You are asking a little old lady without a poodle...:lol:So why wasn't it the Gov. who were resisting the invasion?
Wasn't it because the Hezbollah captured an Israeli soldier and refused to hand him back over?
Give me a minute and I'll find out.
You are asking a little old lady without a poodle...:lol:So why wasn't it the Gov. who were resisting the invasion?
It was a 33-day war between Israel and Hezbollah. The real victims were the civilians in Lebanon.The conflict began when Hezbollah militants fired rockets at Israeli border towns as a diversion for an anti-tank missile attack on two armored Humvees patrolling the Israeli side of the border fence. Of the seven Israeli soldiers in the two jeeps, two were wounded, three were killed, and two were captured and taken to Lebanon. Five more were killed in a failed Israeli rescue attempt. Israel responded with massive air strikes and artillery fire on targets in Lebanon, which damaged Lebanese civilian infrastructure, including Beirut's Rafik Hariri International Airport which Israel alleged that Hezbollah used to import weapons, an air and navalblockade, and a ground invasion of southern Lebanon.
I just finished listening to that video!!!! What an eye opener!!! Thank you ever so much for posting it, MHz!!Now this video says the soldiers were in Lebanon when they captured.
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/14.html
So true!That site has a pretty good list of videos, I haven't watched very many yet but the categories look interesting .
When in doubt about what the truth is you have to research who did it benefit. Most red-flag operations has one side clearly gaining the most.
Hi, Norm;Hey Loon,
All Bush is doing now is posturing in the part of the world he thinks he knows. Bush is arrogant and ignorant too. His claim at attending some premier US institutions of higher learning is really translated as he was there on campus. If you went to a Harvard football game at their stadium you could claim you've been to Harvard, right? His speech in Tel Aviv was another attempt to garner some applause to salve his wounded ego. Bush is an ignoramus and I hope Mc Bush doesn't show us more of the same. The Middle East tensions would ease considerably if the US stayed out of the area and quit sending Condi in there to upset it more. Our intel assessments are a comedy leading to more failures on the part of the US.
:lol::lol::lol::lol:You probably mean Israeli whine
There have been wars since time immemorial! It's the 3rd one within one generation.How long has that 3rd war been going on? If you consider the very few who could have any influence over US foreign policy it would most likely be the bankers. That would make that war several hundred years old already.
Yes, 'green light' is a more appropriate description. It is the Israelis who control America, as Mr. Sharon once said.That video stated that Israel was in Lebanon fighting a proxy war for the US. That point might not be the whole story. I would be more comfortable with that statement, if Israel didn't have as much influence in American politics as it does. That only means Israel was given a green-light rather than getting 'marching orders'.
I need a little visual help to comprehend what you are saying...So, money is loaned to a company that produces weapons. This company sells the weapons with profit, and pays the banker back the original loan plus interest.. The country buying the weapons borrows money from the banker in order to pay for the weapons. This country now owes the banker an x amount of money plus interest. This country now uses these weapons to fight a war. The weapons get used up. The banker wants his original amount back plus the interest. Where would this money come from? The citizens? But who pays the citizens? Their government. Really? No! The citizens have to work to produce goods. Goods get sold for profit... citizen gets paid, many citizens pay government some of their earnings. Government now has money to pay banker for the weapons that got used up.That still leaves the bankers, the ones who pocketed money because the attempted invasion cost money. Both sides spent funds, and money has only one stop once it is in circulation, right back where it started from. If the very start of the circulation was aimed at a piece of equipment that would be used for war (the only option given, no weapon=no money) then it makes little difference where that piece is manufactured.
I have no problem with that.Bankers see the world much like a "Risk" board except they deal out money at the beginning of the game and collect it all at the end, it always belongs only to them and they more or less get the say what it is spent on.
Perhaps it is the way they put that money to work that we should be concerned about. If a bank loans money to both sides of a conflict and the total cost of that conflict is $600B. The 3% charge for printing that money is $18B, the actual rate it is loaned out at could be higher than that. They want/need to keep money (at least a certain portion) in circulation, war is expensive, it can bring in a high return in a short period of time.So, why are we supposed to be mad at the bankers? All they are doing is to make money work for them.
When I heard Bush's comments, my first thoughts as a political scientist regarding the "some who seem to believe we should negotiate" was that it was a generalized statement towards supporters of peace at any price doctrine, as evidenced by his historical reference to Senator Joseph Kennedy and his implicit reference to Neville Chamberlain's infamous role in procuring what he called "peace for our time" via the Munich Agreement."Some seem to believe that we should negotiate with the terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along. We have heard this foolish delusion before. As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American senator declared: 'Lord, if I could only have talked to Hitler, all this might have been avoided.' We have an obligation to call this what it is: the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history."