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2006-08-15 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by leroidavid 2006-08-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11129 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Congress what a bunch of hypocritical assholes.

Posted by djohn66 2006-08-15 00:12|| 2006-08-15 00:12|| Front Page Top

#2 I notice that no names are cited in the article.

Let's have an up/down vote in the House and the Senate, I'll bet there will be a different outcome.

Posted by Captain America 2006-08-15 00:46|| 2006-08-15 00:46|| Front Page Top

#3 I will say again - the cluster munitions are to suppress anti-tank fire and kill the gunners. The "civilians" that are co-located with the missleers and gunners are probably not innocent. If you stay next to one of these, you get a Darwin Award.

CA is correct. We need a roll-call vote.

Posted by SR-71 2006-08-15 09:36|| 2006-08-15 09:36|| Front Page Top

#4 Please correct me if I'm wrong here but aren't cluster bombs designed to open above ground releasing a large number of bomblets that explode on impact? Very useful against runways and as an antipersonnel weapon. And, if it's a cluster "Bomb" why refer to it as an M26 rocket. This doesn't add up and looks like sloppy reporting to me.

Posted by DonM 2006-08-15 13:16|| 2006-08-15 13:16|| Front Page Top

#5 It is an artillery rocket for the MLRS system. The rocket is a cargo round : it launches, arcs to the target, at a preset height it detonates the carrier shell, and the cluster munitions are spread over the impact area.

Posted by Shieldwolf 2006-08-15 16:18|| 2006-08-15 16:18|| Front Page Top

#6 It seems Congress or at least the bigotted "humanitarian" Dem's there are really keen on pushing Israel towards actually manufacturing their own critical munitions, because it is becoming obvious that we cannot rely on help from Congress when our necks are on the block.

Posted by Elder of Zion 2006-08-15 16:20|| 2006-08-15 16:20|| Front Page Top

#7 Thanks Shieldwolf, I appreciate the info. But it still doesn't explain the reference to "thousands of ball bearings". It reads, to me, that the author is trying to establish an Israeli equivalency to the Hiz b' Arabs use of ball bearings in their rockets and suicide belts.

Posted by DonM 2006-08-15 17:54|| 2006-08-15 17:54|| Front Page Top

#8 WEll, DonM, we both do it because it's effective. It spreads the energy out in a larger area, rather than overkilling a single point. If you are aiming at a rocket launcher (the US targets), then you have a good chance of damanging or destroying the launcher, the rockets, and the people manning them. Or at least, getting some damage in. If you are targeting children (the Islamic way), then rather than blow one to smithereens, you can wound and maybe kill dozens.

So, yes, the weapons technologies and intents are similar. The US and Nazis in WWII had many similar technologies, too. It's the use to which they are placed that matters.

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