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2006-08-16 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

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Posted by Steve White 2006-08-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Only one way to survive this, full bore ground invasion and overtake entire country of Lebanon. Conduct a Nuremberg trial on all government officals complicit with aiding Nasalboy (presumbly residing comfortably in Iran)

Posted by Captain America 2006-08-16 00:34|| 2006-08-16 00:34|| Front Page Top

#2 Sorry David, this is nonsense. Israel has been 'compromising its vital interests' repeatedly since at least 1990 and getting jack. Yet it still exists.

Hezbollah's 'victory' of having their area occupied, their fighters killed, and their entire deterrent force exposed as a joke may play in the Arab street. And if Hezzie takes over Lebanon, good. They have it defacto now, lets remove the empty suit they get to hide behind whenever convenient.

Posted by Oldcat 2006-08-16 11:30|| 2006-08-16 11:30|| Front Page Top

#3 Israel will survive this and replace Olmert with a sock puppet.
I don't think the UN can survive it, however. Every day, they fumble away and the Hezbs return to their bunkers fully rearmed. The UN exposes themselves as a collection of Kofi Annons. Blandly ineffective at their best, and blatantly misled at their worst. The UN is a great place for old democraps to go. Ha

Posted by wxjames 2006-08-16 11:36|| 2006-08-16 11:36|| Front Page Top

#4 they had seriously underestimated the degree to which Hezbollah were dug in, and the amount of explosive force it would take to dislodge them.

Sounds to me like a lame-ass excuse for a sorry display of political ineptitude and poor military execution. To be fair, Israel, as always, was severely hamstrung with all the Geo-Political correctness on this one. But if they continue to assert that they were somehow caught off-guard theres a good chance they might actually begin to believe it. And that folks would spell disaster for the coming show.

Posted by DepotGuy 2006-08-16 11:56|| 2006-08-16 11:56|| Front Page Top

#5 1970es Oldcat.

Posted by gromgoru 2006-08-16 12:01|| 2006-08-16 12:01|| Front Page Top

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