Posted on 09/09/2008 9:48:09 AM PDT by yankeedame
I just love it when CNN and MSNBC grab this stuff and put it out as hard news. Every time they do, they step in the crap and never clean their shoes.
There are at least three plausible explanations for these bodies.
1. High-level Taliban were hiding among a bunch of women and children. That happens all the time.
2. The Taliban shot these people themselves, and then blamed it on us. That happens, too.
3. The whole thing is a fake, with terrorists for photographers and terrorists for lying witnesses. That has happened often. In fact more than one AP photographer was actually a terrorist working for the organization as a stringer.
I didn’t hear any complaints when clinton ordered civilian targets to be bombed deliberately. I hope the airforce people who participated in the attack were not aware of what the targets they were ordered to hit actually were, but certainly clinton and his stooges knew all about it when they ordered attacks on such targets as the Belgrade TV station.
That sort of DELIBERATE atrocity has never happened under Bush, that I am aware of. It happened several times, at least, under clinton, who ordered some pretty indiscriminate bombing from high altitudes.
The articles tracked with the keywords mediawar and fauxtography have done a lot of damage to their agitprop campaign.
The boy who cries wolf 1,000 times will have a hard time claiming victim status if/when there is a genuine attrocity.
“Maybe the Afghanis and Iraqis saw the precision bombing of the US forces and presumed they could safely stand next to the bad boys.”
More likely they don’t even see the Taliban and AQ in their midst as “bad boys”.
Sadly the folks at DU dont believe the US or Fox News
Im so surprised
Remember when the Chinese embassy got hit in the Clinton era? Talk about a major blunder. It went down the memory hole.
What proof is there of
*bodies, not just blankets?
*Date of photos?
*the actual location of the photos?
Who took the photos? The "angry Afghani woman" has an AP mark in the lower left.
What nonsens, the enemy hides among civilians, sometimes as the "honored guest" of the civilians, and we're supposed to feel bad about situations like this (if they actually occurred)?
Civilians get the short end of the stick in most wars, when they are in a war that features one side fighting in civvies, without any regard for "collateral damage" these things happen, sometimes that's the plan.
This is an EVIL enemy.
Surely they wouldn’t splice in the “alien autopsy” footage to make their claims. < /s >
Can we tell from the pictures that those are even real, live bodies? Everything I see is blurred and not well exposed.
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