"Subject: RE: BS: Israel used cluster bombs
From: GUEST,Nick - PM
Date: 22 Aug 06 - 05:55 PM

1) "The cluster bomb does NOT destroy a target, it sanitises an AREA"

Interesting term. They sanitise an area. Hmm. Sanitise: to clean, ethnically cleanse maybe?"

Not actually my words, Nick, but taken from a TV series called Future Weapons. They were used by an American officer to describe the purpose of Cluster Bombs, who was quite proudly proclaiming that nothing living would survive within their effective range.



"Subject: RE: BS: Israel used cluster bombs
From: robomatic - PM
Date: 24 Aug 06 - 01:23 PM

In war, the first casualty is the truth.

There is no doubt as to who started it: Hezbollah (and Hamas in Gaza)."

No doubt in whose mind, Robo?

There were reports that, the night before the "kidnap" of the two Israeli soldiers, there was a similar incident in which Israeli troops crossed the Lebanese border and "detained" two Hezbollah "suspects.

Interesting difference in terminology, don't you think?

They kidnap, we detain!

Anyone who takes sides in this is, IMHO, missing the point. There is NO high moral ground being occupied here folks.

Hezbollah and the Israeli government and military are equally culpable, and equally unreasonable. They deserve each other, and I just wish they could destroy themselves without all the innocent bystanders getting hurt.

Don T.