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Pitched Battle going on now - Hizbellah is standing to fight
Fox | July 14,2006 | Fox News

Posted on 07/24/2006 6:41:29 AM PDT by I still care

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To: Stultis

>The Hez seem better disciplined than the typical Arab fighter, and the Iranians and Syrians have reportedly been supplying them with high quality military equipment: night vision goggles, body armor and etc. Also the IDF will not be able to use some of their traditional strengths such a maneuver and mobility. They'll have to plow right into the fortified positions rather than bypass them.

>It could be a tough and costly fight

Body armor doesn't help too much against 155mm HE or 500 lbs bombs. Simply keeps the Woggie peices together to make burial easier for the IDF GRU units.


81 posted on 07/24/2006 8:43:50 AM PDT by MindBender26 (Having my own CAR-15 in RVN meant never having to say I was sorry....)
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To: ElisabethInCincy
HEAD ON APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE FOREHEAD

I've seen that ad so many times I'm sick of it, and I still don't know what the product does. Cure a headache? Stop a receding hairline (too late for me)? Eliminate acne?

I'm certainly not buying any.

82 posted on 07/24/2006 8:44:03 AM PDT by JoeFromSidney (My book is out. Read excerpts at www.thejusticecooperative.com)
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To: pgkdan; All

This ought to be the US policy on terrorists as well. We have much to learn from the Israelis concerning how to deal with IslamoNazi scum. Go, IDF!
No pity.
No mercy.
No prisoners.
Send 'em all to Hell.


83 posted on 07/24/2006 8:51:12 AM PDT by 95 Bravo ("Freedom is not free.")
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To: Diddle E. Squat
It's not surprising - the snippet from the Haaretz story sounds like Hezbollah is working from the same playbook as the Democrats:

Hezbollah admitted in a statement Sunday that IDF troops had taken over the village, but called the move a defeat for Israel.

The Democrats always label their election defeats as "victories". Come to think of it, Baghdad Bob was known for describing Iraqi defeats as great victories. Could Baghdad Bob be a Democrat too?

84 posted on 07/24/2006 8:52:19 AM PDT by The Electrician ("Government is the only enterprise in the world which expands in size when its failures increase.")
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To: InterceptPoint

The first village IDF took was not fully pacified even though they occupied it. They begin to soften up the next one - the BIGGIE stronghold - when, according to the reporter, they were having to fight a rear guard action against Hez who were coming out of hiding and attacking their flank. So they were battling to maintain control of the first village while beginning to move on the stronghold.


85 posted on 07/24/2006 8:58:34 AM PDT by txrangerette ("We are fighting al-Qaeda, NOT Aunt Sadie"...Dick Cheney commenting on the wiretaps!!)
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To: Diddle E. Squat

Were violins playing in the background?sarc


86 posted on 07/24/2006 9:02:36 AM PDT by Thombo2
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To: pgkdan
But they are growing them early.
87 posted on 07/24/2006 9:03:26 AM PDT by Tulsa Ramjet ("If not now, when?")
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To: kittymyrib

Too bad so much valuable real estate has to get destroyed to get these thugs out of there. There must be a more efficient way to exterminate them.


88 posted on 07/24/2006 9:03:28 AM PDT by worst-case scenario (Striving to reach the light)
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To: I still care

I don't understand. I can't wait 'til Shep Smith comes on and explains all this to me.


89 posted on 07/24/2006 9:06:33 AM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: worst-case scenario
"....There must be a more efficient way to exterminate them....."

Neutron bomb comes to mind....

90 posted on 07/24/2006 9:10:16 AM PDT by Victor (If an expert says it can't be done, get another expert." -David Ben-Gurion, the first Prime Minister)
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To: Proud_USA_Republican

"The Palistinians would turn South Lebanon into a garbage dump."Very true.Some may consider me a racist,but i believe that's all they're capable of.What do the Pali's bring besides death and destruction?


91 posted on 07/24/2006 9:10:27 AM PDT by Thombo2
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To: goldstategop

No it's not. No Israeli land is shown, that's why it isn't there.


92 posted on 07/24/2006 9:16:25 AM PDT by tlj18 (Shipping out for Basic Combat Training at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, on July 27, 2006)
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To: Kenton
Nothing nicer than a group of guerrilla fighters assembling in one place and trying to slug it out using conventional warfare.

Brave like tiger.

Smart like tree.

Then again, if the IDF did a good job of isolating the battlefield, they may not have left them any other choice.

93 posted on 07/24/2006 9:16:27 AM PDT by Polybius
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To: Diddle E. Squat

Good grief. IT is a lonely village and Israel warned innocents to get the heck out of dodge. I WILL NOT change the channel from Fox.


94 posted on 07/24/2006 9:21:10 AM PDT by tioga
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To: lormand
"Hezbollah admitted in a statement Sunday that IDF troops had taken over the village, but called the move a defeat for Israel. "

It is increasingly obvious why Islamists and Muslims are of like mind. To be so, you have to completely suspend common sense.

95 posted on 07/24/2006 9:22:56 AM PDT by Mad_Tom_Rackham (Islamofascism = Evil + Insanity)
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To: I still care

I believe a trained army supported by airpower can beat this bunch of rag tag thugs and guerillas. I don't mean to downplay their courage--after all it's re-inforced by martyr theology which makes them think they'r invincible.

But the Israelis are disciplined, trained, technologically advanced--and they also have some psychological re-inforcement about defending their homes and avenging their dead.

If the Israelis can't win this one, we all need to start digging foxholes and rocket shelters.


96 posted on 07/24/2006 9:25:11 AM PDT by wildbill
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To: goldstategop
A map from which Israel is conveniently erased.

Map must have come from the UN.

97 posted on 07/24/2006 9:26:07 AM PDT by Mad_Tom_Rackham (Islamofascism = Evil + Insanity)
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To: wildbill

Theyve already warned the citizenry. Why dont they carpet bomb to prepare the field for battle? They have to have bigger more wicked bombs in their arsenal do they not??


98 posted on 07/24/2006 9:27:19 AM PDT by samadams2000
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To: ElisabethInCincy

lol,, i HATE THAT ADD,,,,,,so does my whole family.....hehehehe...


99 posted on 07/24/2006 9:30:41 AM PDT by meanie monster
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To: Straight Vermonter
The original UN mandate of 1947 called for a separate Palestine in the West Bank. Jordan grabbed it during the Israeli War of Independence in 1948.
100 posted on 07/24/2006 9:36:02 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
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