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Jul 31st, 2006 at 6:57 am by Susie

Can we please stop the bullshit about the “pinpoint precision” of these weapons and how they’re designed to prevent unnecessary civilian casualties? Because they don’t.

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on 31 Jul 2006 at 10:22 am1thomas

What makes you think civilians AREN’T the targets?

Those weapons are working flawlessly, it’s the people doing the targeting that are malfunctioning.
on 31 Jul 2006 at 11:00 am2Susie

That was my point, Tom. They can’t have it both ways. Either they’re incredibly precise (which means they’re killing people on purpose) or they’re not, which means they’re carpet-bombing, in violation of the Geneva accords.
on 31 Jul 2006 at 2:09 pm3johnieb

Susie, have you ever wondered what “precision” means with 750 pounds of High Explosives in one place?

From TGW: you gotta nice place.
on 31 Jul 2006 at 8:08 pm4yy

Even if there’s precision at point of impact and there’s yield which is much too high. So even if they precisely bomb a spot where a rocket launcher was in place a few hours ago, the resulting damage will take down an entire building.
on 01 Aug 2006 at 12:21 am5Omri

If you aim one of these things at a GPS location, it will hit that GPS location within a foot.

If you’re mistaken about what is to be found at that GPS location, well, you know the result. See Qana. They aimed at a rocket launcher, which was showing up bright and obvious in their infrared cameras. What wasn’t showing up in infrared was the civilians in the basement at a building right next to the launcher.

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