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2006-10-19 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Lebanon/Israel: Hezbollah Hit Israel with Cluster Munitions During Conflict

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Posted by anonymous5089 2006-10-19 08:07|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Oh, for the love of small submunitions... Hezbollah's offenses against decency and dignity has nothing to do with the weapons used and everything to do with the intentions in the use thereof. Who cares if they used something roughly classifiable as cluster munitions? It's because they weren't attempting any sort of military use, but simply attacking in hopes of civilian slaughter, that they ought to be denounced.

Miserable technology-obsessed trans-national halfwits...

Posted by Mitch H.">Mitch H. 2006-10-19 08:23|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]">[http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2006-10-19 08:23|| Front Page Top

#2 Yes, but it pulls the carpet out of under the feet of those who accuse Israel of war crimes and "disproportionate" response, much more than the "simple" ball-bearing filled rockets.

Posted by anonymous5089 2006-10-19 08:25|| 2006-10-19 08:25|| Front Page Top

#3 Won't make a difference. Hezbollah will get a pass or a stern finger-wag at worst.

The objective is to keep certain others from having them, hence the report's timing.

Posted by Pappy 2006-10-19 10:02|| 2006-10-19 10:02|| Front Page Top

#4 This is the first time that Hezbollah's use of these controversial weapons has been confirmed.

It's a good thing they never used controversial weapons before. :|

Good Lord, the Media and HRW are so incredibly dense. The whole cluster-munition meme is as retarded as the WP and DU contraversy.

:(

Posted by Anon4021 2006-10-19 12:03|| 2006-10-19 12:03|| Front Page Top

#5 Just pick up the flags. Offsetting penalties.

Posted by plainslow 2006-10-19 12:52|| 2006-10-19 12:52|| Front Page Top

#6 The objection to cluster bombs will fade away, now that the Third World is using them against the First.

Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford 2006-10-19 13:16|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2006-10-19 13:16|| Front Page Top

#7 The objection to cluster bombs will fade away, now that the Third World is using them against the First.

IIRC, the muslim world has about 4x more men in fighting age than the West... and more generally speaking, western armies tend to be high-tech/low manpower, while third world (and before them, soviet/chicom) ones are mostly high manpower/lower tech.

So, cluster munitions are specifically to counter the ennemy numerical advantage... and in all tranzi/suicidalist logic, they MUST be banned, in the name of Good, of course. Anyway, the westerners must always fight by the book, even followng non-existent tranzis wishy-wishy "laws", while the non-westerner is free to do as he wishes, because he's Oppressed and all.

Posted by anonymous5089 2006-10-19 16:19|| 2006-10-19 16:19|| Front Page Top

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