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2003-04-02 Iraq

Baghdad: B-52s drop new cluster bombs on Iraqi tanks

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Posted by Steve 2003-04-02 09:58 am|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Let lefty scream. In fact, add napalm to the SFW's and really get them screaming.

Posted by tu3031 2003-04-02 10:15:20|| 2003-04-02 10:15:20|| Front Page Top

#2 ~~Reactionary wife-beaters~~ Mennonites and ~~matriarchal power-cultists~~ Quakers in particular have an organized campaign to outlaw cluster bombs. This depends crucially on a variety of half-truths, mythical assumptions, and outright lies about the nature of these weapons. They also support a campaign to ban aerial bombing in general, but go out of their way to justify Palestinian and other suicide bombers. To qualify as brutal and unlawful to these people, it seems only that a weapon must provide a decisive advantage against terrorist and totalitarian revolutionary forces.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2003-04-02 11:52:31|| [www.nuclearspace.com] 2003-04-02 11:52:31|| Front Page Top

#3 Personally, I'm in favor of outlawing the crossbow. Fiendish engine of war.

Posted by Dreadnought 2003-04-02 12:23:15|| 2003-04-02 12:23:15|| Front Page Top

#4 "...an explosively formed penetrator fires at the heat source."

Very slick, a little metal plate is transformed into a pointy bit by explosive formation. Boom.

Posted by mojo 2003-04-02 12:30:04|| 2003-04-02 12:30:04|| Front Page Top

#5 Dreadnought - Don't forget the sharp stick. Do you know how many people are injured by sharp sticks every year? It's terrible. Terrible. Something must be done...

Posted by Fred 2003-04-02 12:40:53|| 2003-04-02 12:40:53|| Front Page Top

#6 and no running with scissors either

Posted by Frank G 2003-04-02 13:26:39|| 2003-04-02 13:26:39|| Front Page Top

#7 Wadded up paper can also be quite injurious when hurled with sufficient force.

Posted by Dreadnought 2003-04-02 13:51:20|| 2003-04-02 13:51:20|| Front Page Top

#8 These munitions aren't all that new. I remember reading about that type of weapon back in the late 80s, launched as a missle over advancing Soviet tank columns. The little submunitions are the size of tuna cans and have a little fin sticking out that makes them wobble as they spin and drop to the ground. The infrared scanner in the base thereby scans in an spiral pattern and fires at the first heat source it sees. The amazing part is how the projectile somehow forms itself form a lense shape to an arrow head shape by the heat and pressure of the detonation.

Posted by John 2003-04-02 19:40:27|| 2003-04-02 19:40:27|| Front Page Top

#9 I find Indian burns to be quite painful.

Posted by Brew 2003-04-02 23:50:25|| 2003-04-02 23:50:25|| Front Page Top

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