Reply #91: I have no idea why my careful reply . .

[msmcghee]

. . was deleted - but small or large - missiles are not fired straight down from above their target. The size of the missile has nothing to do with it.

But even accepting that, the hole in the roof was about 1 foot in diameter. Air to Ground missiles that large are typically used against very hard targets. Concrete command bunkers, active artillery emplacements, large tanks, etc. They are very expensive and heavy and are typically fired by fighter bombers - not helicopters. Smart bombs are much cheaper for most larger targets.

The idea that large Air to Ground (close to a million dollars each) would be used to attack an ambulance that could be totally destroyed with a burst of 20mm canon fire (probably about $50.00) just doesn't make sense. Militaries typically don't have a lot of those expensive missiles in inventory and would tend to save them for very high-value targets.

You are suggesting that Israel wasted two, million-dollar weapons (that apparently failed to explode but then totally disappeared) on a couple of ambulances holding injured civilians - so the world could then accuse Israel of war crimes that are serious enough that many Americans would demand that the US withdraw military aid to Israel. Does that make sense to you somehow?

A small missle does not make a hole that's a foot in diameter. But no matter what size missile it was, where are the slots in the roof that the fins would cut as they entered? Even if they were sheared off by the thin sheet metal of the roof (very unlikely) they would have bent the metal back. But there is an extremely clean hole there - perfectly round with no fins marks or cuts. The round hole looks like it was cut with a sheet metal tool.

That's because it was. No missile went through the roof of that ambulance. Everything about the story is nonsense. Not one part of it holds up.