It has been argued for years that the media typically focus on images from Iraq and the war on terror which paint American and Israeli military in a bad light while always presenting the enemy as victims.
In fact, this effort often includes the doctoring of photographs as well as the staging of events in front of rolling cameras which will be broadcast or published by an antiwar press without the slightest investigation into authenticity.
With that in mind, the picture at the right represents a rather startling image of terrorism that media would never dare share with the American people. As the MEMRI Blog shockingly reported (h/t Charles at LGF, emphasis added):
The Shabakat Falastin Lilhiwar online forum, which is associated with the Hamas website, has posted a photo of a little girl in a combat vest and an Al-Qassam Brigades headband, captioning it, "Have you seen the new child martyr who will soon shake Israel [to the core]?"
The message accompanying the photo states that the little girl "is part of the Muslim generation which will go down in history [as a generation]… that refused to [accept] humiliation and defeat."
Think you’ll see this picture at the New York Times or on any of the evening news broadcasts any time soon?
I wouldn’t hold your breath.
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March 20, 2007 - 09:24 ET by iveseenitallWhat a lovely little child. A wonderful example of how to rear your kids. Walters and Sawyer should get right over there and interview her parents. Then come back and lecture Americans about what a poor job they are doing under that terrorist, President Bush.
NEVER,NEVER trust a liberal
This description of Iraqi children will make you cry
March 21, 2007 - 16:23 ET by RJHere's two children Walters, Sawyer, and the rest of the terrorist-enabling media will never get a chance to interview. It's from James Taranto's "Best of the Web" today. If the above photo made you angry, then this description will make you cry...
"Here's a Reuters dispatch on a particularly horrific attack in Iraq:
Reuters calls the attackers "insurgents" and the attack a "militant" one, but nowhere does the word terrorist appear. That's because, according to Reuters, one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter.
So who is the man whose "freedom fighter" deliberately blows up children in cars?"
Why would the NY Times or oth
March 20, 2007 - 09:24 ET by rwesleyWhy would the NY Times or other toilets run this picture? They're too busy trying to run puff pieces on how Christianity brainwashes followers to hate gays, pro-choicers, and "alternative lifestyles".
The 'frame' of Iraq.
March 20, 2007 - 09:27 ET by acaiguanaThe 'frame' of Iraq.
I am so frustrated with the MSM 'frame' of Iraq. A.) because it was an 'illegal' war, the US has created terrorism.
B) because the Al Qaeda leader, Bin Laden was in Afghanistan and we did not produce a 'body' there is a failure - somewhere - some way.
C) Bush is an idiot.
D) Plame is a genius.
E) I'm stupid
ACA
...
Quoted from: 'Acaiguana Notes from the Bomb Shelter' (soon to be a movie at theaters near you)
Well, we sure know E) is not
March 20, 2007 - 15:21 ET by kathleenirishWell, we sure know E) is not true.
"He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, and he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere" -Ali ibn-Abi-Talib, 4th Islamic Caliph
Although Noel
March 20, 2007 - 09:30 ET by Sua Sponte 75Noel, unfortunately this is probably one of the least distrubing images I've seen, albeit another that you won't see on the evening news.
Case in point (HT: Jawa):
How Many Jooos Did Mama Kill?
This video at Memri will leave you speechless. At least it did me. It's an interview with two kidergarteners about how mama blew herself up to kill the jooos.
Or comments made such as
Abu Izzadeen, a follower of British cleric Omar Bakri Mohammed, talks about that peaceful inner struggle called "jihad". Try not to throw anything at your computer screen as you watch. The video takes place in a London mosque:
Terrorism is part and parcel to Islam. Terrorism is part of the deen [Islamic way of life] of Islam. Yes. Allah said ... "to terrify the enemis of Allah, we should prepare ourselves." Prepare to go to war [jihad]. Jihad is [a religous obligation] on Muslims, on the males of like us here. That is why you should teach your son how to ride. How to shoot. It is the sunna [example of the Prophet Muhammed] of Muhammed, and a [religious obligation] on you as a father to teach him to become a mujahidid....
Read More "(Video) British Muslim: Islam = Terrorism, Paul Johnson Beheading Justified"
They want to say. "You know, Islam is only self defense. Islam is not offensive jihad"
Two types: Offensive jihad, to conquer and to protect the authority of the sharia [Islamic law]. And defensive jihad: to protect Muslim lands. Two types. And for your information...Mohammed, he took part in 27 battles. 27. And all of them offensive jihads.
All come out of Medina to go to the enemy. Every single battle....All offensive jihads. And we should follow them. Because the messenger Muhammed said in the hadiths [sayings of the prophet], "Upon you, binding upon you Muslims, is the living sunna [example of the prophet] and the sunna of the sahabba."
And for your information the sahabba ...he removed all Jews and Christians from the Hijaz [Arabian peninsula]....completely.
(Allahu Akhbar)
We will do the same.
That's why when you hear on the news that the mujahideen [reference to al Qaeda], you know, of [Saudi Arabia], they killed those British and they killed those Americans [ie, a reference to the beheading of American Paul Johnson and murder of Kenneth Scroggs and BBC cameraman Simon Cumbers] don't be surprised. It's not some new phenomenon to kill the enemies of Allah.
And you may say to yourself, "No, they [Paul Johnson, et al] are innocent."
No kafir [unbeliever, non-Muslim] is innocent. Innocence is only for the Muslims. No kafir is innocent.
Thou sayest.
I guess it's just easier for everyone to ignore that there is a threat, you know if you do that it will just go away, well, except for those eevvvvvillll Republicans and Conservatives.
"You're either part of the solution or part of the problem"
Sua, outstanding posting budd
March 20, 2007 - 11:38 ET by Senior ChiefSua, outstanding posting buddy! Learn few words today. I'll forward this to O'donell, Behar and Walters and see how these losers react...
The true front line of this W
March 20, 2007 - 09:32 ET by Gat New YorkThe true front line of this War is in the Madrasahs in the Middle East countries that have been indoctrinating young Sunni and Shia Muslims for decades into this fascist form of Islam. None of the 9/11 hijackers came from Afghanistan – they came from Middle East countries.
But elected officials and their supporters including MSM who oppose anything to do with George W. Bush refuse to acknowledge this fact and do so at our peril and do so irresponsibly.
What our armed forces and intelligence assets are doing is snuffing out existing terror cells. It is equally important that we stop the propagation of this form of Islam by stopping the indoctrination in all of those countries.
These terrorists are incapabl
March 20, 2007 - 09:34 ET by Mean Gene Dr. LoveThese terrorists are incapable of love--even for their own children.
They hate Israel and America MORE than they love their own children.
This makes me weep.
"There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear." --General George S. Patton, Jr.
After a little more thought,
March 20, 2007 - 09:57 ET by Mean Gene Dr. LoveAfter a little more thought, this makes me even more upset especially since Hezbollah tried to buy sympathy by parading children's bodies past the cameras during the Israel-Lebanon War last year. It was pure and simple propaganda.
These people have been so brainwashed by their Imams that they don't even think...they just do what they're told, they believe whatever anyone in a mosque tells them.
They wax indignant when their children are supposedly killed by Israeli bombs, but then they go and strap bombs onto their own children and kill their children themselves. If that isn't evil, then I don't know what is.
"There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear." --General George S. Patton, Jr.
The most desturbing thing i
March 20, 2007 - 09:46 ET by Dee BunkThe most desturbing thing is that liberals get all up in arms and frightened by Christians in the movie "Jesus Camp" because their kids to a skit with camouflage leggings and refer to "War" on abortion and pray in front of the Supreme Court.
As I said before - the way Pentecostal's worship is not for me, but I'm not afraid of them. Liberals are afraid of leggings and praying but not of actual weapons and uniforms? It's just crazy.
Looking at the picture, it st
March 20, 2007 - 09:48 ET by bassndudeLooking at the picture, it strikes me as the pinnical of child abuse. Those "people" have that crime down to a 'T'. That said, I consider them all criminals. Child abusers are worthy of nothing less than death.
Save a SeAL, club a liberal!!
THIS is why we need to kill them
March 20, 2007 - 11:47 ET by Six String SpiffAwwww. look at that little girl all suited up with her bomb vest that mommy and daddy made for her. I will speak very blunt here. This is exactly why I say "what about the children?" People have no idea what kind of an enemy we are facing. None at all. Again, we try and play nice with the terrorists. Mecca needs to be NUKED. Islam is a CANCER growing on this planet that needs swift removal by ANY means necessary. I am DONE feeling bad for these primatives. It's a damn shame that the MSM has such a grudge with a PEACEFUL religion in it's own country, yet when danger is giving them the middle finger to THEIR FACE, they continue to blame themselves.
Here we are in a Middle Eastern toilet, (of which we have spent LONGER than any other war.)with it's inhabidants that have been fighting eachother for thousands of years over who loves god the right way. I am an American. I have every right to question WTF is going on when we haven't kicked tha a** of of our enemy in 4 years!Yes this is totally different kind of war, I know. Let me ask a rehtorical question: WHO exactly are we trying to secure Baghdad from? The terrorist..right? Well, who are the terrorists? The terrorists are the 3 waring tribes, that's WHO! Where has our resolve gone? Where has our WILL TO SURVIVE gone? Why is it that you are demonized when you even THINK of using the weapons we have been paying for forever? If we can't even CONTEMPLATE obliterating our enemy as opposed to running around trying to save face, then we are doomed.
...and now, back to pretending everything is OK.
PS. To our Soldiers who have died fighting, and playing police man in any other unimportant waste of geography:
Make his fight on the hill in the early day
Constant chill deep inside
Shouting gun, on they run through the endless grey
On the fight, for they are right, yes, by whos to say?
For a hill men would kill, why? they do not know
Suffered wounds test there their pride
Men of five, still alive through the raging glow
Gone insane from the pain that they surely know
For whom the bell tolls
Time marches on
For whom the bell tolls
Take a look to the sky just before you die
It is the last time you will
Blackened roar massive roar fills the crumbling sky
Shattered goal fills his soul with a ruthless cry
Stranger now, are his eyes, to this mystery
He hears the silence so loud
Crack of dawn, all is gone except the will to be
Now they will see what will be, blinded eyes to see
That's just WRONG!
March 20, 2007 - 15:01 ET by RackieThat's just WRONG!
Whats so WRONG about my post?
March 20, 2007 - 16:13 ET by Six String SpiffRackie, forgive me if I seem a tad cheesed about this.. its just so frustrating to watch my country go this direction. It really is. I was a loyal Bush supporter. Honest to God. He has lost his way somewhere... Don't even get me starte with immigration..
What's so WRONG about my post?
You know me Rackie, I am Conservative. Not GWB conservative, but Conservative. I have HAD IT with this "going in soft" BS. "Securing the Peace" BS. We went in there looking for WMD, which I believe still exists, but we need to start kicking down other doors such as Iran, Syria Etc.. I am glad Saddam is gone. I don't wan't laundry lists of of Schools, Hospitals, etc when I ask my president why my fellow countrymen continue to die. We went in there to look for and destroy WMD, not set up a permanent shooting gallery and cannon fodder for the dems to bash to their hearts content. I am asking for some backbone from this country. We see threat. We know where the threat exists, yet we sit around trying to save as much face as possible. We were promised "Shock and Awe" Yea I'm shocked alright. Shocked that we actually sent boots on the ground so it would be "fair" for the primatives. I stand in Awe of our president not realizing, or refusing to take this enemy down.
My Dad had a saying when I was growing up. "You will either respect me, or fear me" That is my statement to the rest of the world. We never wanted any of this Jihad business, but somehow we got involved. Most likely due to some pink panty wearing fairy crying about another country's issue that has NOTHING to do with our security. One more thing before I get outta work here..
The Middle Eastern countries have been around FAR FAR longer than the USA. What do they have to show for it? Nothing, absolutely NOTHING but Jihad.
The USA has been around a fraction of a fraction of that time and what do we have to show for it? EVERYTHING! I love this country. As much as I love the woman I am about to marry. I will be DAMNED if I stand idly by while the MSM defends the terrorists, and holds the door open for them. People need to wake up. The picture of that littlle girl with the suicide vest on should be a HUGE sign to all the passivists, socialists, communists, Marxists, Stalinists ets that reside in this country.
I've got to take issue with you on this, Spiff
March 20, 2007 - 17:19 ET by Mean Gene Dr. LoveSpiff,
I think I somewhat understand your sentiment about the war. However, WMD was only one reason of many we decided to take action. A partial list includes: 17 U.N. resolutions Saddam ignored over the course of 12 years, Saddam routinely fired at our pilots patrolling the Northern and Southern No-Fly Zones, Saddam was savagely violent to his own people--especially the Kurds and political dissidents, Saddam was running terror training camps, and the list goes on and on.
I believe that as free Americans that were born into and enjoy our freedom and a liberal (classical sense) society it is noble to fight for the freedom of those that cannot fight on their own. Although we can't fight everywhere all the time, I believe Iraq was a place that was in serious need of help and a good place to start. Freeing 26.7 million+ people from Saddam's oppressive regime is worth the sacrifices we as a country have made and continue to make.
I agree with you that we have not been forceful enough in the GWoT. You can thank our politicians for that. The media and the politicians have somehow tricked the general public into believing that war should be a "civil" or "humane" undertaking, and therefore not many seem to have the stomach and will to aggressively hunt down and kill the terrorists. Had we been allowed to be more aggressive in the GWoT, many of the fallen soldiers lives may have been saved, and more terrorists' lives may have been taken instead.
The U.S.A. certainly does not receive the respect we deserve...after all we freed Europe in two world wars, rebuilt Japan which enabled them to have one of the most dynamic economies for the past 60 years, we brought about the fall of communism over Eastern Europe and the former U.S.S.R., we've delivered hundreds of billions of dollars in aid, supplies, and money to every major natural disaster over the course of several decades, during the past century we've given the world technological and medical advances that provide convenience, comfort and preserve health and life more than all other countries combined; and this list goes on and on. We should be respected. For those regimes and individuals that wish to destroy or prevent individual/societal freedoms, the U.S. should be greatly feared by these tyrants and terrorists.
I agree that President Bush hasn't been forceful enough...I think he has been trying to get as much bi-partisan support as possible (which may or may not be a mistake in and of itself). Think of how bad the Bush Hatred or BDS would be if he took "unilateral" action in his decisions. I think the term "compassionate conservative" is political speak for 'moderate'. What we need to properly execute the GWoT is a Classical Conservative that doesn't care whether they are re-elected or not. Our politicians need to be more concerned about solving real problems and issues rather than the next election...I think that is what all this boils down to...I know that Bush isn't up for another term or any other political office, but members of his family may be in the future, and "too much" action on his part now could hurt his relative's chances down the road. Future elections will take care of themselves...decisively and properly deal with the issues now, that's all I ask of our politicians. Sadly, it appears this is too much to ask of them.
"There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear." --General George S. Patton, Jr.
I'm sorry Spiff. I shoulda kn
March 20, 2007 - 18:38 ET by RackieI'm sorry Spiff. I shoulda known that, out of context or unqualified, my comment would be taken wrong. I was referring to the use of kids as bombers. I really need to take time to flesh out my thoughts.The evil shit these a-holes come up with just defies a reasonable response. My immediate reaction would be a swift, hard kick in the balls and when they are down, to jump up and down on their heads. Since I can't do that, well, words fail me. Again, I'm sorry for the confusion.
Hi Rackie...Isn't it despicab
March 20, 2007 - 18:47 ET by bigtimerHi Rackie...
Isn't it despicable and incomprehensible how anyone can use little children like this...horrific to say the least.
Words are hard to express when it comes to such things.
Glenn Beck had a good show about this very subject awhile back.
I just shake my head in sad disbelief and utter disdain at times.
It is so sad to see this.
March 20, 2007 - 18:53 ET by BlameTheMediaIt is so sad to see this. It reminds me of how gangs here use little kids as drug runners and look outs. They are just too young to know, and have grown up in the culture. Some how, children should just be exempt.
Some how you say btm?Pretty s
March 20, 2007 - 19:01 ET by bigtimerSome how you say btm?
Pretty simple answer if you ask me....
Parents.
Simple logic.
I would die fighting first before I ever let that happen to my child...anywhere in the world.
It is a natural insticnt.
6 String to Rackie
March 20, 2007 - 19:33 ET by Six String SpiffAh! I see then. No problem here! Oh,and I agree.
Sure, I watch the MSM... Through a pair of crosshairs.
SSS, islamos want the 7 th. c
March 20, 2007 - 15:17 ET by upcountrywaterSSS,
islamos want the 7 th. century, lets help them acheve their lofty goals.
1). We need to label the intire area Choasastan. A large country stretching from Africa to Indonesia.
2). New rules: one being NO ELECTRICITY ( let's be culturally correct ok)
3). While we still have airpower, we have a window of opportunity to blast all things that contain moving electrons. It's what they want.
4). Ox carts with rubber tires may in some cases may be used.
Time is running out.
Just to add on to that...I ag
March 20, 2007 - 16:29 ET by bigtimerJust to add on to that...
I agree with Spiff about the WMD's, I have heard that President Bush will not say anything about them being moved to Syria or such because Russia was involved, as a lot of us out here in the real world have heard to and it was reported a Russian convoy was seen moving to Syria, plus one of Saddam's own Generals helped move some of them via plane...he wrote a book about it, I think his name is George Sada....the reason I have heard about the silence from this administration about this is because of Russia's involvement with Iran...
Well...I know there is always more going on behind the scenes most of us will never know..but I for one wished he would of just said something to stand up for what the whole world knew and the previous President and his partner...he had WMD...Russia is not our friend with Putin in power as far as I am concerned.
I want us to quit being so namby pamby too with the terrorists, we need to take out a lot of area's IMO before this is ever over.
Paging General Paul Tibbets
March 20, 2007 - 19:42 ET by Six String SpiffPaging General Paul Tibbets..
'nuff said
Spiff...LMAO!Perfect!
March 20, 2007 - 19:51 ET by bigtimerSpiff...
LMAO!
Perfect!
Hey Spiff, I have a signed pi
March 20, 2007 - 19:56 ET by BlondeHey Spiff,
I have a signed picture of the Enola Gay....signature is "Colonel Paul Tibbets".
It hangs in my living room, amongst a bunch of fabulous black & white photos. It's one of my prize possessions....and is first off the wall when a hurricane threatens!
Nice post, Spiffy.
Spiff to ladies
March 21, 2007 - 07:54 ET by Six String SpiffThank you, ladies. I was really tired last night and logged off before I saw your replies. Blonde, I envy your possession! Have a good one, girls. Working on a prototype for engineering today, so I will be scarce.
These People Are Sick
March 20, 2007 - 23:31 ET by emjem24When I saw this picture of this precious little girl I just wanted to cry. I don't have any children of my own (yet) and am appalled by the utter lack of morals and beliefs guiding this little girl's parents. Here's some questions I'd like to ask of these parents:
1. Are you so consumed by hate that you can't see past it long enough to love your little girl and not let her be a suicide bomber?
2. Why did you have this precious child in the first place if all you wanted to do was offer her up to Hamas?
3. If your religion is so "peaceful" then why are you doing this to you child?
And, finally...
4. Are you so bleeping insane and crazy that your only sense of justice is to do this to your kid?
The difficult we do immediately; the impossible takes a little longer. Air Force Motto
emjem says: When your brain's stuck on liberalism it self-destructs.
Sad, just sad.
March 21, 2007 - 01:06 ET by Sua Sponte 75Brave warriors use children in a car bomb:
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=070320203409.spj83omw&show_article=1
Insurgents in Iraq detonated an explosives-rigged vehicle with two children in the back seat after US soldiers let it through a Baghdad checkpoint over the weekend, a senior US military official said Tuesday.
The vehicle was stopped at the checkpoint but was allowed through when soldiers saw the children in the back, said Major General Michael Barbero of the Pentagon’s Joint Staff. “Children in the back seat lowered suspicion. We let it move through. They parked the vehicle, and the adults ran out and detonated it with the children in the back,” Barbero said.
The general said it was the first time he had seen a report of insurgents using children in suicide bombings. But he said Al-Qaeda in Iraq is changing tactics in response to the tighter controls around the city. A US defense official said the incident occurred on Sunday in Baghdad’s Adhamiyah district, a mixed neighborhood adjacent to Sadr City, which is predominantly Shiite.
After going through the checkpoint, the vehicle parked next to a market across the street from a school, said the official, who asked not to be identified.
“And the two adults were seen to get out of the vehicle, and run from the vehicle, and then followed by the detonation of the vehicle,” the official said. “It killed the two children inside as well as three other civilians in the vicinity. So, a total of five killed, seven injured.”
Officials here said they did not know who the children were or their relationship to the two adults who fled the scene. They had no information about their ages or genders.
"You're either part of the solution or part of the problem"
Back in the 70's-80's, the of
March 21, 2007 - 10:01 ET by BDBack in the 70's-80's, the often heard refrain was that "The other side loves their children tooo..." as a reason to buckle under in the SALT negotiations and to the North Vietnamese prior to the final invasion.
For the past 15-20 years I have monitored the other side when they do things such as kill a child, then put a bomb in its chest cavity in order to kill the parents when they come to claim the corpse.
A frequent tactic of the other side is to throw brightly wrapped IED's over the back wall of a families home in order to entice the children to pick them up and detonate them, obviously killing the children.
According to accounts of the First Cavalry Division in Sadr City, militants placed their children in front of them in a street fight to shield them from US bullets while engaging the US troops.
Likewise, numerous accounts of the Rangers in Somalia indicate that likewise, Habr Ghidr Clan members used their children as shields during the famous Black Hawk Down battle in Mogadishu.
Well, as is now obvious, no, THEY DO NOT LOVE THEIR CHILDREN AS MUCH AS OUR SIDE DOES....