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The Passion of the Toys [More photos from Beirut]
Slublog ^ | August 08, 2006 | Slublog

Posted on 08/08/2006 12:51:07 PM PDT by PajamaTruthMafia

The Passion of the Toys

In Platoon, Oliver Stone said the first casualty of war is innocence.

He was wrong.

As the photos here show, the first casualties of war are...the symbols of innocence. And photographers from Reuters and the AP just happened upon many of these perfectly placed symbols of war's horrors.


Ben Curtis, AP


Sharif Karim, Reuters


Sharif Karim, Reuters


Sharif Karim, Reuters


Issam Kobeisi, Reuters


Mohamed Azakir, Reuters

This last one is the only one that seems...untouched.

Feel the pathos. Mourn for these oh-so-photogenic and suspiciously dust-free trinkets of childhood.

Just don't ask any questions about their veracity.

That would be wrong.


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Boy that Sharif Karim from Reuters has a real nose for stuffed animals!
1 posted on 08/08/2006 12:51:17 PM PDT by PajamaTruthMafia
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To: PajamaTruthMafia

Limbaugh was making the point today on his radio that staged photos were as big a concern as the doctored variety.


2 posted on 08/08/2006 12:53:10 PM PDT by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: PajamaTruthMafia

All but the bottom one seem awwwffuuullll clean given they are in a pile of rubble.

PLEASE let's start a campaign when these scumbags start with the staged phony photos. Does LGF have these pictures?


3 posted on 08/08/2006 12:53:22 PM PDT by sandbar
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To: PajamaTruthMafia

Pure unadulterated demagoguery.


4 posted on 08/08/2006 12:53:43 PM PDT by Catholic Canadian (Formerly Ashamed Canadian - thank you Stephen Harper!)
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To: PajamaTruthMafia

Always knew Reuters was a Mickey Mouse operation.


5 posted on 08/08/2006 12:54:25 PM PDT by 6SJ7
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To: PajamaTruthMafia

Notice how in each picture, the only items that show no signs of having been in the blast are the toys, which are in pristine condition and were obviously planted. And the holier-than-thou, smarter-than-you MSM falls for this crap! Over and over!


6 posted on 08/08/2006 12:54:29 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: PajamaTruthMafia

Isn't it odd that none of the stuffed toys are burned, soot-stained or even dusty?


7 posted on 08/08/2006 12:54:36 PM PDT by CholeraJoe (USAF Air Rescue "That others may live.")
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He plays with these...


8 posted on 08/08/2006 12:54:39 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim (Crazier than a rattlesnake at a Thai wedding)
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To: PajamaTruthMafia

Is this a spoof??


9 posted on 08/08/2006 12:54:42 PM PDT by Mo1 (Bolton- "No one has explained how you negotiate a ceasefire with terrorists")
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To: Catholic Canadian

More amazing is such an AMERICAN symbol as Mickey Mouse being there.


10 posted on 08/08/2006 12:54:49 PM PDT by Catholic Canadian (Formerly Ashamed Canadian - thank you Stephen Harper!)
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To: PajamaTruthMafia

I think that's a real tiger...


11 posted on 08/08/2006 12:54:49 PM PDT by goalinestan (Build it...and they won't come (as easily))
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To: PajamaTruthMafia

This stuff is so Mickey Mouse!


12 posted on 08/08/2006 12:54:51 PM PDT by LikeLight
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Is it me or are the stuffed animals a lot cleaner then everything around them


13 posted on 08/08/2006 12:54:53 PM PDT by MANO
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To: PajamaTruthMafia

Wow, not a speck of dust on that Minnie Mouse doll.


14 posted on 08/08/2006 12:56:28 PM PDT by Sloth ('It Takes A Village' is problematic when you're raising your child in Sodom.)
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To: PajamaTruthMafia

I was a reporter myself, and this is one horror story from my front lines: I knew of a photographer who carried a child's shoe with him so he could strategically place it in a photo of a car accident to give it extra pathos. That was on a small weekly paper in the Northwest; doctoring photos in the Middle East doesn't surprise me one bit.


15 posted on 08/08/2006 12:56:50 PM PDT by redpoll (redpoll)
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At least Micky and Minnie look like they were dropped into the frame. The Tiger looks like some kid was playing with 30 seconds before the pic was taken.
16 posted on 08/08/2006 12:56:58 PM PDT by MAexile (Bats left, votes right)
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You saw the quick vacuum cleaning too, eh?


17 posted on 08/08/2006 12:57:50 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but Hillary's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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What gay toys. I'd feel a whole lot worse if there were cool toys, like one of those Power Rangers Jeeps that shoot the real rockets and have the lights that go on and stuff. Those kids look like real dorks.


18 posted on 08/08/2006 12:58:05 PM PDT by End Times Sentinel (In Memory of my Dear Friend Henry Lee II)
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To: PajamaTruthMafia

A Lebanese man holds toys from his destroyed apartment in southern Beirut, a Hizbollah stronghold that was targeted by the Israeli air strikes, July 27, 2006. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir

Doubt it is his apartment, and he certainly he wouldn't save a teletubbie without prompting!

19 posted on 08/08/2006 12:59:09 PM PDT by Shermy
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