AP (via Forbes):
In a second airstrike around the port city of Tyre, Israel accidentally killed a Lebanese soldier when it hit a car that it believed was carrying a senior Hezbollah official, the Israeli army said. Lebanese security officials said the soldier was killed by a rocket strike from a drone aircraft.
The Israeli army justified […]
Israeli Justice Minister Haim Ramon on July 27:
He added that Israel had given the civilians of southern Lebanon ample time to quit the area and therefore anyone still remaining there can be considered Hezbollah supporters.
“All those now in south Lebanon are terrorists who are related in some way to Hezbollah,” Mr Ramon said.
The Israeli position […]
A.P. (via Forbes):
An Israeli airstrike Sunday killed at least 50 people — more than half children — in a southern Lebanese village, the deadliest attack in 19 days of fighting. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice postponed a visit to Lebanon.
She said she was “deeply saddened by the terrible loss of innocent life” in Israel’s attack. […]
National Public Radio has released the results of a poll that sheds some very interesting light on the prospects of the Democrats regaining control of the House this year. Salon’s Joe Conason reports that unlike other polls which document a generic preference for Democrats at the national level, the NPR survey of a thousand […]
George W. Bush as quoted verbatim by whitehouse.gov (7/27/06):
I set a goal for this country that we cut the deficit in half by 2009 — just had an interesting statistic come out in the Mid Session Review recently. That’s the time we take a look and see how things are going. When Rob Portman, […]
Reuters brings us Israel’s official position on the killing of children in the Israel-Hezbollah-Lebanon conflict:
Israel’s U.N. Ambassador Dan Gillerman said Qana was “a hub for Hizbollah” and said his country had “beseeched” residents to leave prior to Sunday’s attack.
[…]
“Every dead Lebanese child is a horrible mistake and a tragedy. For them (Hizbollah) every dead Israeli […]
Anti-Semitic, Holocaust-denying piece of shit Mel Gibson was arrested for DUI in Malibu, CA on Friday:
Gibson, 50, was arrested for investigation of driving under the influence of alcohol after deputies stopped his 2006 Lexus LS 430 for speeding. Sheriff’s spokesman Steve Whitmore said deputies clocked him doing 87 mph in a 45 mph zone.
Nice. […]
NIH Director Joins Call For Mideast Cease-Fire (WaPo):
Elias A. Zerhouni, a physician whom President Bush appointed director of the NIH [National Institutes of Health] in 2002, lent his name to a half-page ad in yesterday’s Washington Post by the Arab-American Institute Foundation. The ad, which featured the names of 36 prominent Arab Americans, called upon […]
Efficiency:
At least 443 people have been killed in Lebanon in the fighting, most of them civilians, according to a Health Ministry count Thursday based on bodies taken to hospitals, plus deaths Friday confirmed by security forces. But Lebanon’s health minister estimated Thursday that as many as Lebanese 600 civilians have been killed, with other victims […]
One of those spineless Democrats that Sac likes to rail against has an OpEd about the Middle East in today’s Washington Post. Don’t go read it. It might dislodge some kind of important misconceptions or something.
