What a crap. Wasn't a "STEALTH"-bomber shot down in Yougoslavia? In the meantime there are advanced socalled "weather radars", which dedect the smallest accumulation of "clouds" like the vapour coming from the jets engines. Just another way to transfer billions of $$ from the taxpayer to the pockets of Lockheed Martin and their shareholders. Wowww! Sales to the USAF down from 750 to 183?? Well, lets start a war against this "tarrrrorists" and cash up!!!

How about money for trials?We should try people for treason,incompetence,working for forein govts,ect. Incompetent company bosses who received the positions due to pull should also be tried for economic crimes against the people. Israeli lawyers who defend terrorists should be tried for aiding the enemy.Contractors who hire illegal or legal palestinian workers should also be tried for economimic crimes againstr the people.

What a load of crap. Why the talk of "bravery"? Are you OK mate? Yes, and the 'refugee camps' you talk about ARE NOT like the type we find in Africa are they? NO, they're FULL of ANTAGONISTS who use "OCCUPATION" as an excuse to murder innocent people and then cry foul when they get it back.

That's EXACTLY the fear and problem anti-semites and historically anti-semitic countries have. Their own guilt makes them fear Jews will do to them as they willed for Jews. Besides, who will they have to blame for EVERYTHING with Jews sooo clearly SUPERIOR to them and a SUPERPOWER no less? [Non-Jew, don't know Jews, know Bible, history, and character: thus LOVE! JEWS!] God bless Israel!

soon you'll face the same destiny,idiot

Bomb! the towel heads! God bless A'merica home of the free land of the brave. God bless Israel, the good Lord's beloved people and land. Now, good Lord, ya seen what them heathen terrorist a done to your people Israel, ya seen what they done to they kids, teaching um Jew-US-world hate in school, putting um on the front lines a war good Lord, ya seen um lying like crazy, voting terrorist into government, an filling their society and generations wid hate for your people God. Lord, I pray in Jesus' name, right now, that you wipe all the evil Islamofacists out with democracy Lord. God, let them now reap the terror and damage they have sown. NUMBER 1 REQUEST GOD: YOU SHOW THEM WHO'S BOSS - BECAUSE YOU SAID, YOU ARE THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC, AND JACOB, THAT YOU ARE THE GOD OF ISRAEL. I believe it, I know it, NOW YOU MAKE THOSE SCUMBAG ISLAMOFACISTS KNOW IT. AMEN.

the israel-palestine conflict and the desires of imperialism would be no terrorist

well another US tax payer $ going to Israel but nothing will help that want give Israel security when all this finish I can see that the only distination Israel will be able to fly this Airplane over it's sky as thes first condition will be that Israel have to respect Lebanon Sky and border and seas. may it will fly over the ME intl sea. let the US tax payers foot the bill of maintenace too.

well kiss 1559 Goodbye your Gov chowed us it's true color no one believe in it. even your so called ally in the Lebanese Governoment lost faith and this war showed what sort of people you are. as for you have no sorrow for people killed we never cared about the US opinion any way but let me tell you every D.. have it's day so enjoy it while you can.

Marc - you idiot, get all the data, otherwise, shutup.

Why? To re-establish a balance of power in the region we ought to sell F22's and munitions to Egypt, Jordan and Syria. Then lets see if the Jews will try to bomb other countries with impunity. Israel should hang its head in shame for its despicable acts against civilians. As an American I seriously question why my federal government continues to support these people. The Israeli's operate a huge spy network in the US and have penetrated the highest levels of our government.

has your grand nation come up with a grand armee lebanon stabilization force ?

I am sick and tired of hearing about Israel hitting civilians. They are used by the Islamic scum of the earth as human shields. Israel will not commit suicide in order to avoid hitting civilians. That is the name of the game. As for controlling the skies of the Middle East, the Arab air forces have always had numerical superiority, but they never succeded in shooting down a single Israeli plane, and so it will be in the future, no matter what you give them. As a good Christian, I say to Israel "Hook'm!".

A real Texan would never back a bunch of terrorist-supporting dictatorships over a country defending itself after its own soldiers were kidnapped in its own territory. This war should be a message to all countries that allow terrorists to have free reign. Let them take responsibility for allowing Hezbollah to entrench themselves on Lebanese soil. It would probably shock most of you here that AIPAC doesn't even provide money to political candidates...

As a good Christian, I say to Israel "Stop killing women and kids". If you want to fight Hezbollah, send your ground troops in and fight them, but do what ever it takes to stop killing INNOCENT men, women and children. Israel would be as bellicose if it didn't have technologically superior firepower. As I said, give the Arabs a fleet of F22's and lets see the Jews continue to be so damn eager to bomb cities outside of Israel.

The arabs have fleets of jets, they were supplied by the Russians and the French. When the arabs tried to fight like men and send in Armies Israel Crushed them. In 1948, 1956, 1967 and 1973. Thats when the swictched to hiding behind women and children and shooting israeli civilians.

extremely powerful. They yield an inordinate amount of inflence over our Congress, Senate, State Department and even our President. Its sickening the way that they have subverted our elected officials for the benefit of Israel. Our elected officials KNOW that it is political suicide to stand up and say that the Israeli Jews have to much influence in the halls of our Congress. Bubba, do you support the Israeli Air Force killing INNOCENT civilians? Is that what you are saying? Do you have the balls to say that killing civilians is wrong. And yes, Hezbollah indiscrimantly shooting rockets into Israel is wrong, dead wrong. Does two wrongs make a right? No. Let the warriors fight the warriors but Israel must do what is right - do not conduct military operations that will kill scores of INNOCENT civilians. Hezbollah must stop shooting rockets into Israel and Israel must stop bombing towns, villages and cities. Using military firepower against CIVILIANS is WRONG.

F-22 is fine man. But for the rest IDF should abandon the Patriot. Is plainly useless. Maybe an S-500U would be more apropriate.

Yes there are innocent lives lost on both ends. This is not a game. The question one should ask is... why do the Hezbollahs have rockets to begin with? How can a group like this get funded? When there are open threats made to the US (both yours and my country) by the president of Iran. Shouldn't you back up your own country? Iran supports Hezbollah, US supports Israel- this is no new news. Let's say you had a son, and found out he was hiding explosives. You told him, as a rule, you can't have these in the house. Instead of getting rid of it, he got his friends into explosives and added more and more into the collection. Not only has your son disobeyed the rules, he's involved more people and added more explosives. You then become afraid of your son and pretend you don't see the explosives. You soon find out that he's gone next door and kidnapped a boy and started bombing your neighbor's home. The mother and father of the house next to you tell you, "give us back our little boy or else we have no choice but to take further action. By the way, we have a huge family that will do anything to protect our boy and our home. We also heard that your little boy has been doing this to our neighbors across the street... " Mr. Austin, why would you continue to stand up for something you know was wrong from the start? I am an American-Christian, who was in Israel just a few months ago. I can tell you the country can be California's twin, very similar in beliefs, democracy, and civil mannorism. There's no oppression on women, they practice the right to vote through a democracy- like ours, and speak English starting at the age of 8. Great scientists and philosophers are Jewish, such as Sigmund Freud, Levi-strauss, & Albert Einstein. Israeli/Jews are not known for violence, they're recognized from education and Nobel prizes earned through their struggles, hard work, brilliant minds and dilligence. It's easy to sit there and feel sorry for yourself, but they don't- instead they defend themselves for a change- and people like yourself give them a hard time. They are strong people who know what they're doing. I trust them with F-22's more than any Arab country that is threatening my country! Go Israel! Go Israel! 1559!

it's part of their tactics. they know that hiding missles under buildings would definitely create conflict. they tell the civilians to stay in these 'designated buildings' and say, "they can't catch us now"... they know if they put civilians then they will either A. protect they're weapons because of their human shields or B. Create a hatred towards the Israelis, because so much focus is on these "innocent lives". Have we also forgotten the innocent lives that were bombed by suicide bombers towards US Marines (Oct 1983) and the innocent lives in buses, tourist spots, throughout Israel, Spain, India, the World Trade Center. The blame should really be redirected to the sourrce- the Hamas/Hezbollahs/Jihads of the WORLD- who used this as a tactic, because they know how to twist how us normal people think.. I understand innocence and feel for them, as you do, but Hezbollah knew out of the goodness of our hearts, this would cause a conflict between brothers and sisters.

And ah say: give the Arabs a fleet of F22's and let's see the Jews shoot them down like flies on a Longhorn's butt.

Your moral relatvism makes me agast. Yes two wrongs don't make a right. But the antaganist deserves your criticism not the defender. You must have finished university in America, only left wing educated people could come to your conclusion. Take you head out from between you legs and see the daylight. Besides your comments are bigotted and Anti-Semetic. You are an embarasment to eve yuorself.

It seems that you like to jump the gun in condemning Israel so much but what about when the US in Vietnam bombed the hell out of villages killing scores of civilians as well as dropping Nepalm on women and children atleast Israel warns all civilians to get out by dropping leaflets even when it warns the terrorists too. And by the way Israel can't help but kill some civilians because Hizbullah don't fight like warriors, istead they shoot hide behind civilians. Goes to show you how knowledgeable you are! i

Israel doesnt need to kidnapp they just destroy the building on their head or send them an air-gound missile and blow them up to pieces. Blowing themselves up that the only thing they can do to fight the occupation of Palestine. I can guarantie you that if the USA give the palestenian an F-22 they won't blow themseleves up and will fight a traditional war. Your remarks make me think you are brainwashed and don't use common logic. remember these guys are fighting on their land , Israel is fighting palestenians on palestenians land. So wake up

Why don't you use the taxpayer dollars to feed the hungry in the USA and pay for health for the uninsured and improve school program. The 200 millions dollar the price for one F-22 can go long way is helping african american and other people in need. Keep in mind that your salary is coming from us the taxpayer

What data are you talking about? if you had any data you would not be writing this response. I though Candian were better than this but what a pitty. It seems you are the village idiot.

Alon, Killing INNOCENT men, women and children is wrong - every time, all the time. You call me an anti-semite because I dare to say something negative about Israeli Jews and their tactics in this incursion into Lebanon and inordinate influence within American government. Do you approve of killing scores of INNOCENT civilians by military firepower? I support Israel when their morals line up with the laws of G_d.

Alon, how the heck do you see Mark's comments as biggoted or anti-Semitic? I'm Jewish, and I thought he gave a very rational assessment of the situation. Killing innocents is WRONG, be they Muslim or Jew. To call him anti-Semitic is simply incorrect.

In my previous comment (#2) what I was basically saying was; what does it matter if you use F-22's, F-16's or WW2 Mustangs for that matter, if your Air Force is alone in the skies and the enemy has no means to retaliate, wether it be from the air or from the ground? The toughest job in this war has got to be that of the IDF ground forces....and certainly not that of the IAF pilots.

Aviv, I sense some racial undertones in your comments. I do drink some Pepsi, but strictly the diet version, but prefer juices. I don't eat poutine, nor do I put vinegar on my fries....:) The French have done nothing you say? But neither has the rest of the world.....Thanks to the vetoes which the world has witnessed at the UN. The EU is giving Israel a free reign? I think it's more like Mrs Bush, Blair and our own Stephen Harper giving Israel a "free reign". As far as your comment regarding what the Catholic priests taught me/us regarding the jews and as you say "the jews being the problem" let me assure you that what I recall was more like; 1) we must accept and respect the Jews because Jesus-Christ was a Jew (implying that Jews have to be good people since Jesus was a good man), and, 2) Jesus taught us that we are all God's children, we are all God's chosen people. Have a good day!