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We need to get out of the UN....
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   ....[1]NOW.

     The New York Sun is also reporting that one of those UN troops
     killed in the Israeli air strike had emailed the following report:
     A Canadian U.N. observer, one of four killed at a UNIFIL position
     near the southern Lebanese town of Khiyam on Tuesday, sent an
     e-mail to his former commander, a Canadian retired major-general,
     Lewis MacKenzie, in which he wrote that Hezbollah fighters were
     "all over" the U.N. position, Mr. MacKenzie said. Hezbollah troops,
     not the United Nations, were Israel's target, the deceased observer
     wrote.
     If true, then the UN public statement that there was no known
     Hezbollah activity for five kilometers from the UN position, is
     exposed as a lie.
     Indeed, given the tremendously compressed battlefield that exists
     on the northern Israeli frontier, I think the notion that there was
     no known Hezbollah activity for five klicks that day is already
     absurd on its face. For the attacks to be legit, there does not
     need to be Hezbollah activity. Only a Hezbollah presence.
     More:
     "We've received e-mails from him a few days ago and he was
     describing the fact that he was taking fire within, in one case,
     three meters of his position âfor tactical necessity â not being
     targeted,'" Mr. MacKenzie said he wrote.

     In one such e-mail, obtained by The New York Sun, Hess-von
     Kruedener wrote about heavy IDF artillery and aerial bombardment
     "within 2 meters of our position." The Israeli shooting, he added,
     "has not been deliberate targeting, but has rather been due to
     tactical necessity."
     The correspondence between the trooper and former commander
     amounted to "veiled speech in the military," Mr. MacKenzie, who
     once commanded the U.N. troops in Bosnia, told the CBC. "What he
     was telling us was Hezbollah fighters were all over his position
     and the IDF were targeting them, and that's a favorite trick by
     people who don't have representation in the U.N. They use the U.N.
     as shields knowing that they cannot be punished for it."

   Yet rather than condemn Hezbollah, Kofi Annan calls for Israel to
   commit to an immediate ceasefire, and liberals scream about the lack
   of proportionality on the part of Israel.
   It's a totally insane world when one side can routinely commit war
   crimes yet enjoy strong support while the other side can't even
   approach the general area of "abuse" without a loud chorus of
   complaints raining down on them.
   We should do what Israel is doing -- ignore the critics and kill the
   terrorists.

References

   1. http://iraqnow.blogspot.com/2006/07/hezbollah-using-un-troops-as-human.html