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2004-09-07 Israel-Palestine

Israeli spy satellite ditches after takeoff

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Posted by Steve White 2004-09-07 12:36:49 AM|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I wonder how much French help Iran is getting with it's missle program? I wouldn't put it past Chiriac after all he was a peddler of all things nuclear as well in the past and wants to be a counterweight agaisnt US intersts. That makes him natural allies with Iran.

The French our "friends"
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* Reports out of France indicate the Chirac government is behind the anti-American demonstrations there, and that references to the coalition troops as "Anglo-American" forces and "Anglo-American liberalism" are terms borrowed from Vichy propaganda during the Hitler occupation.

* Not only have French radicals desecrated the monument at Etaples honoring 11,000 "Anglo-American" soldiers who died to free France, but according to a poll in Le Monde 25 percent of Frenchmen wanted an outright Iraqi victory over the United States and United Kingdom.

* Slogans were painted on the Etaples monument at the Channel coastal town declaring of the dead Americans and Brits whose graves stretch to the horizon: "Dig up your rubbish, they are soiling our land."

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2004-09-07 5:28:31 AM|| 2004-09-07 5:28:31 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Just read the whole thing, folks. This guy is from the NYT school of Duranty. Love the scare quotes around war on terror. BTW, is it possible to "land" a satellite "in the sea" (Med., Red, or Black?) after its launch has been aborted?

In any case, Israel, keep trying.

Posted by chicago mike 2004-09-07 10:10:29 AM|| 2004-09-07 10:10:29 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 It would be the Med CM.... the Israelis are forced to launch "against the wind" or from east to west to avoid dropping a live one on the palis and their affliated brethen. They pay a big price in payload for this.

Posted by Shipman 2004-09-07 10:17:17 AM|| 2004-09-07 10:17:17 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 For a while I was concerned that if nuclear weapons were to used it would be between the Indians and Pakland. If the Mullahs are allowed to get their hands on the bomb all bets are off. Granted with enough weapons they could destroy Israel but at the cost of their own culture? I pray that even the Mullahs in Tehran aren't that dumb because it just might spread and would be sure to spill over to India and Pakland. The question is would it stop there?

Posted by Cheaderhead 2004-09-07 1:11:45 PM|| 2004-09-07 1:11:45 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Cheaderhead,

The mullahs believe Allah will protect them from the consequences of their actions, because they are the beloved of God. Intelligence (or any thinking whatsoever)does not enter in to it. A major miscalculation, in my estimation, but then I'm not God (unless Heinlein was right, but that's another story).

Posted by trailing wife 2004-09-07 2:25:05 PM|| 2004-09-07 2:25:05 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 "the satellite was destroyed!"

*wink wink*

Posted by Frank G 2004-09-07 2:28:25 PM|| 2004-09-07 2:28:25 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 You're correct TW, that would be my least cat.

Posted by Shipman 2004-09-07 6:07:48 PM|| 2004-09-07 6:07:48 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Im sorry, dammit.
.com do you still have a link to Fluffy? Destroyer of Worlds?

Posted by Shipman 2004-09-07 6:08:40 PM|| 2004-09-07 6:08:40 PM|| Front Page Top

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