Tuesday, April 01, 2003
Learning From The Master
With the war taking some unexpected turns. We have to be flexible. We have to think out of the box. So, who do we turn to, but the Butcher of Sabra Shatilla and Jennin. Ariel Sharon.
Here is a little background on this guy. He has been charged as a war criminal in the 1982 massacre of civilians in the Palestinian refugee camps of Sabra and Shatilla.
The Belgian Supreme Court (Cour de Cassation) recently ruled that one of those named by the massacre victims in a criminal complaint, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, has immunity from prosecution as long as he serves in that position, but that investigations could proceed against his co-defendant, former Israeli army commander Amos Yaron.
The Israeli tactics must be a model for us to emulate because America is going to borrow some tactics used in Jennin. You remember Jennin, where the Israeli Army used bulldozers to knock buildings over while people were still in them. The destruction was so vast and the death toll of civilians was so high, that Israel would not allow UN inspectors too view the carnage. Israel recently used one of those modified bulldozers to run over a young US college girl as shocked witnesses looked on. The American military just bought nine of those converted bulldozers used in the Jenin demolitions from Israel" Will they come with aim sites on them?
We are also tweeking the current rules of engagement.
A Navy officer at the Pentagon recently stated that in the battle for Bagdad the US will relax its restrictions on target selection. "We won't announce it" In the chaos of the battlefield, the old rules of engagement have already been tossed out. Lieut. Colonel Wes Gillman, commander of Task Force 130 of the 3rd Infantry Division, told his men, "If you see an Iraqi in civilian clothes coming toward you—even with a stick—shoot" This is what the Bush administration has brought us to. Killing people that come at us with sticks.
Still think we are going to come out ahead on this one?
Here is a little background on this guy. He has been charged as a war criminal in the 1982 massacre of civilians in the Palestinian refugee camps of Sabra and Shatilla.
The Belgian Supreme Court (Cour de Cassation) recently ruled that one of those named by the massacre victims in a criminal complaint, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, has immunity from prosecution as long as he serves in that position, but that investigations could proceed against his co-defendant, former Israeli army commander Amos Yaron.
The Israeli tactics must be a model for us to emulate because America is going to borrow some tactics used in Jennin. You remember Jennin, where the Israeli Army used bulldozers to knock buildings over while people were still in them. The destruction was so vast and the death toll of civilians was so high, that Israel would not allow UN inspectors too view the carnage. Israel recently used one of those modified bulldozers to run over a young US college girl as shocked witnesses looked on. The American military just bought nine of those converted bulldozers used in the Jenin demolitions from Israel" Will they come with aim sites on them?
We are also tweeking the current rules of engagement.
A Navy officer at the Pentagon recently stated that in the battle for Bagdad the US will relax its restrictions on target selection. "We won't announce it" In the chaos of the battlefield, the old rules of engagement have already been tossed out. Lieut. Colonel Wes Gillman, commander of Task Force 130 of the 3rd Infantry Division, told his men, "If you see an Iraqi in civilian clothes coming toward you—even with a stick—shoot" This is what the Bush administration has brought us to. Killing people that come at us with sticks.
Still think we are going to come out ahead on this one?
# posted by Thomas @ 11:02 PM 
