Reply #9: Oh that report... [View All]

[MrPrax]

Did you read this far:

"When you turn on the engine, it takes off and flies," Abbas Fallah of Iran Aircraft Manufacturing told us. "It's so easy!"

We asked Fallah if the UAV was a "weapon of mass destruction."

"I don't think so!" he laughed.

Iranian officials have both taken credit for supplying the UAVs to Hezbollah and denied it.

One imprisoned Hezbollah fighter, named Shadi Abu Al-Hussein, allegedly confessed to the Israelis that he tried and failed to build a crude UAV packed with explosives. He sketched it for his Israeli captors. But in an interview with NBC News, the prisoner denied he's even part of Hezbollah.

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But then again, so what?
I believe these two groups are at war, no?
So why would it be unfair to suggest that one side doesn't have a right to any weapon they decide to use in order to further it's own particular goals. Israel hasn't ruled anything out, so why should the enemy? Besides I see this as a criticism ultimately of Israel's defense and intelligence gathering.

They seem to have not known quite a bit about the enemy or at least they are not telling us much and prefer to look incompetent, brutal and single-mindedly determined to carry out the same policies that created disaster and increased resentment in the ME.

But I don't buy it...this one was floated during the Iraq war and so the onus is on "U.S. and Israeli intelligence sources" and the report is strictly done to tie Iran to the conflict...which is something that the neo-cons are obsessed with, but I assume Iran and Syria are arming Hez anyway.

So I can never understand why this is suppose to be an important aspect to the conflict for Israel's supporters...other than converge it with existing US plans to attack Iran and Syria.

Yes we know...only Israel is allowed to have allies that supply it with weapons...yes yes...we know that part ;-)