Posted on 09/02/2013 8:00:29 AM PDT by Timber Rattler
Photographer Marco di Lauro said he nearly “fell off his chair” when he saw the image being used, and said he was “astonished” at the failure of the corporation to check their sources.
The picture, which was actually taken on March 27, 2003, shows a young Iraqi child jumping over dozens of white body bags containing skeletons found in a desert south of Baghdad.
It was posted on the BBC news website today under the heading “Syria massacre in Houla condemned as outrage grows”.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
I had no idea Obama’s Press Corpse had a London Bureau. Shame on me.
I guess they didn’t have any stock photos of Auschwitz on hand to use.
Or the purported bombing by Israel years ago which showed photoshopped smoke that was identical in all bombings.
The old media still doesn’t understand the internet. 20, perhaps even 10 years ago, they would have been able to get away with that.
They didn’t learn anything from ‘Fake but Accurate’ Dan Rather and his daughter.
Now, about that Obama “birth certificate”.....
Just to be clear, is this the same massacre that caused so much outrage that Parliament voted against retaliation?
A video is going around (BBC, and other media) showing the result of a supposed napalm attack on a school in Syria.
We know from previous ME incidents, attacks, wars, etc., that they typically embellish and photoshop — because they know the liberal Western media will eat it up.
Two related FR threads:
Syria: 'napalm' bomb dropped on school playground, BBC claims
Burned student: We will crush you, Assad
They had a POV and they intended to support it. regardless of decpetion had to be engaged in.
the famous tearful Iraqi women ..arms hoisted in the air.. who appeared in many war photos bewailing one demolished home after another...comes to mind.
perhaps the syrians can get her a new job
This revelation comes as a Euro-newspaper reports Obama's own military do not believe him.
NOTE: THIS IS AN EDITED TRANSLATION AND MAY NOT BE FULLY ACCURATE Even more embarrassing for Obama, retired Lieutenant General Gregory S. Newbold posted: "The politicians are naive about the obligations that exist in foreign policy. Many are shockingly clueless about what can achieve a military operation. Newbold lead cadres in the Iraq war. He said that many of his colleagues share his active serious concerns.
An officer who commented anonymously, said: "I can not believe that the president ever takes this step into consideration. In the past 10 years we have been fighting against insurgents. Syria has advanced weapons systems. We would be in a classic war. "
Already in the past week Gen. Martin Dempsey, head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, pointed to the heedlessness pointed of Obama administration. He told ABC : "The simple use of weapons, without a precise strategy, such as the use contemplated, probably never leads to the conclusion that we imagine."
General James Mattis said: "If the Americans actually perform such an operation, then that is a brutal, very, very serious war. "
Another active officer said: "What political end do we want to achieve? I do not know what it is.
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SUMMING UP Obama's got no NATO support, no US support, no Arab League support (for military action), no big powers support, and little or no support from the non-worshipful-citizen types.
“dozens of body bags”
Yesterday it was “hundreds”. Was this a massacre or a ‘million man march’?
BBC is a left wing pr outlet for progressive liars in the UK, Eurotrash Countries and America.
Thanks for the ping.
BBC makes CNN look truthful and balanced.
Remember the Green Man/doctor who just happened to be in so many pictures in Iraq? There was a thread here during that time of photo journalists doing posed pictures. Anyone still have that link?
A current Moroccan official familiar with the situation provided his assessment ...
“SUMMING UP Obama’s got no NATO support, no US support, no Arab League support (for military action), no big powers support, and little or no support from the non-worshipful-citizen types. “
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Mark Steyn:
The administration’s ingenious plan is to lose this war in far less time than we usually take. In the unimprovable formulation of an unnamed official speaking to the Los Angeles Times, the White House is carefully calibrating a military action “just muscular enough not to get mocked....”
So what do we want in Syria? Obama can’t say, other than for him to look muscular without being mocked, like a camp bodybuilder admiring himself in the gym mirror....
Meanwhile, the hyperpower is going to war because Obama wandered off prompter and accidentally made a threat.
In Syria, U.S. goal ‘not to get mocked’
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