Quote (Goomshill @ May 15 2011 08:31pm)
Take a little harder look at that map, you ignoramus.
Notice that country called "Lebanon"?
Gee whiz, did it ever occur to you that lebanon has katyushas and hamas has qassams?
You're trying to talk about tinker toys and high tech equipment like they're the same thing. You're clueless.
Rofl, qassams are not katyushas. They're not even god damn russian you idiot. You don't even understand the etymology of the word itself, much less the terminology.
Are you so totally clueless? You don't understand the terms, you screwed up, and instead of admitting your mistake you try to skew and lie to pretend you were right, even when its painfully obvious.
I can help spell out the differences to you in terms children could understand, if that helps;
http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/weapons/q0279.shtmlIf you still can't grasp that the Qassam and Katyusha are two completely disparate types of rockets, I pity you.
Hell, read the wikipedia page, even that will enlighten you;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qassam%5FrocketQassam are a very specific type of rocket used in a very specific type of role- homemade rockets fired from the gaza strip into israel. There is no other kind of qassam. They are not synonymous with katyushas. Katyushas are a truckmounted artillery war vehicle made from specific military designs of multiple types. Qassams are ad hoc and only refer to those used by the palestinians. This is all basics, basics. Anyone who has been alive for the past 10 years and hasn't had their fingers in their ears humming loud as they can should know the difference, its been plastered over every source of news there is. Yet somehow, despite all that, you fail me
Haha, you silly damn americans. Everyone who isn't on your side is a terrorist, are they?
If you massacre people and someone complains, they're either a terrorist or a communist, right?
Well fuck you, how about that? My family has done more for generations to fight tyranny and terrorism and genocide then you could really imagine.
You think people just rolled over when twats like Mccarthy called people anti-american communists, too?
Its the same shit, different phrasing.
Oh, they sure have, and theres a thousand ways they could deal with it, and they have a knack for choosing most of the worst.
Haha, you couldn't be more wrong, ignorant american with your prolific cheeseburger knowledge.
Seems like thats the only thing you're good for.
I'm not from europe and you don't have the foggiest clue who I am or where I'm from, and I revel in that. You can waggle your flag all day long, all it shows is your ignorance of contemporary geopolitics.
You don't know the basics of distinction between conflicts, you don't know one state from the other (you still haven't grasped the lebanon =/= palestine thing),
I bet you're one of those koolaid drinkers that voted for bush and thought iraq had WMD's and that the taliban and al-qaeda are the same thing and don't know what "sunnis" and "shiites" are, haha.
You seem so skilled on explaining to me the differences of American and European Mcdonalds with their Royales and Quarter Pounders and Big Macs, please, enlighten me more. Its about the only things you've said so far that are sane.
Do all americans share such an expertise in the culinary arts? Rahahahahaha.
Its still so incomprehensible to your pinsized harebrain that anyone could oppose israel and not be antisemitic, that anyone could be against israel but not be for arabs (or as you would put it, a terrorist sympathizer, bwahaha), that anyone could not vote for george w. bush.
Your world view just doesn't accommodate the complexity of the modern world. You are the people responsible for Sarah Palin, for thinking russia is visible on the horizon from anchorage and can't name a single magazine.
Gods on your side, I'm sure of it.
I don't think I can put it any more succinctly, and if you can't get your feeble mind wrapped around it, it's just not worth any more time: The term Katyusha encompasses multiple variants of the same general weapon, and Qassam falls into that category, and a Katyusha rocket
is not a high-tech piece of equipment. It has NO guidance. We're not talking about a "fire and forget missile," we're talking about un-aimed rockets more akin to "fire and hope." Regardless, in a 2006 offensive, rockets killed 53 people and injured more than 2000, HARDLY analogous to your stupid vending machine meme.
MANY Katyusha's aren't Russian, hence the use of the generic term Katyusha for rockets of multiple different manufactures. I simply AM NOT trying to imply that Palestinians are well armed with Soviet era rockets, but I am definitely pointing out to your cro magnon (lack of) intellect that Qassams
are Katyushas, just of less reliable manufacture. It doesn't have to be of Russian manufacture to be termed a Katyusha. From your aerospaceweb link:
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The weapons Hezbollah uses most frequently are collectively referred to as Katyusha (pronounced car-too-zuh) rockets. However, the Katyusha was actually one specific type of rocket used during World War II though the term has since become synonoymous with a wide variety of different rocket types.
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Though technocally not Katyushas, newer rockets have continued to be referred to by this name.
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Iran, in particular, began building its own copies of the Soviet Katyusha as well as improved models and supplied many thousands of these to terrorist groups for attacks against Israel. Once manufactured in Iran, the rockets were transported through Syria to militants in Lebanon.
A Qassam is a sub-variant of what is generally understood (unless we're talking about you-probably a self-loathing American based on your use of "our military") of a Katyusha. It's like the difference between genus and species.
A rocket simply does not have to be truck-mounted, Soviet manufactured equipment to be known as a Katyusha.
Feel free to dig up an internet geography test, and we can both take it, and we'll see who knows what the fuck is where, and who's entitled to call the other ignorant.
I didn't call you a terrorist, I called you a terrorist apologist. Note the difference.
Lastly, do you spend all of your time building straw men to knock down?
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