For the price of 250 cheap rockets Israel is spending tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars.

My, my 2wolves, your on the penny today. Who else is gonna feed all those poor contractors and their families. Peace sucks, war is paying!

And who's "winning"?

Wonder how many of those rockets were packed with ball bearings in violation of the geneva convention and aimed at residential areas?

If this was al Farque it would have the [sad] tag.

goeniegoegoe

NMD is already a jobs program for PhD's. You want more welfare? Hmmmm....

WId's

Weapons of Inefficient Destruction

If Hezbollah had the advanced weapons that Israel had, they would be using them too. When you are in combat, you use what capabilities you have and all Hezbollah is equiped with are relatively short range inaccurate missiles. If they had precision guided munitions, I am sure they would focus on targeting military significant assets. Awww, who am I kidding, they would be blowing up shopping malls, hospitals, orphanages, synagogues, or bomb shelters.

Major kudos to submitter for good use of heretofore

FYI The Israeli that was killed was an Arab-Israeli.

flaEsq: Wonder how many of those rockets were packed with ball bearings


That would be all of them, Bob.

To be fair, they are the Katyusha rockets first seen in the second world war. This rocket design is over 60 years old with little changes. The bottle rockets you fired off when you were a kid had more guidance systems build into them.

Behold the bottle rocket- with the latest in plastic fin technology.

/was never a kid

They don't quite seem like a model of efficiency.

Missles, Rockets, Bombs, Guns.... all weapons used by pussies who are too scared to get bloody and FIGHT with their FISTS. I hope everyone who uses a weapon gets crotch cancer. HA!

Hooray ceasefire!

Don't forget the video of the Ohio policeman shooting at the guys and the white Suburban as comedian Ron White says at "point blank range" for hysteric marksmanship

Now THAT'S a funny headline!

Summarizes the whole situation over there.

I've seen model rocketry clubs do more impressive things than this.

Hezbollah probably spent less on those 250 rockets killing that one Israeli than Israel spent killing one Hezbollah fighter.

LukeA: Hezbollah probably spent less on those 250 rockets killing that one Israeli than Israel spent killing one Hezbollah fighter.


Hezbollah probably didn't spend any money on the rockets. They were probably donated by Iran using money generated from selling oil to the west and to China.

This saying has never been more appropriate when talking about 250 rockets needed to kill one person; which is, it's not the voltage, but the amps !!!

This is the big threat to Israel's existence? Why is Israel such a giant pussy? I mean, look, more Israelis have been born in the last three weeks than Hezbollah has killed!

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said the cease-fire agreement would ensure that "Hezbollah won't continue to exist as a state within a state."

The rhetoric sounds like Afghanistan and the Taliban part 2.

And once again, no one in the US who doesn't live in New York cares about what happens in Israel.

jmr61

Massachusetts resident, have online friends there, don't like seeing democracies annhilated.

Randomino
Just because your enemy is horribly inefficient at killing you doesn't mean their attempts to do so should be ignored. They might get better, and they certainly want to.

jmr61,
You can debate the relative amount of 'caring' going on, but most of the US is firmly on the side of Israel. Go read a poll that wasn't sponsored by CAIR.

Erm, how many Hizbollah terrorists has Israel killed?

"We have killed eleventy thousand peeps."
"Great! How many of them are certified Hizbollah?"
"Erm...."

Well, in addition to the one death, there were 53 injuries from those rockets (although only two were seriously hurt).

But yeah, Hezbollah's rocket's suck ass. Doesn't mean one can ignore them, though.

Hizbollah wants to kill as many Isreali civilians as possible, they have made this known, yet they have only killed 30.

Isreal claims to not want to kill any Lebanese civilians, they have made this known, yet they have killed almost 800.

dj245: To be fair, they are the Katyusha rockets first seen in the second world war.

Why is it that nearly every news report names the specific make and model of Hezbollah weaponry, while not mentioning what type of artillery the IDF uses?

/seriously curious
//not sure what to make of it

importedbeer
If Hizbollah issued 'certificates' and maybe wore uniforms, this would be over already.

I don't think the rocket-bombs in 1984 killed that many people, either.

/Just sayin'

"2006-08-13 05:34:20 PM importedbeer

Erm, how many Hizbollah terrorists has Israel killed?

"We have killed eleventy thousand peeps."
"Great! How many of them are certified Hizbollah?"
"Erm....""

See, that's the problem. It's not like Hezbollah issues membership cards. Determining who is Hezbollah and who is civilian is difficult. Also, it is known that Hezbollah launches attacks from civilian targets, so when Israel fights back at thier attackers, they kill a bunch of children plus the Hezbollah fighter.

That being said, Israel should have staged the ground invasion two weeks ago and been a little less trigger happy with airstrikes in the north.

UKerupt,
Hizbollah wants to kill as many Isreali civilians as possible, they have made this known, yet they have only killed 30.

Isreal claims to not want to kill any Lebanese civilians, they have made this known, yet they have killed almost 800.


First, Hizbollah wears no uniforms and purposely operates in civilian areas. Counting who is 'civillian' and who is 'Hizbollah' in this situation is near impossible and that's exactly how Hizbollah wants it

Second, it's because the Israelis are alot better at killing than Hizbollah is. The fact that Hizbollah/Lebanon is taking the biggest beating does not mean that they don't deserve it.

Well done toraque. You've Orwell'd the thread.
Time to go home!

underkill?

Why has the IDF, with its precision laser-guided bombs, killed over 1000 civilians in Lebanon while Hezbollah, with its "accurate within a mile" weapons has killed less than 100 (30-40 of which are actually IDF)?

I'm hoping that we see the international community look into war crimes on behalf of Israel. The US isn't standing behind Israel on principle, it's standing behind Isreal because the bible tells us so. It's ridiculous and it's no wonder the international community frowns on US policy (and unfortunately on the US population by association).

Islam is a death cult.

Hardly surprising, not like they are using top of the line gear...

Daedalus27 If they had precision guided munitions, I am sure they would focus on targeting military significant assets.

LOL, you're clueless!

2wolves - "For the price of 250 cheap rockets Israel is spending tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars."

ehhh... nope. The United States of America is spending hundreds of millions of dollars for isreal to fight. Every single peice of Isreali military equipment is paid for with American tax-dollars.

American bullets. American bombs. American bulldozers.

A Lebanese family has their home leveled by an Isreali airstike, as the youngest son didgs through the rubble, next to his mother's crushed, decapitated head is a peice of shredded metal from the bomb that is stamped, "MADE IN USA"

/yea, i'd be ready to fight then too

gorfie

Why has the IDF, with its precision laser-guided bombs, killed over 1000 civilians in Lebanon while Hezbollah, with its "accurate within a mile" weapons has killed less than 100 (30-40 of which are actually IDF)?

Because, as the IDF says, Hizbollah terrorists are women, children, and babies.

Anyone who disagrees is an Anti-Semite.

The only reason there haven't been more deaths is that the Israelis are making use of their bunkers. There has been a fairly large amount of building damage, and Israel can't sit in its bunkers for very long without killing off its economy - something which Hezbollah on the other side doesn't really worry about, since Lebanon is expendable.

Israel only wins if all of Hezbollah is dead. Hezbollah wins if the Israelis are too afraid to leave their bunkers. I don't know about you, but having 250 rockets fired at me - even inaccurate ones - would make me worry about going outside.

Keep in mind that Hezbollah is more the scale of a small army than a terrorist organization, one that has advanced rockets (albeit ones they aren't allowed to fire yet) and anti-tank missiles. And they're fighting on their own ground, in a country that covertly supports them. You can bomb and shell the crap out of the enemy, but at the end it's always the ground troops that have to do the bulk of the work. You can't really fault Israel for not having stopped Hezbollah by now, when internal and external pressures have prevented them from just moving in their army and killing all the adult males who weren't smart enough to leave.

Wow, I can feel the heat from the flames from this thread from my monitor.

/good thing I strong air conditioning

gorfie: Why has the IDF, with its precision laser-guided bombs, killed over 1000 civilians in Lebanon while Hezbollah, with its "accurate within a mile" weapons has killed less than 100 (30-40 of which are actually IDF)?

1. Because the IDF is actually hitting their targets. The problem is, the target happens to be next to an apartment building.
Placed there on purpose and by design of Hezbollah.

2. Because an awful lot of Israelis are in bomb shelters, making the Hez rockets even less efficient.

Nice work qqqq you've intuitively grasped the entire ethos of a worldwide religion with over a billion worldwide adherents. All in less than 10 words. Stunning.

UK schools?

UKerupt said
"for isreal to fight."

UKerupt, it is spelled Israel. Y^ou smell like a poseur. Is it the big bag of pig ears under your belief system?

They must be seriously pissed off

/runs
//hides
///dnrtfa