US Gives Israel Green Light To Continue For 10 to 14 More Days

[kpete]

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U.S. Gives Israel Timeline for Assault on Hezbollah, Official Says
Tuesday, July 25, 2006

NABATIYEH, Lebanon — The United States has given Israeli forces between 10 and 14 days to finish dealing Hezbollah "a strategic blow," a senior Israeli Foreign Ministry official told FOX News, as both Israeli forces and Hezbollah guerrillas continued to volley rockets across the Lebanon-Israel border.

While admitting that the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) is working at a "slow pace," the official insisted the plan was constructed out of concern for human life.

"We could do it much faster if we would be willing to inflict high civilian casualties," the official said. "The decision was made to move in a methodical, slow way."

Israeli troops sealed off a Hezbollah stronghold and warplanes killed six people in a market city in southern Lebanon on Tuesday, while Beirut was pounded by new airstrikes. Guerrillas fired rockets at northern Israel, killing a girl, as the two-week-old crisis showed no signs of letting up, despite frantic diplomatic efforts.

more at:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,205378,00.html

[stepnw1f]

1. OMG... These People are Sick!!!!

"While admitting that the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) is working at a "slow pace," the official insisted the plan was constructed out of concern for human life."

Yuh... surrre you are buddy.

[slaveplanet]

2. Isn't that about

the same time, when you take into account the last 2 weeks, it took the US and Britain to dismantle Iraq. a situation they have yet to recover from, some are lucky to have power for a few hours a day, 3 years after the fact.

[mom cat]

3. Who gives the US the right to grant even one minute of a massacre?

[yy4me]

5. My thoughts exactly,

n/t

[MisterP]

12. he's Emperor of the World just like Justinian, only stupid

even the Popes were subservient to the Emperor 'til around 1100, be he in Byzantium or Prague, or even the Exarch of Ravenna
on edit: and the Carolingian Empire; they just couldn't let the Western Roman Empire die--even King Arthur got in on the Resurrection Game, banging around with Clovis and the Visigoths and threatening the Ostrogoths...

[malaise]

4. They will be forced to stop after killing

UN Observers in their base. This fugging madness must stop NOW

[1956]

6. We're sending them bunker bombs, too!

We might as kiss our asses goodbye! We are supporting Israel, and they are seen as the bad guys, so the repurcussions are so much worse than the standard terror threat. Hezbollah seems a lot stronger and active than Bin Laden and co. This is way scarier folx!

[MadHound]

7. The US is going to give Israel as much time as it takes

In order to draw Syria and Iran into the conflict. That will provide Bushco the excuse he wants to invade those two countries and fulfill all of his PNAC dreams of ME hegemony.

[1956]

9. Exactly right!

God help us all!

[12345]

10. My thoughts exactly. They haven't taken the bait, yet.

[MadHound]

13. No, not yet,

But sadly it seems that Syria is doing a bit of nibbling.

[Scurrilous]

8. Tory MP: Lebanon raid reminiscent of Nazi atrocity on Warsaw ghetto

<snip>

"Sir Peter Tapsell, a Tory MP, said Tuesday that British Prime Minister Tony Blair was "colluding" with U.S. President George W. Bush in giving Israel the okay to wage "unlimited war" in Lebanon - a war crime he claimed was "gravely reminiscent of the Nazi atrocity on the Jewish quarter of Warsaw."

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/742707.html

[Disturbed]

11. Could the Busholini Junta actually force the Israeli Govt.

to cease the onslought?

[necso]

14. Is there another source for this?

(Maybe it's a trial balloon... hopefully)

If this misadministration is relying on their own, or Israeli, predictions as to when "the job will be done", then my guess is that we're headed for the deep end of the pool -- carrying an anchor.

"War planning" to-date seems to have driven by "strategic"-bombing blowhards and "think"-tank militarists -- short on knowledge of the "enemy" -- and long on overconfidence in their own abilities and in high-tech, low-cost solutions. (Gee, that sounds familiar.)

That's 0/2 on the Sun-Tzu scale. And what grounds are there to believe that better planning will emerge.

Glub-glub.