"Lebanon is Hezbollah and a 15 year old girl is a woman."

[gatorboy]

Maybe it's just me but while listening to CNN this morning, I couldn't help but notice that the news commentators seemed to have been going out of their way in not mentioning Lebanon by name. Instead, when they would report on the bombings going on, they'd say "Israel bombed Hezbollah." Is Hezbollah a country now?

And CNN is still calling the Iraqi girl that was murdered a woman....

[MaswinMO]

1. Hezbollah is the defacto govt.

In Southern Lebanon and I think they do hold a majority in the Lebanese Parliament.

[gatorboy]

2. What's your point?

If America was bombed, we should say "Attack on Republicans!" just because they are the majority?

[LostinVA]

13. Bingo n/t

[MessiahRp]

16. Actually if that were to happen

I'm pretty sure a good chunk of the other half of Americans wouldn't care that much. Certainly not enough to stand up and fight for them.

Better stick to that "Attack on America" thing after all. :)

Rp

[gatorboy]

17. Heheh!!

You bad. :)

[RaleighNCDUer]

4. May be right about the first half your statement

but it is a minority party in the national government.

ON EDIT:

OTOH, it is the only faction that has refused to disarm since the civil war, so they do have extraordinary influence for a minority party.

[Mass_Liberal]

5. wrong

they hold 14% of the Lebanese parliament.

[Fleshdancer]

6. and attacking the infrastructure for all of Lebanon...

might cause the government to collapse. If or when this happens, there's a very real risk that Hezbollah will gain control over more than just Southern Lebanon. Certainly this is not what we want, right?

[MaswinMO]

10. I agree with you...

I'm not advocating that Israel engage Lebanon too harshly. Hezbollah wants that to happen.

[ncrainbowgrrl]

12. Welcome to DU, MaswinMO!

:hi:

[Eugene]

3. The Associated Press is even more flagrant about it.

Israeli Raids Bring Misery for Hezbollah

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/17/AR2006071700096.html

The article details bombings of civilian homes, but implies
that they are Hezbollah by virtue of living in southern Beirut.

[RaleighNCDUer]

7. What got me, as I was channel surfing yesterday, was the

bobble-head talking about 'Is this Armageddon?' I thought I was on the 700 club - then realized it was CNN Headline News spewing that garbage.

The most respected source for rapturist blathering.

[PSPS]

8. I think you have a valid point

On AP radio news today, they've been going on and on about Israel "bombing Hezbollah" when it is the city of Beirut and the general infrastructure of the whole country, including the main airport, that's been getting destroyed.

But none of this should be surprising. The media just "reports" what it is told to by its masters in the white house.

[leftchick]

9. she was fourteen

born August 19, 1991. :(

[cspanlovr]

11. A 14 yr old is a woman, but 21 yr old Monica was just a little girl.

These men are pigs.

[Beelzebud]

14. Double Think

Up is down

We are at war with Oceania

Fifteen years old is adult status

Rape is acceptable if done to an adult

Black is white

Lebanon is Hezbollah

Iran is Lebanon

Hezbollah is Palestine

Saddam is Bin Laden

[BlueCaliDem]

15. Your post is a peek in a repub's warped, sick mind. n/t

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

18. And U.S. and Israeli soldiers are "kidnapped", not captured

and Israel always "responds to" or "answers" an Arab attack and isn't described as initiating the action. On Yahoo the other day, there was even a news article calling the captured Israeli soldiers "GIs". It stayed that way for about an hour until they changed the headline.