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the photos are a joke.
i find it amazing that folk actually swallow the rationale being floated through the pr machinery to rationalize the massacre of civilians.
it is not that hezbollah--being a milita--that is not being organized on nation-state lines--does not present problems as a "legitimate target"--because its boundaries do blur into its social environment--but this is not equivalent to the ludicrous "uses human shields" claim--which is alot like the iraqi military breaking into the kuwati hospital and killing babies during gulfwar 1--you know, the kind of image that functions to sell war--the kind of fake image used to sell war.
in this case, you are being sold "collateral damage"--like the 37 children killed on the weekend by an israeli bomb at qana.
you are also being sold the fiasco that is the bush administration's actions relative to the massacre in lebanon-a total fiasco that is beginning to register even with republicans.
wake up folks. the pictures are a joke (look at nos. 1 and 3 carefully....they are the same shot---what exactly is demonstrated by these photos--could you not make the same argument if you used pix of a military parade through some suburb against the american and israeli armies, were you so inclined?)
war is pr.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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