They just got a different tool to use than we do: They kill innocent lives to achieve objectives. That's what they do. And they're good. They get on the TV screens and they get people to ask questions about, well, you know, this, that or the other. I mean, they're able to kind of say to people: Don't come and bother us, because we will kill you. Bush - Joint News Conference with Blair - 28 July '06
Enemy Lies
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in Lebanon they design attacks and manipulate the media to try to demoralize public opinion. They doctor photographs of casualties, use civilians as human shields and then provoke an outcry when civilians are accidentally killed in their midst, which of course was their intent - Rumsfeld August 29, 2006One Israeli accident [air strike] hit a farm near Qaa, close to the Syrian border in the Bekaa Valley where human shields [workers], mostly Syrian Kurds, were loading plums and peaches on to trucks. 33 were killed and 20 wounded. "Outcry" was limited.
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