Smart Weapons? Juan Is Obviously Not In That Arsenal (VIDEO)

July 24, 2006 Are You Kidding Me?, Israel, Video, War on Terror View Comments

I thought Juan might have learned his lesson with Laura Ingraham on Friday’s Factor, but apparently not. Hell, even his DNC Talking Points haven’t changed one iota.

Laura on Friday, Incredulous at Juan’s Rantings…

On Fox News Sunday, the panel was, of course, disussing the Israeli/Hezbollah war. And again, like on Friday, Juan talks about the inordinate amount of damage, intentional and collateral, the Israelis are inflicting on innocent Lebanese. Hey, Juan… haven’t you heard? The Israelis are dropping leaflets, TELLING citizens to move to safety, at the risk of revealing their war plans to Hezbollah. I’m very sorry that Lebanon hasn’t been strong enough to reign in Hezbollah, but U.N. Resolution 1559 demanded it. Israel has given concession after concession after concession, all with promises that violence from Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and Hezbollah would stop… if only Israel would vacate Gaza, blah, blah, and more blah. Were the promises ever kept? Nope. When the final concession was made to leave Gaza, even after the horrible scenes of Israelis being physically removed from their homes in the settlements, Hamas immediately began firing rockets into Israel. They trashed every economic and commerce structure inside Gaza, and basically gutted the place. So Israel got the shaft again for appeasing the terrorists.

Hey, America and the rest of the world…. are you paying attention? Israel has been appeasing the terrorists, and none of the promises made to them were kept. Do you honestly think that if we appease Al Qaeda, et. al that they’ll stop their violent, bloody Jihadi campaign to kill all infidels? If you answered yes, you need to have your head checked.

As usual, several of the other panelists had their “did he just really say that?” moments with Juan, as did Laura Ingraham on Friday (see photo above). I am going to start highlighting these every time Juan acts like an idiot and leaves other guests with their jaws agape.

Here is the best part of the transcript:

GIGOT: The best thing you can do for the Lebanese government is to degrade and disarm Hezbollah because the weaker Hezbollah is as a military force, the more it will have to remain a political party, play a role in Lebanon. And the more you strengthen the Lebanese army and the Lebanese…

WILLIAMS: But this undermines our basic theory that Secretary Rice is taking over to the Middle East this weekend, which is to get the Arab states to act as a buffer between Hezbollah and the Lebanese government and Israel and the United States, because what you’re doing is you have the Arab leadership now willing to go to Rome and talk with Secretary Rice.

But the people — the people are angry at Israel and the United States and see this as a one-sided deal, the U.S. speeding delivery of more military munitions, more of those F-15 U.S.-made fighter jets bombing away at Lebanon. How do you imagine that that won’t result in animosity and generations of people who are just furious?

Are you kidding me, Juan?

GIGOT: So you’re furious because we’re sending targeted weapons, these smart weapons that can explicitly …

WILLIAMS: Have you seen the pictures, Paul?

I’m biting my tongue on this one.

GIGOT: Look, it’s a very difficult situation. But the smart weapons actually do less damage. We ought to speed more weapons over there because they’ll do less damage to civilians.

WILLIAMS: I think the weapons they’re speeding over there are those bunker busters that are going to do more damage.

You’re not serious, are you Juan?

GIGOT: Thank God for the bunker busters, because…

KRISTOL: Yes, there aren’t a lot of civilians…

GIGOT: … that means you’re going to get these people 100 feet down.

KRISTOL: There aren’t a lot of innocent Lebanese civilians in bunkers. It’s the senior leadership of Hezbollah, and they need to be killed.

WILLIAMS: Well, General…

KRISTOL: And this operation will fail, I’m afraid…

WILLIAMS: But, General Kristol, General Kristol…

KRISTOL: … if they don’t succeed in wiping out…

WILLIAMS: … you understand we’re fighting people who are a guerrilla unit. They hide in civilian — they hide in apartment buildings, under apartment buildings. So we’re saying okay, we know you’ve got to go get them, and we’re apparently saying therefore go get the Lebanese…

Well, let me tell you something!

KRISTOL: I’m sorry, the Israeli army broadcasts and drops leaflets telling civilians to leave.

WILLIAMS: OK.

KRISTOL: They’ve done that throughout south Lebanon.

WILLIAMS: True.

KRISTOL: They’ve been incredibly careful. They’ve aborted bombing raids when they’ve said there were too many civilians that might be killed. The U.S. and Israeli armies have conducted the wars in Iraq and this war in Lebanon with incredible attempts to minimize civilian damages.