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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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To: the beholder

Oh God...I did NOT want to laugh....but I had to!


141 posted on 08/08/2006 3:21:30 PM PDT by Suzy Quzy ("When Cabals Go Kaboom"....upcoming book on Mary McCarthy's Coup-Plotters.)
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142 posted on 08/08/2006 3:27:13 PM PDT by monkapotamus
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To: PajamaTruthMafia


Guaranteed un-retouched photo from Reuters.
143 posted on 08/08/2006 3:27:44 PM PDT by reagan_fanatic (Get off my lawn!)
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To: PajamaTruthMafia
Image hosted by Photobucket.com is this the same guy what put the stones on the beach for SlickWillie to play with in front of the cameras???

any statistician will tell you the odds of finding THAT many perfect pictures is incalculable... ie fixed.

144 posted on 08/08/2006 3:37:25 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist ©®)
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To: Shermy
That one must have slipped by the Global Photo Editor. Let me see if I can fix it:


145 posted on 08/08/2006 3:41:00 PM PDT by PajamaTruthMafia
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To: PajamaTruthMafia

Photogs with muzzie names.


146 posted on 08/08/2006 3:51:13 PM PDT by gotribe (It's not a religion.)
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To: PajamaTruthMafia
Fauxtography!
147 posted on 08/08/2006 4:26:07 PM PDT by finnman69 (cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestu s globus, inflammare animos)
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To: LoudRepublicangirl
When one of those guys is pictured recovering an Easy Bake Oven that's when my tears will fall......

What I miss seeing is all the toy guns, toy bombs, toy suicide belts...

What would make me cry would be a ST:TOS Original Bridge Set, with Spin Action Transporter.

148 posted on 08/08/2006 4:26:08 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch (Islam: a Satanically Transmitted Disease, spread by unprotected intimate contact with the Koranus.)
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To: Sloth
Wow, not a speck of dust on that Minnie Mouse doll. Well, at least we know what the "photojournalists" mean when they say they were just removing the dust and scratches. ; D.
149 posted on 08/08/2006 4:29:12 PM PDT by pollyannaish
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To: f zero
So how come nothing ever falls on the toys?

I don't know, but if I'm ever stuck near a terrorist...I'm hanging out with the toys.

150 posted on 08/08/2006 4:34:37 PM PDT by pollyannaish
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To: Shermy

HEY, look at what he's got in his left hand!

Isn't that the very same Minnie Mouse as in the picture at the top of this thread?!


151 posted on 08/08/2006 4:38:12 PM PDT by HKMk23 (Blessed is the Nation who's God is YHVH.)
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To: HungarianGypsy

They also look VERY western. Does anyone know if that is common in this area?


152 posted on 08/08/2006 4:40:23 PM PDT by pollyannaish
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To: PajamaTruthMafia
Here's another staged photo:

(not hot-linkable -- Corbis photo)

Notice the rocks placed "just so" -- one large one under it, two in from of it -- so as to prop up the undusted, undamaged photo perfectly for the camera.

153 posted on 08/08/2006 4:41:00 PM PDT by FreedomCalls (It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
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To: HKMk23; PajamaTruthMafia

PajamaTruthMafia is playing with you.

Shows how easy this product is to manipulate.


154 posted on 08/08/2006 4:41:48 PM PDT by Shermy
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To: musicman

Probably one in every major Hezzie villiage. I would not doubt that some of the double as them Local Cooter, too.

If he can't rent or sell a replacement, he'll fall back to fixing what ails...for the right price.


155 posted on 08/08/2006 4:42:07 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch (Islam: a Satanically Transmitted Disease, spread by unprotected intimate contact with the Koranus.)
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To: Shermy

A Lebanese man holds toys he will plant for photographers.


156 posted on 08/08/2006 4:42:28 PM PDT by RetSignman (New York Times.."All the news that fits our agenda")
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To: mewzilla

You Guys MUST SEE THIS VIDEO, It explains everything...


http://youtube.com/watch?v=t_B1H-1opys ^


157 posted on 08/08/2006 4:49:18 PM PDT by FreeAndRight
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To: PajamaTruthMafia

If you people keep up this atrocious debunking of our stories and photographs, you will force us to amend the copyright laws, to exclude any "fair use" or discussion, except by qualified journalists

(SS)
AP
Rooters
AFPPPants
Commies for Peace
BBC
Dan Rather
....


158 posted on 08/08/2006 4:51:26 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch (Islam: a Satanically Transmitted Disease, spread by unprotected intimate contact with the Koranus.)
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To: haywoodwebb

159 posted on 08/08/2006 4:55:48 PM PDT by Sloth ('It Takes A Village' is problematic when you're raising your child in Sodom.)
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To: Shermy; HKMk23

Shermy, I think what HKMk23 is saying is that your post #19 pic shows the guy carrying the same Minnie Mouse as in Post #1. Check his left hand...2 toys... purple cow and what could be a Minnie Mouse


160 posted on 08/08/2006 4:56:25 PM PDT by PajamaTruthMafia
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