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To: BlueSky194
Israelis will not be able to investigate this claim directly. The question remains whether honest men and women of other nationalities will let this likely lie stand or press for the revelation of the improbable and inconvenient truth.

Good luck with that: dead bodies are, as always, a feeding frenzy for the media.

Journalists -- CNN comes to mind -- have documented the fact that Hezbollah controls media access to these scenes of civilian casualties, and doesn't allow cameras on the scene until they have set the stage (cleared the ordnance, etc.) for maximum media impact.

Storing dead bodies, whether used in this case or not, isn't a new trick either. It's been reported that Saddam would store the dead bodies of children in advance of planned demonstrations showcasing the alleged affects of the boycott -- marching the bodies of dead children through the streets.

When the west comes to the realization that the pictures of these dead -- so shocking and heartbreaking to civilized sensibilities -- mean absolutely nothing to those whose sensibilities have been distorted and deadened from childhood by brutal child-rearing practices and violent ideology, we may then be able to summon the courage to resist the manipulation and defeat the ruthless.

7 posted on 07/31/2006 2:44:53 AM PDT by browardchad
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To: browardchad

When it first was being reported, I suggested that the dead might be "political unreliables" who were being used for cover. Now I wonder if some "undesirable" families had been killed just for the media showcase


35 posted on 07/31/2006 3:47:53 AM PDT by SauronOfMordor (A planned society is most appealing to those with the arrogance to think they will be the planners)
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To: browardchad

Years ago when I was in high school, my American History teacher voiced some leftist criticism of the U.S. saying, "They mourn for their dead the same way Americans mourn for ours." At that time she was speaking about the Vietnamese people, but over the years I've come to realize that NO, not all cultures view and value life in the same way, Muslims in particular.


97 posted on 07/31/2006 7:27:43 AM PDT by ChocChipCookie (Democrats: soulless minions of orthodoxy.)
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To: browardchad

I noticed in the footage yesterday that the only rescue scenes were of like one guy digging a hole in a basement. There wasn't any urgency, there wasn't any real effort -- seems like he was leaning on the shovel a bit. Certainly none of the frenzy one sees in Paliwood productions. Perhaps Hezbollywood has a bit to learn about fabricating attacks.


123 posted on 07/31/2006 12:05:25 PM PDT by ichabod1 (I have to take a shower.)
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