Comments on: Was Qana Staged?

By: Webloggin - Blog Archive » Hezbollah may be using Qana to Stage a Propaganda Campaign

Tue, 01 Aug 2006 16:56:00 +0000

[...] If you want to see how effectively propaganda is converted into world wide condemnation I refer you to the reaction section of this Wikipedia page on Qana. I have excerpted it at the bottom of this post. Others Bloggin on this Story: Outside the Beltway: Was Qana Staged? [...]

By: Anderson

Anderson — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 15:27:44 +0000

I thought the motto of the bleeding heart party was ‘Can’t we all just get along’?

What office did Rodney King run for on the Dem ticket? I don't recall it.

Or does that only apply to every one else BUT conservatives?

Moderation in the protection of liberty is no virtue, as some Democrat once said.

By: LJD

LJD — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 13:44:07 +0000

I thought the motto of the bleeding heart party was 'Can't we all just get along'?

Or does that only apply to every one else BUT conservatives?

By: Anderson

Anderson — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 13:24:12 +0000

Where’s Anderson on this one?

I'm afraid of violating the recently-revived civility policy, is all.

By: LJD

LJD — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 12:23:26 +0000

The issue is not whether this was propaganda or not. If it is false, the arab world will still believe it and the damage is done. There is still the tragedy that women and children were killed, somewhere, somehow. But possibly the deeper tragedy for truth and justice is our willingness to report and believe in unsubstantiated claims.

I first saw this story break with the cable news reporter claiming the victims were predominantly women and children. The video footage featured two men on stretchers, not a single woman or child. Perhaps that was telling.

Where's Anderson on this one? I was wondering about those WMDs...

By: bains

bains — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 03:39:31 +0000

and furthermore, we know that Hezbullah always tells the truth, and Israel always lies...

But it does seem funny that when we took out Zarqawi with a massive airstrike, he was still alive, yet errant missles that take down a building leave how many survivors? Interesting that I havent seen nor read any of those accounts. Too bad that someone not already committed to blaming Israel couldnt get in there and investigate.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 02:59:29 +0000

I also think it's worth a mention that the source for these claims, the Israeli Insider, also features an articles which asserts the proper way to resolve the current conflict is an immediate attack on Iran. The website is full of propaganda and extremist thinking. . . come on, you guys are picking sources that are such easy targets . . .

By: Jane Galt

Jane Galt — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 02:34:42 +0000

I'm neither a bush hater nor a terrorist sympathizer, but this seems awfully unlikely to me. For one thing, as someone pointed out, why not choose a building closer to the airstrike? For another, as someone else pointed out, the main issue is all the dead babies. It doesn't really matter where they were killed, unless you're suggesting that Hizbollah killed them themselves in order to stage the attack--unlikely both because terrorists don't often target their own, particularly in the neighbourhood where the victims live. I'm no engineer, but having worked at the WTC disaster recovery site, I've suffered through a ridiculous number of theories advanced by non-engineers "proving" that the buildings were detonated by explosives because they didn't fall like some tinkertoy model the author built. Exhibit A is always Building Seven, which didn't collapse until hours after the plane hit. All the construction guys, demolition experts, and civil engineers I worked with patiently explained over and over that structural damage is not always visible, and does not require a direct impact, but their explanations were generally dismissed as naive. It seems much more likely to me that the building suffered structural damage during the Israeli saturation bombing, and then collapsed long after the occupants thought it was safe, than that Hamas somehow chose a random building safely away from the airstrikes, stuffed it with bodies that they somehow located and trucked through a war zone, and then detonated it. Why not just lead reporters to the morgue where all the bodies were?

By: jukeboxgrad

jukeboxgrad — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 02:13:50 +0000

Take a look at "Second Draft," and Pallywood: "Pallywood is the name of a short 2005 documentary/video, produced by American historian and "pro-Israel leftist" Richard Landes, that asserts that Palestinian video journalists stage events in order to put Israel's policies in an unfavorable light."

By: Derek

Derek — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 23:28:12 +0000

That sure looks like a shiney new pacifier on an untouched blue plastic chain. Clipped onto a dead child removed from ton's of rubble.

Anyone?

Beuller?

By: Herb

Herb — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 22:25:18 +0000

Have you ever notices that the naysayers and pro terrorist comments come from the "Accomplished Bush Haters" ?

By: Herb

Herb — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 22:20:23 +0000

Does it not bewilder one to see the comments here from those who choose to believe terrorist over those who fight and die fighting terrorism. One ask why do some people think the terrorist are the "Most Truthful" people around and accuse those who fight to protect the lives of everyone, the bad guys. Make one wonder why, and what's in it for them.

By: Tano

Tano — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 22:09:49 +0000

Oh geez, what the hell is happening to OTB? Do you really want to pich yourselves at the level of the most lunatic fringe of the right? Are you guys preparing for your role in the political opposition, with the intention of out-moonbatting the current opposition moonbats?

Come back!

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 22:01:43 +0000

Aren't we the merry little conspiracy theorists? As soon as a massacre happens, you guys are all over the words "propaganda" and "staged" like white on rice. Bombs kill people and collapse buildings, whatever "virtuous" republic they may come from. It's unbelievable a bomb could strike very near a building and undermine its stability causing a collapse several hours later! God, I bet that has never happened before! Thanks for sharing the truthiness with me!

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 21:27:58 +0000

people like DC Loser (although to be fair I don't know if he advocates the following) insist that 911 and the intelligence used to justify the Iraq War be investigated again and again...but to do an investigation of Qana would be a wasted effort...hmmmmmmmm.
Posted by Jim

Where did DC Loser say he was against an investigation?