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To: Ichy Smith who wrote (198117)	8/19/2006 9:25:30 AM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

You're a moron itchy. The Israeli anti-personell weapons are much better at killing PEOPLE (who are as often as not civilians) than the crude Hezbo crap. After all, WE make them, and we make the best killing shells and warheads in the world! We're #1! msnbc.msn.com "Human Rights Watch photographed piles of cluster artillery shells on the border with Lebanon this week after NEWSWEEK reported that an Israeli reservist said artillery units had begun using the controversial armaments to destroy Hizbullah rocket launchers. (Human Rights Watch field workers crawled through a meadow and used long-range lenses to photograph an artillery position in northern Israel from where the munitions were being fired. Israel won’t comment on the weapons it is using in Lebanon.) Cluster shells are large munitions that explode in the air, scattering hundreds of small bomblets across a wide radius... But because of their wide dispersal, cluster munitions tend to cause more civilian casualties than other armaments. And they have a high dud rate, which means civilians might set off the unexploded bomblets months or years after the end of fighting. Israel, under pressure from the United States, had not used cluster munitions in Lebanon since 1982. But the United States itself has made wide use of clusters in Kosovo and Iraq, setting back efforts to impose an international ban. “We came to the conclusion that the use of cluster munitions caused more civilian casualties than any other weapons system in Iraq during the three weeks of major fighting,” says Steve Goose, who directs the arms division of Human Rights Watch."

To: Ichy Smith who wrote (198117)	8/19/2006 10:18:03 AM
From: michael97123	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

This war was an eye opener once again. The US and Israel try to fight wars carefully and get blasted anyway for any collateral damage that occurs. Why bother when the opponents in iraq suicide bomb anyone and everyone and while the hizbolla shoots bomb bullets at civilian areas intentionally. 800 lebanese died in this war, so if the israelis paid less attention it would have been 1600 but this wouldnt make sarman yelp any louder. Hell if the israelis killed 5 civilians, would sarman yelp any less?????