QUOTE(Ermac @ Jul 24 2006, 09:49 AM)
Hey did you guys saw those pics with israely kids happily writing messages to kids on bombs? Just saw them today, man that's just sick!
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Who told you the messages were to "kids"? The bombs are aimed at terrorist positions, whatever I could make out from the writing had nothing to do with "kids", I did notice something along the lines of "Nasrallah" however...
Americans frequently "tag" their armaments... Its not that unusual...
That being said, I do find that pathetic as kids should be left out of these kinds of scenarios...
From that, here it is from the source, the context behind those photos:
http://ontheface.blogware.com/blog/_archiv...20/2142505.html"Apparently one or some of the parents wrote messages in Hebrew and English on the tank shells to Nasrallah. "To Nasrallah with love," they wrote to the man whose name was for them a devilish image on television - the man who mockingly told Israelis, via speeches that were broadcast on Al Manar and Israeli television, that Hezbollah was preparing to launch even more missiles at them. That he was happy they were suffering.
The photograpers gathered around. Twelve of them. Do you know how many that is? It's a lot. And they were all simultaneously leaning in with their long camera lenses, clicking the shutter over and over. The parents handed the markers to the kids and they drew little Israeli flags on the shells. Photographers look for striking images, and what is more striking than pretty, innocent little girls contrasted with the ugliness of war? The camera shutters clicked away, and I guess those kids must have felt like stars, especially since the diversion came after they'd been alternately bored and terrified as they waited out the shelling in their bomb shelters.
Shelly [one of the photographers at the scene] emphasized several times that none of the parents or children had expressed any hatred toward the Lebanese people. No-one expressed any satisfaction at knowing that Lebanese were dying - just as Israelis are dying. Their messages were directed at Nasrallah. None of those people was detached or wise enough to think: "Hang on, tank shell equals death of human beings." They were thinking, tank shell equals stopping the missiles that land on my house. Tank shells will stop that man with the turban from threatening to kill us."