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Originally Posted by MaggieL
Rich was, when he equated cluster bombs to a minefield. Cluster bombs, and clustered artillery shells aren't implicit evident of indiscriminate intent.
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Well that just mocks the intelligence of everyone here. Since no Hezbollah were where those cluster bombs were dropped, then that is a legal target? Remember, even if the plane lucked out - dropped a cluster bomb where an unguided rocket was launched 20 minutes earlier, still, no enemy left to bomb. Just civilians or civilian property to target. AND pilots only had a general region - a wild guess - of where most rockets were launched. Pilots had no ground spotters - and MaggieL knows ground spotters were necessary to accurately target. Pilots could see neither a rocket launcher nor Hezbollah. Pilot often picked a general area - a likely target - and cluster bombed it. This even from Israeli pilots quoted by the BBC. MaggieL thinks everyone is so stupid as to call that accurate targeting. To be more indiscriminate, they must also bombing Israel.
Bombing was so indiscriminate as to even bomb cities in most northern Lebanon cities in Akkar province. Israeli pilots attacked Hezbollah hiding in cities in every Lebanese province. Clearly that also was not indiscriminate.
Israel leaders would then blame civilians for 'letting Hezbollah use their homes as rocket launching sites'. Tell us what a homeowner would do when armed troops arrived to launch a rocket anywhere towards Israel. And yet Israel justification for random cluster bombs was that civilians were supporting Hezbollah; letting Hezbollah use their neighborhoods as launching pad. That alone means bombing was targeted; not indiscriminate? MaggieL - do you love to insult everyone's intelligence with that reasoning? This post is that strongly worded because your claims do that much mock basic intelligence. You actually believe pilots could identify targets? Then you mock everyone.
MagggieL's soundbyte reasoning is bull once we add facts she routinely forgets. Clearly, in MaggieL's world, those pilots could see rocket launchers and those Hezbollah soldiers remaining for 20 minutes so that Israeli planes could attack them. World according to MaggieL - when only Likud Israeli extremists wear white hats.
Chinese soldiers are now removing cluster bombs from Lebanese civilian areas. Unexploded cluster bombs in fields and towns like a minefield. Officially it is not a minefield. Reality - no difference.