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2005-06-17 Iraq-Jordan

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Posted by 3dc 2005-06-17 12:29|| || Front Page|| [11127 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Smells like...victory!

Posted by tu3031 2005-06-17 12:52|| 2005-06-17 12:52|| Front Page Top

#2 The bombs lack stabilising fins, making them far from precise.

They are a freaken area effect weapon moron! You drop them from 20 ft and hit within 10 ft of your aiming point and an area some 75ft is covered. Close enough for government work, as the saying goes.

Buttnugget.

Posted by mmurray821 2005-06-17 12:57|| 2005-06-17 12:57|| Front Page Top

#3 American officials lied to British ministers over the use of "internationally reviled" napalm-type firebombs in Iraq.

Bush lied . . . and bad guys fried!

Posted by Mike 2005-06-17 13:42|| 2005-06-17 13:42|| Front Page Top

#4 The international community hates any weapon aimed at the enemies of freedom.

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2005-06-17 14:38|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2005-06-17 14:38|| Front Page Top

#5 "the gel sticks to structures and to its victims"

VICTIMS?? You mean the guys wearing enemy uniforms, bearing arms, firing from prepared positions at coalition troops? These were not victims, they were TARGETS.

How do they expect anyone to take them seriously when they automatically slant the language of their reporting?

Posted by OldSpook 2005-06-17 14:56|| 2005-06-17 14:56|| Front Page Top

#6 I'm sorry, #2 and #5 together you made the point the article soft-pedaled - "they are far from precise", meaning we aimed them at targets, but napalmed innocent civilians , knowing full well this would happen, and not caring, because these were third-world muslim innocents.

Yeah, that's what they meant to say.

Besides, see #4.

Posted by Bobby 2005-06-17 15:36|| 2005-06-17 15:36|| Front Page Top

#7 These were not victims, they were TARGETS.

Or, to use another appropriate description, "the enemy".

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2005-06-17 16:44|| 2005-06-17 16:44|| Front Page Top

#8 ...a new generation of incendiary weapons, codenamed MK77, in Iraq.

However, the British loved incendiaries. Just ask the citizens of Lubeck, Rostock, Hamburg, Dresden. Now we get all worked up over tactical use in direct combat support as opposed to area bombing of cities.

Posted by Snetle Tholurong5083 2005-06-17 17:29|| 2005-06-17 17:29|| Front Page Top

#9 Four Words: "Sir Arthur 'Bomber' Harris"

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&c2coff=1&q=arthur+bomber+harris

Posted by Parabellum 2005-06-17 19:06|| 2005-06-17 19:06|| Front Page Top

#10 I'm sorry, can someone explain to me the reason I should actually care about the usual load of BS from the left in the House of Commons? Given the recent statments by Senator Durban (sp?) I think we have issues of treason and sedition to deal with here at home without bothering a rip about some socialist loon in London.

Posted by Just About Enough! 2005-06-17 22:59|| 2005-06-17 22:59|| Front Page Top

#11 Just About, a great many Rantburg readers are neither Americans nor resident in the States. Quite a few of them, in fact, are British subjects. So you don't have to care, but they may well do.

Posted by trailing wife 2005-06-17 23:35|| 2005-06-17 23:35|| Front Page Top

#12 Curtis LeMay made Bomber Harris look like a piker.

Posted by mojo">mojo 2005-06-17 23:53|| 2005-06-17 23:53|| Front Page Top

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