U.S. Speeds Up Bomb Delivery for the Israelis

By DAVID S. CLOUD and HELENE COOPER
Published: July 22, 2006
WASHINGTON, July 21 — The Bush administration is rushing a delivery of precision-guided bombs to Israel, which requested the expedited shipment last week after beginning its air campaign against Hezbollah targets in Lebanon, American officials said Friday.

The decision to quickly ship the weapons to Israel was made with relatively little debate within the Bush administration, the officials said. Its disclosure threatens to anger Arab governments and others because of the appearance that the United States is actively aiding the Israeli bombing campaign in a way that could be compared to Iran’s efforts to arm and resupply Hezbollah.

The munitions that the United States is sending to Israel are part of a multimillion-dollar arms sale package approved last year that Israel is able to draw on as needed, the officials said. But Israel’s request for expedited delivery of the satellite and laser-guided bombs was described as unusual by some military officers, and as an indication that Israel still had a long list of targets in Lebanon to strike.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Friday that she would head to Israel on Sunday at the beginning of a round of Middle Eastern diplomacy. The original plan was to include a stop to Cairo in her travels, but she did not announce any stops in Arab capitals.

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WTF???

They give us an open Purchase Order (paid for with your tax dollar and mine) and then they fill in the blanks?

In what line do I stand?

or hand them over to the other side's people for whatever they want to do to them.. stick cherry bombs up their asses..

This is despicable. Next we'll have Bush down there autographing the bombs on the way out the door.

Nothing like having a BOMB Tab, instead of a Bar Tab.

Someone should get a BIG OLD DEAD BOMB, cover it in pictures of slaughtered or injured children from all over the world and then cart this Graphic Object from Protest to Protest.. have HomeLand Sec all over them, but hey, the bomb is EMPTY, as Empty as Bush's skull :)

Monsters, all of them. How would Bush and family feel if their kids were laying around a city block in pieces, would he even care? These kids belong to ALL OF US..

Washington has alays been cozy with Israel, and blind to their atrocities. Oops, not blind. Complicit in them.

will they continue killing innocents, Lebanese or Iraqis.

already have.

They are getting the best - the satelite and laser-guided bombs. Forget about a ceasefire until the bombs are used up.