{"id":1616,"date":"2008-05-05T12:09:14","date_gmt":"2008-05-05T16:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=1616"},"modified":"2008-05-06T07:25:41","modified_gmt":"2008-05-06T11:25:41","slug":"rockets-and-the-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=1616","title":{"rendered":"Rockets and the media"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jackson Diehl, a columnist at the Washington Post writes today a piece entitled “War of Rockets<\/a>“, in which he draws a comparison between what the Israelis are facing in Gaza and the US in Sadr City;<\/p>\n

Last Tuesday, Israel faced the fallout from a Palestinian family of five perishing in the Gaza Strip during an Israeli strike against militants firing rockets at an Israeli town. On Wednesday, the Bush administration woke to a front-page picture in The Post of a 2-year-old Iraqi boy killed in a U.S. airstrike in Baghdad aimed at Shiite militiamen launching rockets at the city’s Green Zone. The similarity of these tragic and politically costly episodes was anything but a coincidence.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

First, I’d point out to Mr. Deihl that on Saturday the New York Times<\/a> reported that incident in Gaza was not the fault of the Israeli Army, but rather the fault of exploding Hamas terrorists;<\/p>\n

Palestinian witnesses had said they believed that an Israeli tank shell or a missile from a drone had struck the family\u2019s house in Beit Hanoun, killing the five.<\/p>\n

The military said it had fired two missiles from the air that hit their target \u2014 two Palestinian gunmen operating near the house. The gunmen were carrying backpacks loaded with ammunition, the army said, leading to secondary, bigger explosions.<\/p>\n

The military concluded the family was hit \u201cduring the explosion of the second missile that ignited the secondary explosions\u201d or by \u201cobjects that had flown towards them from the strength of the explosion.\u201d It ruled out a direct Israeli hit on the house.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The backstory on the US incident as reported by ABC News<\/a>;<\/p>\n

Stover said 28 militiamen were killed when U.S. forces hit back with rockets.<\/p>\n

Officials at two local hospitals said about 25 people had died and several dozen were wounded — most civilians. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to release the information.<\/p>\n

Associated Press photos showed men pulling the dust-covered body of a 2-year-old boy, Ali Hussein, from the rubble of one building.<\/p>\n

U.S. officials said all precautions are taken to prevent civilian casualties, but blamed the militiamen for taking cover among their neighbors and families.<\/p>\n

“The enemy continues to show little regard for innocent civilians, as they fire their weapons from within houses, alleyways and rooftops upon our soldiers,” said Col. Allen Batschelet, chief of staff for the 4th Infantry Division in Baghdad.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Funny how AP always gets these pictures of two-year-olds pulled from the wreckage. But that’s what the Iranians want – dead children turn the Arab world against the US and Israel. It’s funny how AP can never find any dead children after terrorist attacks against the US and Israel. But this all covered in Michael Yon’s book “Moment of Truth in Iraq<\/a>” – it’s not just a war of rockets and bullets, but also a war of cameras.<\/p>\n

Like I said, whenever an Israeli child is killed by a Hamas rocket, or an Iraqi child is murdered by an al Sadr-inspired attack or an al-Qeada attack, there never seems to be any of the mainstream photographers near. But let someone pull a body out of the wreckage after a US or Israeli attack, it’s like a Paris Hilton traffic stop. That’s why ya’all need to go to Amazon and buy Michael Yon<\/a>‘s book – if for no other reason than to keep him over there and taking the pictures no one else will take.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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