>...(Israel) wants to live in peace (long bleat about how Israel was "defending" itself by dropping a million plus cluster bombs on civilian population centers in southern Lebanon in August 2006)
Live in peace..? When has Israel EVER existed peacefully..?! Does Israel recognize the right of its neighbors to exist?! Put down the Kool-Aid, pal... you've been brainwashed since birth.
ANY OTHER COUNTRY ON EARTH would be thoroughly damned for pulling half the shit Israel gets away with. I don't really give a fuck what they do, BUT THEY'RE DOING IT ON US TAX MONEY AND WE'RE FUCKING B-R-O-K-E!!! So we're going to borrow another five billion from China to give to Israel..???? So they can buy our weapons, pretty much the only thing we mfg here any more, and bribe our politicians through AIPAC, JINSA, et al to keep that "foreign aid" money coming?!?!??!??!
WTF? Israel does not need foreign aid and has WAAAAAAAAY too much influence in Washington. Research it on your own. Start with the USS Liberty. Consider that AIPAC is staging a massive call-in this spring trying to get President Dagnabit to release convicted Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard. His espionage undermined the entire US nuclear deterrent strategy, literally trillions of dollars of defense, he sold the US out. Lovely! With friends like Israel...
Oh, one more thing: Israel wanted the latest and greatest cluster bomb model from the US military, but we told them they had to use their remaining stock up first. So where did they drop the million plus cluster bombs? Southern Lebanon! AFTER THE CEASE FIRE WAS SIGNED!!! Sweet, eh?
Hey, remember that UN observation post the Israelis bombed? And those Lebanese ambulances with missile rounds fired through the red crosses on the tops? NICE WORK, BOYS!
Oh, and there was the recent Oslo conference seeking to ban cluster bombs, modeled on the Ottowa conference on land mine prohibition some time ago (97?). The US and Israel were two noteable countries which chose not to attend!
Cluster bombs are immoral and ought to be illegal.
