British Chief of Staff endorses 'hunt to kill' policy on Islamic Homicide Bombers

LORD GUTHRIE, a former Chief of the Defence Staff, this week broke with
British government policy and endorsed Israel's targeted killing of Hamas
and Islamic Jihad leaders in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

"They are a legitimate target", he said after this weeks Commonwealth Dinner
on Monday Night.

"How on earth can you allow your people to be attacked without trying to
stop it?" the General asked. " The only way to stop Suicide Bombers is to
attack the people who send them".

During his 44-year army career, Lord Guthrie, an SAS veteran, fought
terrorism in Malaysia, Borneo, Yemen, Aden, Oman, Kenya and Northern
Ireland. He retired as Britain's most senior soldier in 2001, and is now a
member of the International Institute of Strategic Studies.

He described the problem of stopping suicide bombers as astonishingly
difficult. "I am not surprised" he said, "that Israel tries to attack the
evil people who send the young bombers, who need the support, and the
equipment, who need the direction and the target. It's the people behind
them that have to be hit"

In the same speech, criticized France, Germany (is there any difference
anymore??) and other European countries for opposing the war in Iraq. "The
US" he said, have good reason to feel let down".

He acknowledged that these countries were also anxious not to stir up and
frighten their own Muslim population, with the attitude of trying to calm
rather than incite.

But he warned, "without being able to protect our military power, Europe
will not be taken seriously". He called for a united stand against
international terrorism,which he said "knew no borders".

 

Putting him on equal standing with former Cabinet members like Ed Meese
and Jocelyn Elders.

Which means his statements have zero relevance to reality.

Palestinians have been asking that question for thirty-six years.

An equivalent argument, therefore, is to say that the only way to stop
thirty-six years of oppressive military occupation is to attack the
people who elect the oppressors.

Considering that US actions in Iraq and Afghanistan have killed more
than twice as many innocent civilians as died on 9/11, that attitude is
more than warranted.

 

And why is this important to ANY ONE of these groups?

 

The only one whose statements have zero relevance, are apologists for
murderers like you Max.
You consistently come onto these discussions with totally one-sided and
biased propaganda.
I just look forward to the day, when appeasers like you, realise your
mistake, and end up like every other appeaser throughout history - usually
dead!!

 

The reason warmongers don't end up dead is they're too chicken to get in
the arena themselves and send their neighbors' sons & daughters to do
the work for them.

Let's see you post from Tikrit instead of your LaZBoy, buddy.

 

Been there and done it - 12 years in the Armed Forces, followed by 8 (so
far, as a police officer).
So Max...tell me about your armchair protests, you sanctimonious prick.
Have you been to Tikrit? the Middle East?
Well I have, so I speak from a position of first hand knowledge, not from an
stoop in Hicksville, Carolina.
Get a life, and an opinion of your own - get out there and see the reality
FOOL!

PLONK

Person of
Little
Or
No
Knowledge

 

With all that experience, he should know and remember what happened with
shoot-to-kill policies in N. Ireland.

Malc