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Born at the Crest of the Empire

Thursday, August 10, 2006

"An Honest Broker"

Just send Al Qaeda a Googlemap to my house and be done with it.
Israel has asked the Bush administration to speed delivery of short-range antipersonnel rockets armed with cluster munitions.....

The request for M-26 artillery rockets, which are fired in barrages and carry hundreds of grenade-like bomblets that scatter and explode over a broad area, is likely to be approved shortly....

But some State Department officials have sought to delay the approval because of concerns over the likelihood of civilian casualties....

posted by mikevotes at 10:15 PM

3 Comments:

  • No kidding, doesn't sound like the kind of weapon to keep civilian injuries to a minimum.

    By Blogger Unknown, at 3:09 AM  

  • Likelihood? I'd call it inevitablility. Hey, why don't they get the people in the factory to sign them. Or better yet, their kids!

    By Blogger Praguetwin, at 5:35 AM  

  • Also note that these aren't described as precision guided(although I would bet they are.) Probably State Dept sources against the sale.

    And, cluster munitions are only "anti-personnel" weapons designed to incapacitate or kill anyone within the dispersion radius. Generally, that radius is not controllable, so if the Israelis drop it in a town, there is a high "likelihood of civilian casualties."

    I can't believe that the US is keeping up it's role as supplier so publicly. This isn't like the airlift of munitions when the Israelis were being overrun, this is supplying an aggressor army.

    Mike

    By Blogger mikevotes, at 10:50 AM  

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