Photos: Palestinians milking the death of Rachel Corrie for the media.

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[dennisw]

Mon Mar 17,12:15 PM ET

Palestinian medical workers carry a mock coffin covered by a Palestinian flag for Rachel Corrie, 23, from Olympia, Wash., a member of the 'International Solidarity Movement' during a memorial services in front of United Nations (news - web sites) headquarters in Gaza city, Monday March 17, 2003. Corrie was run over and crushed to death by an Israeli army bulldozer Sunday, March 16, 2003 while she was trying to stop it from tearing down a building in the Rafah refugee camp, witnesses said. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Mon Mar 17,11:41 AM ET

Palestinian children carry a mock coffin covered by an American flag for Rachel Corrie, 23, from Olympia, Wash., a member of the 'International Solidarity Movement' during a memorial service at the Rafah refugee camp in the southern of Gaza strip, Monday, March 17, 2003. Corrie was run over and crushed to death by an Israeli army bulldozer Sunday, March 16, 2003 while she was trying to stop it from tearing down a building in the Rafah refugee camp, witnesses said. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra).

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[dennisw]

I'm confused. Why are they under the impression that anybody but her family would care about her plight?
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Plenty of Lefties and Muslims care and will make good propaganda with it. I care too and wish she hadn't wasted her life on such nonsense. She was playing a game of chicken and lost.

[MississippiMan]

Can't figure out whether they want to burn our flags or carry them reverently through the streets?

MM

[Jimmy Valentine]

When you say dumb, you say a lot of things nobody else can say. When you say 'dumbweiser' you've said it all. (Apologies to Budweiser)

Regards,

[ambrose]

Does anyone remember Amy Biehl?

[Amerigomag]

Here's a picture of the accident, posted by her local newspaper, taken by her friends just after the dozer backed away from the building.

http://www.theolympian.com/home/news/20030317/frontpage/22418.shtml

[dead]

Sorry she's flat, but she really looked like the most annoying person you'd ever not want to meet.

[adaven]

Last week she was wrong. Now she is flat wrong

I'm just crushed over this I tell ya.

She should have been burning the "DON'T TREAD ON ME" flag.

[Jimmy Valentine]

"Caterpillar" accept no substitutes. I guess we will just have to "track" this one on the issue of motive.

Even in the sixties I never saw anyone so mother loving dumb.

Regards,

[O.C. - Old Cracker]

Who was the physician who house the bulldozer was destroying? What was the crime the doctor had convicted for that his house being destroyed? What explanation is the IDF offering after its initial report that this young American woman ran in front of the bulldozer, when the photos clearly show her simply standing, not moving, in a brightly colored coat and what looks like a bullhorn?

Evidently she wouldn't move, so the IDF moved her. Being naive does not give you the freedom to interfere in someone else's conflict and not expect to get roughed up. Just ask a policeman about the joys of breaking up domestic squabbles. He'd just as soon avoid them. Young Rachel should have stayed home.

[SouthernFreebird]

They are such Idiots.... everyone knows after being run over by a tank you don't need a coffin that large. :-)

[jiggyboy]

To paraphrase a poster on the original thread, that coffin is the wrong size -- it should be ten feet long and two inches thick.

[pankot]

So she found out the 'dozer was more solid than her movement...

[Sloth]

I'm sure someone will tell me this is tasteless:

[krodriguesdc]

anytime an American is killed by a foreign nation it is cause for rebuke!

[CarolAnn]

"Now why would they put an American flag on her mock coffin when she was burning one just the other day ???"

They'll burn it when their little parade is over. (They don't care a thing for her. She's just another infidel)

[Mike-o-Matic]

Tasteless, yes. Funny? Hellyeah.

[dennisw]

From the news: Corrie, 23, a student at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, died Sunday in the Gaza Strip city of Rafah while trying to stop a bulldozer from tearing down a Palestinian physician’s home. She fell in front of the machine, which ran over her and backed up, witnesses said.

Who was the physician who house the bulldozer was destroying?

His name was in the news but I forget

What was the crime the doctor had convicted for that his house being destroyed?

I don't know. Rafah is a Gaza refugee camp right on the Egyptian border. There are many tunnels used for arms smuggling and Israel is often down there demolishing tunnels and arresting gun smugglers. There's often gunfire. Houses have been condemned/demolished that have been used for arms smuggling

Egypt turns a blind eye to this weapons smuggling. There are allegations the Egyptian army assists it.

The doctor's house was empty, vacated, on the list to be demolished. Not all doctors are angels. Dr. Rantisi is the head of Hamas.

[goodieD]

I feel bad for her parents, period. She wanted to be a human shield, and she was one (not a very good one mind you). Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. May God have mercy on her soul.

[Revolting cat!]

Tasteless BUMP!