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to: Gary Britt
from: Rich Gauszka
date: 2006-08-17 17:46:40
subject: Re: Israelis did use CBU...

From: "Rich Gauszka" 

Nope - one blames the one that uses the weapons indiscriminately. Quite
frankly I just see a bunch of thugs going at each other


"Gary Britt"  wrote in message
news:44e4e25a$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> Blame Hizbollah for making them unwilling parts of the Hizbollah defense
> shield.  Hizbollah hides among civilians on purpose to cause civilian
> casualties.  They turn those locations that include civilians into
> military targets.  Got a problem call Hizbollah.
>
> Gary
>
> "Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
> news:44e4c2e3$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> So the 1996 Qana massacre of civilians was caused by Israeli pop tarts?
>>
>> I reckon one can count the massacre of the crew of the USS Liberty a
>> military target
>>
>> How about
>>
>> http://www.indymedia.ie/article/77507
>> Researchers on the ground in Lebanon confirmed that a cluster munitions
>> attack on the village of Blida on July 19 killed one and wounded at least
>> 12 civilians, including seven children. Human Rights Watch researchers
>> also photographed cluster munitions in the arsenal of Israeli artillery
>> teams on the Israel-Lebanon border.
>>
>> According to eyewitnesses and survivors of the attack interviewed by
>> Human Rights Watch, Israel fired several artillery-fired cluster
>> munitions at Blida around 3 p.m. on July 19. The witnesses described how
>> the artillery shells dropped hundreds of cluster submunitions on the
>> village. They clearly described the submunitions as smaller projectiles
>> that emerged from their larger shells.
>>
>> ----------
>> There are monsters on either side of the conflict
>>
>> "Gary Britt"  wrote in message
>> news:44e4b726$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>> The difference being that Israel uses theirs on military targets and
>>> Hizbollah always uses theirs on purely civilian targets.
>>>
>>> Gary
>>>
>>> "Robert G Lewis"  wrote
in message
>>> news:44e4a703$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>>> To me it depends on the context.  In describing an actual event then
>>>> accuracy is important.
>>>>
>>>> Hezbollah uses inaccurate missiles loaded with Ball bearings. Israel
>>>> uses
>>>> Bombs with bomblets inside. One has little chance of killing anyone
>>>> after it
>>>> has gone off, the other does have the chance of unexploded bomblets
>>>> killing
>>>> people well after the initial explosion. Were I going into an area
>>>> where the
>>>> munitions had been used I'd definitely want to know which
one was used
>>>> .
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> "Dave Ings"  wrote in message
>>>> news:44e49ede{at}w3.nls.net...
>>>>> Although Adam has taken me to task about it in the
past :-) I have a
>>>>> really hard time getting excited about whether deadly
weapon A is more
>>>>> lethal and less moral to use in battle than deadly weapon B.
>>>>>
>>>>> The net result is the same within an order of
magnitude - too many
>>>>> people
>>>>> die.
>>>>> --
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Dave Ings,
>>>>> Toronto, Canada
>>>>>
>>>>> "Robert G Lewis"
 wrote in message
>>>>> news:44e49bb1$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>>>>> How do you define Cluster Bomb ?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "Gary Britt" 
wrote in message
>>>>>> news:44e48abe{at}w3.nls.net...
>>>>>>> Hizbollah used cluster bombs in rockets fired
at Israel.  Does so
>>>>>>> all
>>>>>>> the time.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Gary
>>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>

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