From: "Rich Gauszka" 

Sorry Mark - Israel isn't our 51st State. You do know that's it's not an
either or scenario? Both sides are capable of - and do take part in - some
really despicable actions.


"Mark"  wrote in message
news:44c6edd9$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> Yea, Remember the "Maine" too...  wrong, we're always conspiratorial, and we should always defer to the
> lame-brained BS that eminates from the UN, and we should get out our
> prayer rugs toot sweet>
>
>
> "Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
> news:44c6e8fa$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> well lets see - unarmed observers in a well marked post ( for years )
>> were targeted and blown up. Sure has signs of deliberate for me. Just
>> like a US navy vessel in international waters that was machine gunned for
>> hours - the Israelis expressed 'regret' at that also.
>>
>>
>>
>> "Mark"  wrote in message
>> news:44c6e636$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>> Nope, I'm saying if the UN was worth anything at all, they'd have done
>>> what they said they'd do lo so many years ago. They didn't, they
>>> *caused* this war, and if they suffer collateral damage because of it,
>>> it's their own fecklessness that brought it on. >> second that their position was deliberately targeted, but you seem to
>>> take them at their feckless word that it was -- why? Why believe them?,
>>> what have they done for the world lately, or ever?>
>>>
>>> "Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
>>> news:44c6e31e$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>>> So I guess it's ok with you to purposely kill  observers 
from China,
>>>> Finland, Austria and Canada just as long as they were from the UN?
>>>>
>>>> Got to watch out for those 'lame' Red Cross vans now?
>>>>
>>>>
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20060724/israel_fighti
ng_060725/20060725?hub=CTVNewsAt11
>>>>
>>>> But, Sunil Ram, a defence and security analyst, told CTV
Newsnet that
>>>> the Israelis had shelled the base at least 14 times before
bombing it
>>>> with what was clearly a guided bomb.
>>>>
>>>> UN posts like this are very well marked. The Israelis knew it was
>>>> there; it's been there for years.
>>>> "But then when the Indians tried to send a rescue
mission in there,
>>>> they then shelled the troops who were trying to get to the
post. So how
>>>> much more deliberate do you want it to be?"
>>>>
>>>> On Monday, vans marked with Red Crosses had come under fire.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> "Mark"  wrote in message
>>>> news:44c6de44$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>>>>I can't think of any reason to believe anything the UN
says, especially
>>>>>Kofi. What are UN "observers" still doing
there anyway? Weren't those
>>>>>same lame "observers" that have been
twiddling their thumbs since 1978
>>>>>("interim" force indeed) supposed to be
disarming Hizzbullah starting 6
>>>>>years ago rather than "observing"? >>>>promised?, would we be where we are, would those 4
"observers" be
>>>>>dead?>
>>>>>
>>>>> "Rich Gauszka" 
wrote in message
>>>>> news:44c6c3cc{at}w3.nls.net...
>>>>>> The UN should have learned from the lessons of the
USS Liberty. The
>>>>>> Israelis don't like observers and will purposely target them
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=1084162006
>>>>>>
>>>>>> AN ISRAELI air raid in south Lebanon killed four UN military
>>>>>> observers yesterday, in an attack that Kofi Annan,
the United Nations
>>>>>> secretary-general, said was "apparently
deliberate".
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The four observers were part of the UN
peacekeeping mission, UN and
>>>>>> Lebanese officials said.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Speaking after yesterday's attack on the UN site,
Milos Strugar, a
>>>>>> spokesman for the UNIFIL peacekeeping force, said:
"One aerial bomb
>>>>>> directly impacted the building and shelter in the
base of the United
>>>>>> Nations Observer Group in Lebanon in the area of
Khiyam."
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Mr Strugar said attacks had continued in the area
as rescuers
>>>>>> attempted to reach the wounded.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "There were 14 other incidents of firing
close to this position in
>>>>>> the afternoon from the Israeli side, and the
firing continued during
>>>>>> the rescue operation," he added.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In a statement issued at UN headquarters in New
York, Mr Annan said:
>>>>>> "I am shocked and deeply distressed by the
apparently deliberate
>>>>>> targeting by Israeli defence forces of a UN
observer post in southern
>>>>>> Lebanon.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "This co-ordinated artillery and aerial
attack on a long-established
>>>>>> and clearly marked UN post at Khiyam occurred
despite personal
>>>>>> assurances given to me by prime minister Ehud Olmert that UN
>>>>>> positions would be spared Israeli fire," Mr
Annan added.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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