Well, when someone either pulls the right strings, or presses the proper buttons, Puppet-Boy-In-Chief sure knows how to deliver:
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, U.S. officials said Friday.
The decision to quickly ship the weapons to Israel was made with relatively little debate within the 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...
Pentagon and military officials declined to describe in detail the size and contents of the shipment to Israel, and they would not say whether the munitions were being shipped by cargo aircraft or some other means. But an arms-sale package approved last year provides authority for Israel to purchase from the United States as many as 100 GBU-28s, which are 5,000-pound laser-guided bombs intended to destroy concrete bunkers. The package also provides for selling satellite-guided munitions.
An announcement in 2005 that Israel was eligible to buy the "bunker buster" weapons described the GBU-28 as "a special weapon that was developed for penetrating hardened command centers located deep underground." The document added, "The Israeli air force will use these GBU-28s on their F-15 aircraft."
American officials said that once a weapons purchase is approved, it is up to the buyer nation to set up a timetable. But one U.S. official said normal procedures usually do not include rushing deliveries within days of a request. That was done in this case because Israel is a close ally in the midst of hostilities, the official said.
A senior Israeli official said Friday that the attacks to date had degraded Hezbollah's military strength by roughly half, but that the campaign could go on for two more weeks or longer. "We will stay heavily with the air campaign," he said. "There's no time limit. We will end when we achieve our goals."
Well, you've gotta hand it to the Israelis in one respect: they've yet to dump a codpieced Ehud Olmert onto a carrier deck to declare "Mission Accomplished." Yet.
On the other hand, this pretty much underscores yer administration at work: Israel gets the ultimate in FedEx shipping...our troops in Iraq are constantly told to wait for proper equipment...and our citizens, like along the Gulf Coast, are given...the shaft.
Hope the supporters of this particular exercise in ugly, bludgeoning brutality are happy...but personally, I see no thrill in killing people, especially when it does...absolutely nothing...by way of improving things. Meanwhile, over in Afghanistan (remember THAT war?) things are "close to anarchy," and in Iraq, it's all pretty much over except for the upcoming civil war bloodbath. Nice work, GOP. In fact, so nice, I think this is as good a "compliment" as any re: your handiwork (apologies for not remembering where I first saw this):
I cannot believe how incredibly stupid you are. I mean rock-hard stupid. Dehydrated-rock-hard stupid. Stupid so stupid that it goes way beyond the stupid we know into a whole different dimension of stupid. You are trans-stupid stupid. Meta-stupid. Stupid collapsed on itself so far that even the neutrons have collapsed. Stupid gotten so dense that no intellect can escape. Singularity stupid. Blazing hot mid-day sun on Mercury stupid. You emit more stupid in one second than our entire galaxy emits in a year. Quasar stupid.
- "The Ultimate Flame," author unknown
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