WTF? 24-48 hours to vacate your own country and just hand it over

[smacky44]

to terrorists? Would anyone in the US stand for this? If this is the case, Israel can threaten to bomb the beegeezus out of any nation and order them to evacuate and then just walk in and take over? Why is the entire world standing by and allowing this to happen to Lebanon...a beautiful people with a once beautiful country, the gem of the ME?

[knowbody0]

1. and please note:

we've blown up your bridges, your roads your air strips, so be creativ!

[uppityperson]

6. and also please note

if we think you are transporting terrorists, or getting prepared to fight later we will still bomb you now, defending ourselves. Have a nice day.

[partylessinOhio]

7. There is little fuel left but most don't have cars. Taxis are charging

high fees to drive people out because it is so dangerous.

The world should have stopped this terrorism 19 days ago.

[JHH]

2. what did these people ever do to Israel?

[SPKrazy]

3. LOL

yeah, what'd they ever do?

[malaise]

13. They live South of that Litani river

that's their only crime and someone else wants their river.

[mom cat]

20. bingo!

[in_cog_ni_to]

4. Well, now there will be a Hezbollah/IDF fight.

Isn't that what you all wanted? No citizens killed? The citizens will now be safe and Hezbollah and the IDF can shoot at each other. Hopefully, no more inncocent people will die.

Terrorists = Hezbollah.

[sabbat hunter]

5. trying to do the right thing

israel is trying to do the right thing. their country was attacked by terrorists (hizbollah) who took 2 soldiers captive, who are probably dead now. each day hundreds of rockets land in israel from hizbollah who hide cowardly among civilians. israel is trying to do the right by warning away civilians and get the cowardly terrorists and destroy them once and for all.

[JHH]

8. Killing Innocent woman & children is NEVER,NEVER the "right thing"

[in_cog_ni_to]

10. Really? What about WWII? n/t

[VelmaD]

17. What about it?

The more I read of what you write the less and less I understand what must go on in your head.

And btw, the killing of innocent civilians on all sides during WWII was WRONG.

[niyad]

9. you forgot the sarcasm icon, didn't you?

[rocktivity]

11. Good strategy, hiding among the civilians

Maybe they'll LEAVE the country along with the civilians, too. Look how well it worked for the Viet Cong and Iraqi insurgents.

:eyes:
rocknation

[MercutioATC]

12. "Destroy them once and for all"????

Do you actually believe Israel can "destroy" Hezbollah?

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[DoYouEverWonder]

23. It's right up there

with trying to kill all the mosquitoes or roaches. You might get rid of one batch but 5 more batches will be born in the process.

[pitohui]

36. and yet we will have mosquito control

and without it we would still have malaria in usa borders

i just don't get the "oh woe what's the use" strategy people are offering to israel

[DoYouEverWonder]

37. The key word is 'control'

You might be able to 'control' something like mosquitoes or a group of people, but you can never get rid of them entirely. The only thing that will happen is that more will pop up somewhere else.

BTW: We may have gotten rid of malaria in this country but instead we have West Nile virus and equine encephalitis and if you haven't noticed, we still have plenty of mosquitoes.

[pitohui]

35. what do you suggest they do then?

lay down and give up?

[MercutioATC]

39. Do what Dems called for in 2004...reduce terrorism to a "nuisance".

...and the way to start that process is this (IMO):

1) Have Israel pull back to 1967 borders

2) Have both Israel and the U.S. offer economic incentives to Lebanon that will rebuild their infrastructure and allow for the possibility of some degree of prosperity


...and that's a minimalist view. It may take much more than that. However, that'd be a good place to start.

[malaise]

15. How dare Israel tell people to get out of

their homes. Who the hell do they think they are?

[Critters2]

21. Been doing it for 60 years

Why stop now?

[malaise]

38. Well I heard a Lebanese

Minister of government on BBC International saying his government will not be telling his citizens to leave their homes and if they are killed by Israel that will merely add to their war crimes.

Can you imagine the dislocation of nearly a million refugees? Good fugging grief.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

16. The rockets didn't start until after the Israeli bombing raids

:shrug:

Awful lot of civilians killed for just two soldiers, don't you think? Or are Arabs lesser human beings?

[WinkyDink]

24. At least you acknowledge that it started with the kidnappings.

Why were the soldiers kidnapped, anyway?

[smacky44]

25. Soldiers are "captured" not "kidnapped."

[Lydia Leftcoast]

29. Darned if I know

As hostages for prisoner exchanges?

Because they were in Lebanese territory?

[walldude]

30. It was for an exchange of prisoners

Which Israel has done in the past. This time they said if they traded prisoners then "kidnappings" would continue. This is my sticking point with the vehement pro-Israel people. They claim Israel has done everything they could to avoid the conflict and protect civilians but a simple prisoner exchange could have stopped all this... This latest escalation has nothing to do with the 2 kidnapped soldiers. I feel bad for the Israeli and Lebanese citizens caught in the middle of the puppet masters.

[sabbat hunter]

32. the soldiers

were captured on israeli soil.

[sabbat hunter]

31. actually

there were attacks on the sheba farms before the capture of the soldiers by hibzollah

[Mojorabbit]

19. then there is this

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1774257

[bloom]

26. What the hell is the peace sign supposed to mean?

Peace by murder?

Kill all your enemies and then you'll be peaceful.

[QuestionAll...]

28. is it my imagination or is that a cut and paste

that I've seen here more than a few times?

just heard on CNN almost the same damn word for word.

[sabbat hunter]

33. it is your imagination

those are my own words. probably similar to ones heard on TV but my own words

[GAPeace]

14. It is open terrorism that only Bush-Blair support

IMO

[davidwparker]

18. I saw on LinkTV where that happened to the natives at Diego Garcia.

The British just rounded them up and moved them to a new island. UK and USA are waiting until they just die off and then the problem goes away. That was a sad show.

[NYC]

27. I read about that. They had very short notice,

and were transported elsewhere. Permanently gone from their homes.

[jonnyblitz]

34. that was a duty station option when I was in the navy in the '80s.

I had never heard of it before I joined the navy. Nobody wanted to get stationed there, it was considered isolated duty. Recently is the first I have heard of what you speak of.