EVIDENCE MOUNTS THAT KANA "MASSACRE" WAS A FAKE -- Western Press Suckered Again!

"The identity of the victims was not clear, except that they were not the original inhabitants of the building; a National Public Radio correspondent reported that they had left. . . . Who were these people?"

Were they, perhaps, people that Hezbollah was only too happy to get rid of, so they were moved into the building before Hezbollah blew it up? The dead little boy with the deformed foot suggests that the children might have been sick or crippled or orphans, and the women similarly "disposable" in Hezbollah's view. When I first saw the photos I was surprised that the boy's deformed foot had not been exploited, e.g. "Look, the Israelis killed a child who could not run away".
Now I think the child may have been chosen deliberately by H. to die because they viewed him as a useless nuisance and therefore a good candidate for sacrifice.

The Hesbollah has successfully pushed the hot buttons of the Western Media. This story is a replay of the My Lai Massacre that occurred in the Quang Ngai Province of South Viet Nam March 16, 1968. This was a time when insurgents from North Viet Nam, using asymmetrical warfare tactics (something the MSM is stone cold senseless about), used the civilian population to shelter and support their guerrilla operations. When U.S. soldiers, frustrated from ambushes by the Viet Cong , massacred an estimated 500 men women and children, the press went ballistic when the story emerged a year later. This single incident turned world opinion against the United States' effort in Viet Nam and won the journalist, Seymour Hersh a Pulitzer Prize for breaking the story November, 1969.

I give this background because I am certain that this mechanism for turning public opinion against a war effort has become the template by the press since then. The writing of Seymour Hersh continues even today with his story "The Grey Zone" in the New Yorker Magazine which tries to link the behavior at Abu Ghraib Prison to the policy of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. This is all a pattern of operations by the press to put together the exact elements which caused such a monumental policy shift when it broke the My Lai incident.

Before this gets too long and boring, let me summarize: we at the Free Republic must all be saying in a collective disgust, "Oh no! Not this $**t again!"

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