breaking: Israeli airstrike hits mosque, killing 9, injuring 60

Liberal_in_LA

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Sat Jan-03-09 11:27 AM
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breaking: Israeli airstrike hits mosque, killing 9, injuring 60

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spanone

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Sat Jan-03-09 11:28 AM
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1. now that's winning hearts and minds

:sarcasm:

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indepat

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Sat Jan-03-09 11:30 AM
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2. Such actions would be labeled terrorism or a terrorist act if not committed by the guys wearing the

white hats. :P

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The Magistrate

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Sat Jan-03-09 11:31 AM
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3. Hamas is A Religious Body, Sir, Conceiving Enmity Towards Israel A Religious Duty

Clerics use their mosques as military headquarters and quartermaster stores.

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spanone

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Sat Jan-03-09 11:32 AM
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4. still winning hearts and minds

:sarcasm:

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The Magistrate

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Sat Jan-03-09 11:40 AM
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5. Surely, Sir, You Know The True Form Of That Slogan....

"When you've got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow."

No one is trying to win 'hearts and minds' on either side; they are trying to kill people who mean them harm, and smash the tools they use to try and do it.

"They say war is an art, but its not. It mostly consists in outwitting people, robbing widows and orphans, and inflicting suffering on the helpless for one's own ends, and that's not art: that's business."

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spanone

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Sat Jan-03-09 11:48 AM
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6. i surely do....that is why this is an endless war.....it's all about getting their balls

and fuck their hearts and minds

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The Magistrate

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Sat Jan-03-09 12:14 PM
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11. Very True, Sir, And Most Unfortunate

Reasonable people of good will could have solved this thing decades ago....

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spanone

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Sat Jan-03-09 12:35 PM
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13. amen Magistrate...reasonable people...the world is sorely missing reasonable people

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GoesTo11

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Sat Jan-03-09 11:57 AM
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7. If this mosque was free of military activity, then bombing it was a big mistake

Is there any information about whether the mosque was a dual-use building, e.g., weapons storage or military training along with worship?

If it was used for both, then Hamas is to blame for its destruction by making it a legitimate target and hearts and minds will have to wait until Hamas is disarmed.

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The Magistrate

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Sat Jan-03-09 12:12 PM
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10. Hard To Know At This Remove, Sir

Israeli target lists seem to be fairly good by all reports, but there will always be error in the business. Error, resulting from good-faith effort, is not crime....

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ProgressiveProfessor

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Sat Jan-03-09 12:34 PM
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12. One of the IAF YouTube vidoes showed a strike on a mosque followed my massive secondaries

For a place of worship, it sure had a lot of energetics stored there.

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TahitiNut

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Sat Jan-03-09 12:00 PM
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8. The secular corruption of religious organizations is hardly isolated to the Middle East.

Hamas is a political organization. There's nothing new or unique about political activists cloaking themselves in the prevalent religious cloak.

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The Magistrate

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Sat Jan-03-09 12:08 PM
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9. True From Some Angles, Sir

But the leadership of Hamas is clerical at key points, and the blend of nationalism and religion they adhere to is a bit higher proof than usual in the latter element.

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ProgressiveProfessor

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Sat Jan-03-09 12:35 PM
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14. The abuse of religeous buildings as weapons depots is

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