Well, it's only brighter if Laura got all the skid marks out.Secret Squirrel said:It's much better when you look on the brighter side of life....
Well, it's only brighter if Laura got all the skid marks out.Secret Squirrel said:It's much better when you look on the brighter side of life....
How can you get the skid marks out when you're continually sh*tting yourself while chuckling like a lemming on international t.v.??Transcend said:Well, it's only brighter if Laura got all the skid marks out.
Well, it seems you were right. We've now got 25 Israeli dead as opposed to 24 yesterday (One civilian died as a result of apparantly 700 new rockets fired into Israel) but the Lebanese death toll is now "More than 250" with about 15, a tiny number of actual Hezbollah in that figure.Secret Squirrel said:After today, the ratio should favor Israel a little more...like say 17:1......
Dude, Iraq is all sorted out. They voted. It's turned back into the garden of Eden. The only reason we still have troops there is that they like it so much they don't want to leave.Changleen said:Oh and just so y'all don't forget, the situation in Iraq is looking GREAT! There's been a large rise in civilian deaths in the last two months with over 6000 killed even according to US figures.
regardless, the sinai return was a cornerpiece for peace.rockwool said:The US bought that peace with tax money. Egypt is the largest beneficiary of US aid bar Israel.
i´d really rather do the reading thing....Actions show different. The apartheid wall is permanent boarders of the future. Settlements stay.
Camp David showed this. It is better explained in thet documentary i've been naging about every body to watch, than I could do with a Minion words.
Please watch it. Its full of facts presented by Jews!
a step forwards were the geneva conventions..rockwool said:We should allways look back at history to see how things were done then. But if it shows that we haven't progressed in our humanity...we need a kick in the dingding.
what do you mean by that, that no targets taking civilian form???Targets take civillian form? What like when they go home to sleep and visit their families every now and then? So when Israeli soldiers go home on leave they are legitimate targets and the others on the bus colateral damage?
thats exactly what am arguing against. of course by current conventions that should not happen.Spoke to a former Swedish Marines Leutenant I know today. Asked him if he was taught in OCS, that the civilians targets that have been hit in Lebanon was legitimate targets or acceptable colateral damage... If you're not positive they are combatants, don't fire.
thats again, what am arguing against.That is non acceptable. If you know you are going to hit civilians and still fire you are committing a war crime!
When the ball is on the green, use a putter. The drive is for other occations.
the bear would have the upper hand if he wore a suit made out of 10 month old breathing babies.You're joking right? You go out bear hunting looking like the terminator and claim that the bears have the upper hand, complain that thay stay in the forrest instead of comming down to the malls parking lot "to fight".
THAT IS EXACTLY MY POINT!!!!!If guerilla warfare was such an advatage Israel would be fighting the same way. Anybody would..
define legality please. and define the legal status of a UN recommendation please.In urban warefare you go knocking, door by door.
Israel has no problem with beeing hindered by legality. 39yrs of bloody occupation has prooven they can't be touched by the UN.
would make no difference. arabs have been pwn3d fair and square (not so actually, even outnumbering israel by 8 to1) before in 48, 67 and 73...Convenient lazy bastards they are going out on foot when they can take their equally as big war machine (4th in the world) and fight the Israelis "mano a mano"...
I'm going to petition the UN tho forbit any type of uprising until the weinies get a propper defence. Sweden can sell it to them too (we need the income to spend on more roundabouts).
besides the undeniable relativism (i´m pretty sure you value your wife/mom/son more than some starving ethiopian dying as we type)Let me clarify that; we're all worth the same. To the nickle.
(that accounts for US citizens too. :eviltongu )
i dont deny there is a morality besides law, or a morality that superposes law.I've noted that you are very acustomed to the law. I'm not, nor do I know what it says in this specific thing. Although, judging from several posts, it seems you would be a lost human beeing without it. There is a right and wrong even if there is no law. Or for that matter someone who can impose it.
There are so many apparent wrongful/uneven/atrocious things going on in this conflict, there should be an alarm ringing in your head.
N8 said:wait, wait.... Sweden has a military???
Is she gonna go over and yap at Hizbollah/Israel like the annoying poodle/lap dog that she is?Silver said:Don't worry. Condi will be over at the end of the week to fix things.
Not sure what she's doing right now...must be something really important. Vital, even.
She's probably shopping for that perfect pair of shoes. You can't end a ME conflict without the perfect shoes.Silver said:Don't worry. Condi will be over at the end of the week to fix things.
Not sure what she's doing right now...must be something really important. Vital, even.
Robert Fisk.Secret Squirrel said:Not that it matters....but Fluff....who was that from?? Obviously an embedded reporter....
Great, the Vichy government of Iraq is wielding its democratic powers.Changleen said:Well, it seems you were right. We've now got 25 Israeli dead as opposed to 24 yesterday (One civilian died as a result of apparantly 700 new rockets fired into Israel) but the Lebanese death toll is now "More than 250" with about 15, a tiny number of actual Hezbollah in that figure.
There's been a large rise in civilian deaths in the last two months with over 6000 killed even according to US figures.
This whole kidnapping story will later show to be just an excuse to a story we've just began to read the prologue of..Changleen said:This is turning into more of a joke everyday. Now Israel are trying to draw Iran in, claiming they were the ones who kidnapped their soldiers, and Bush is pointing fingers at Syria.
Olmert has said it's not stopping 'unil Hezbollah disarm' which is a great unverifiable goal which allows him to continue this as long as he likes. Every Lebanese who picks up a gun will suddenly be Hezbollah the same way every Iraqi who is armed is an Insurgent or AQ.
A nice tactic the nazis wish they had thought of back in the dayz.Silver said:Dude, Iraq is all sorted out. They voted. It's turned back into the garden of Eden.
DaveW said:Pretty damm good one, hense neither germany nor russia being keen about taking them on during WW2.
Well that would certainly explain why they never attacked mainland America! No one in Germany needed any trailer parks or bad weeping mortar.N8 said:Perhaps there was nothing there worth taking..???
N8 said:Perhaps there was nothing there worth taking..???
DaveW said:heh how can you not have seen any "Swedish videos"............:heart: :heart:
N8 said:I guess there is always Seka...
Sure it was. But if the aid was that insignificant to peace, the US would hardly still be paying them of after all those years.ALEXIS_DH said:regardless, the sinai return was a cornerpiece for peace.
i´d really rather do the reading thing....
i tend to prefer readings from .edu sites, rather than theatrical releases from "Arab Film Distribution is handling the theatrical distribution of Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land.".
Yeah, never heard of that before a few days ago and then I thought it was something too "internal" to care about.Old Man G Funk said:Seriously?
Dubya = George W. Bush.rockwool said:Yeah, never heard of that before a few days ago and then I thought it was something too "internal" to care about.
about "mainstream media".rockwool said:Sure it was. But if the aid was that insignificant to peace, the US would hardly still be paying them of after all those years.
It's good that you read. But you watch the news every now and then don't you. Maybe a televised documentary every now and then too? Well I hope you are. I do even though mainstream media is biased towards "the wicked side".
Dismissing a form of medium as somthing that only is suitable for recreational use and uphoding another as better just because its typed, is a conclusion that is too simplified.
What ever your prefered medium of information is, it is imperative that you have different sources of information that have an opposite stand on things, so that you, your selfe, can reflect and later come to a conclussion of your own and not accepting having one handed to you by the "side" you prefer.
I find it remarkable that you, who seem to be an educated person, dismiss something without having heard its content. Imagine a jury not listening to a person because of them beeing judgemental about the way he looks..
If you have a documentary that give facts to your point of view, please share it.
Surely most reasonable humans must be finding Israel's actions unnacceptable by now.UN rights head sees possible Mideast war crimes
GENEVA (Reuters) - The scale of killing and maiming of civilians in Lebanon, Israel and the Palestinian territory of Gaza could constitute war crimes, the United Nations human rights chief said on Wednesday.
U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour said international humanitarian law was clear on the need to protect non-combatants in any conflict. "This obligation is also expressed in international criminal law, which defines war crimes and crimes against humanity," she said.
"The scale of the killings in the region, and their predictability, could engage the personal criminal responsibility of those involved, particularly those in a position of command and control," she said, without directly accusing anyone.
In a statement, Arbour expressed "grave concern over the continued killing and maiming of civilians in Lebanon, Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory".
Arbour, a former Canadian Supreme Court judge and war crimes prosecutor, said the "indiscriminate shelling" of cities and the bombing of sites where civilians would suffer were unacceptable.
Israeli air strikes have accounted for most of the 293 deaths in Lebanon in the eight-day-old war which began after Hizbollah guerrillas kidnapped two Israeli soldiers.
The Lebanese Shi'ite militia has rained rockets down on northern Israeli towns and villages. Twenty-nine Israelis have died in the violence.
STRETCHED RULES
Israel's offensive in Lebanon has coincided with a three-week-old push into the Gaza Strip to retrieve another soldier, seized by Palestinian militants on June 25.
In a separate statement, the U.N. special envoy on the right to health said Israel's destruction of Gaza's only power station could constitute a war crime and should be investigated.
New Zealander Paul Hunt said lack of power had caused a serious water shortage and affected sewage disposal for tens of thousands of households in the Gaza Strip. Reported cases of diarrhoea had risen 163 percent compared with last year, he added.
As international concern mounted for civilians caught up in the bloodshed, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) suggested that Israel had stretched the agreed rules of war with its air and land operations in Lebanon.
The Swiss-based body, the recognised guardian of the Geneva Conventions on the conduct of war, said it had told the Israelis and Hizbollah that both must avoid targeting civilians.
Under the Conventions, first formulated after World War One and expanded after World War Two, countries involved in international conflicts are obliged to observe measure in their response to actions by an opposing side.
"The ICRC reminds the parties to the conflict that the obligation to distinguish between civilians and civilian objects, on the one hand, and military objectives, on the other, is at the core of international humanitarian law and must be complied with at all times," it said in a statement.
http://www.ridemonkey.com/forums/showthread.php?t=161496ridetoofast said:for all you frother haters...put this in your pipe and smoke it! its from a 'frother' that you so love to hate...
Where are the Christians?
When Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert unleashed his navy and air force on Lebanon, accusing that tiny nation of an "act of war," the last pillar of Bush's Middle East policy collapsed.
First came capitulation on the Bush Doctrine, as Pyongyang and Tehran defied Bush's dictum: The world's worst regimes will not be allowed to acquire the world's worst weapons. Then came suspension of the democracy crusade as Islamic militants exploited free elections to advance to power and office in Egypt, Lebanon, Gaza, the West Bank, Iraq and Iran.
Now, Israel's rampage against a defenseless Lebanon smashing airport runways, fuel tanks, power plants, gas stations, lighthouses, bridges, roads and the occasional refugee convoy has exposed Bush's folly in subcontracting U.S. policy out to Tel Aviv, thus making Israel the custodian of our reputation and interests in the Middle East.
The Lebanon that Israel, with Bush's blessing, is smashing up has a pro-American government, heretofore considered a shining example of his democracy crusade. Yet, asked in St. Petersburg if he would urge Israel to use restraint in its airstrikes, Bush sounded less like the leader of the Free World than some bellicose city councilman from Brooklyn Heights.
What Israel is up to was described by its army chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Dan Halutz, when he threatened to "turn back the clock in Lebanon 20 years."
Olmert seized upon Hezbollah's capture of two Israeli soldiers to unleash the IDF in a pre-planned attack to make the Lebanese people suffer until the Lebanese government disarms Hezbollah, a task the Israeli army could not accomplish in 18 years of occupation.
Israel is doing the same to the Palestinians. To punish these people for the crime of electing Hamas, Olmert imposed an economic blockade of Gaza and the West Bank and withheld the $50 million in monthly tax and customs receipts due the Palestinians.
Then, Israel instructed the United States to terminate all aid to the Palestinian Authority, though Bush himself had called for the elections and for the participation of Hamas. Our Crawford cowboy meekly complied.
The predictable result: Fatah and Hamas fell to fratricidal fighting, and Hamas militants began launching Qassam rockets over the fence from Gaza into Israel. Hamas then tunneled into Israel, killed two soldiers, captured one, took him back into Gaza and demanded a prisoner exchange.
Israel's response was to abduct half of the Palestinian cabinet and parliament and blow up a $50 million U.S.-insured power plant. That cut off electricity for half a million Palestinians. Their food spoiled, their water could not be purified, and their families sweltered in the summer heat of the Gaza desert. One family of seven was wiped out on a beach by what the IDF assures us was an errant artillery shell.
Let it be said: Israel has a right to defend herself, a right to counter-attack against Hezbollah and Hamas, a right to clean out bases from which Katyusha or Qassam rockets are being fired and a right to occupy land from which attacks are mounted on her people.
But what Israel is doing is imposing deliberate suffering on civilians, collective punishment on innocent people, to force them to do something they are powerless to do: disarm the gunmen among them. Such a policy violates international law and comports neither with our values nor our interests. It is un-American and un-Christian.
But where are the Christians? Why is Pope Benedict virtually alone among Christian leaders to have spoken out against what is being done to Lebanese Christians and Muslims?
When al-Qaida captured two U.S. soldiers and barbarically butchered them, the U.S. Army did not smash power plants across the Sunni Triangle. Why then is Bush not only silent but openly supportive when Israelis do this?
Democrats attack Bush for crimes of which he is not guilty, including Haditha and Abu Ghraib. Why are they, too, silent when Israel pursues a conscious policy of collective punishment of innocent peoples?
Britain's diplomatic goal in two world wars was to bring the naive cousins in, to "pull their chestnuts out of the fire." Israel and her paid and pro-bono agents here appear determined to expand the Iraq war into Syria and Iran, and have America fight and finish all of Israel's enemies.
That Tel Aviv is maneuvering us to fight its wars is understandable. That Americans are ignorant of, or complicit in this, is deplorable.
Already, Bush is ranting about Syria being behind the Hezbollah capture of the Israeli soldiers. But where is the proof?
Who is whispering in his ear? The same people who told him Iraq was maybe months away from an atom bomb, that an invasion would be a "cakewalk," that he would be Churchill, that U.S. troops would be greeted with candy and flowers, that democracy would break out across the region, that Palestinians and Israelis would then sit down and make peace?
How much must America pay for the education of this man?
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=51116
ridetoofast said:for all you frother haters...put this in your pipe and smoke it! its from a 'frother' that you so love to hate...http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=51116
I thought he was describing the Shabra and Shatila masacres in 1982...not sure.fluff said:That incident was in 1996.
Is there a story behind that nick?Old Man G Funk said:Dubya = George W. Bush.
rockwool said:That article ridetoofast and N8 posted earlier, was that by Pat Buchanan?!! I'm speachless.
I thought he was describing the Shabra and Shatila masacres in 1982...not sure. First line of the article....Qana, southern Lebanon - It was a massacre. Not since Sabra and Chatila had I seen the innocent slaughtered like this
Is there a story behind that nick?Yes....Vernacular for his middle initial....'W' (Pronounced 'Double U') = Dubya (
Yup, it's how we pronounce it here in the nukulur age.rockwool said:Is there a story behind that nick?