"The Lebanon" (UNFORTUNATELY NECESSARY UPDATE - EXTREMELY GRAPHIC)

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"The Lebanon" (UNFORTUNATELY NECESSARY UPDATE - EXTREMELY GRAPHIC)

Edited on Mon Jul-17-06 12:51 PM by Hissyspit

THE HUMAN LEAGUE "The Lebanon" (1984)

She is awakened by the screams

An Irish child cries as Israeli warplanes cross the air, while she waits with her family to board a bus to be evacuated from Lebanon, in Beirut, July 17, 2006. REUTERS/ Sharif Karim (LEBANON)

Of rockets flying from nearby

An artillery unit fires a shell toward south Lebanon from a position in northern Israel, Sunday, July 16, 2006. Hezbollah and Israel traded fierce barrages for a sixth day Monday, as the latest eruption of warfare in the Middle East showed no sign of easing. (AP Photo/Aviv Divon, IDF)

And scared she clings onto her dreams

A Muslim Lebanese family reads the Koran in a bomb shelter in Tyre, south Lebanon. Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah vowed to wage an unrestrained campaign against Israel as 45 Lebanese were killed in a devastating blitz of Israeli strikes and the Jewish state was hit by an unprecedented rocket attack.(AFP/Hassan Ammar)

To beat the fear that she might die

Civil defence rescuers remove the remains of the body of a driver from a civilian car that was struck on a bridge by an Israeli warplane missile, in the southern village of Ghaziyeh, near the port city of Sidon Lebanon, Monday July 17, 2006. The unidentified driver was trapped and was burned. Israel traded fierce barrages for a sixth day Monday, as the latest eruption of warfare in the Middle East showed no sign of easing, with the death toll on both sides rising to more than 200 at least 180 in Lebanon and 24 in Israel. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)

And who will have won

An Israeli woman collapses at the Ramam hospital after hearing that her brother was killed in the northern coastal city of Haifa after rockets fired from southern Lebanon crashed into the city. Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah has vowed an unrestrained campaign against Israel as his group killed eight people in a rocket attack on its third largest city and Lebanon reeled under a devastating bombardment.(AFP/Gali Tibbon)

When the soldiers have gone

An Israeli soldier shouts after a mobile artillery unit fires 155mm shells towards Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon. US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said she may soon travel to the Middle East to help broker an end to the violence there and warned against settling for a temporary truce.(AFP/Pedro Ugarte)

From the Lebanon

Southern Beirut was subjected to a fierce bombardment from Israeli air attacks after the rocket strife in Haifa. (Tyler Hicks/The New York TImes)

The Lebanon

A Lebanese firefighter extinguishes the charred body of a Lebanese truck driver who was killed when Israeli planes attacked the port in Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, July 17, 2006, killing two people. Israeli aircraft targeted Hezbollah's strongholds in southern Beirut Monday, firing missiles whose detonations shook the capital city. Hours earlier, Israeli planes had attacked the capital's infrastructure, killing two people in the port and setting ablaze a gas storage tank, witnesses and Lebanese media said. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

I must be dreaming

Doctors and medics attend to Amin Hussan Haj, 11, wounded in an Israeli warplane missile attack at the family house in the village of Jibsheet, south Lebanon, at the intensive care unit in the nearby market down of Nabatiyeh, Sunday July 16, 2006. Haj, has serious head injuries, multiple lower limb fractures and he had lost both his parents in the attack according to doctors and relatives. Sunday brought the fiercest attacks since the conflict erupted Wednesday. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

It can't be true

A rescue worker from Zaka scrapes blood at the scene of a rocket attack in Haifa July 16, 2006. Hizbollah rockets killed eight people in Haifa and bombs shook Beirut as Israel pursued a five-day-old assault in Lebanon aimed at crippling the Shi'ite Muslim group. (Yonathan Weitzman/Reuters)

I must be dreaming

Lebanese civil defense personnel rescue a trapped youth after opening a gap from the next building into his family's apartment at a building, that holds the Lebanese Interior Ministry's civil defense center of Tyre, after it was attacked by an Israeli warplane missile at the southern Lebanon city of Tyr, Sunday, July 16, 2006. Israeli air strikes reduced entire apartment buildings to rubble and knocked out electricity in swaths of the Lebanese capital Sunday, and Israel dramatically escalated the ferocity of its campaign after Hezbollah rockets hit the northern city of Haifa. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

It can't be true

Rescuers removed bodies from a train station in Haifa on Sunday after a missile strike by Hezbollah. Oded Balilty/AP (from nytimes.com)

And who will have won

Lebanese civilians evacuate after an Israeli aircraft destroyed a house in a south Lebanon village July 16, 2006. The strike on Sunday, killing eight civilians, including five with dual Canadian and Lebanese citizenship, a health ministry official said. REUTERS/Elie Abou Faysal (LEBANON)

When the soldiers have gone

Lebanese children who fled with their family from Israeli attacks in south Lebanon, play in a school in Saida, July 17, 2006. Israel bombarded Lebanon for a sixth day on Monday and dismissed as premature a proposal for an international stability force to help end the worst fighting across the Israeli-Lebanese border in more than 20 years. REUTERS/Ali Hashisho(LEBANON)

From the Lebanon

Two-year-old Karim Qobeisi is treated in hospital in the southern market town of Nabatiyeh in Lebanon Sunday, July 16, 2006 after he was injured during an Israeli airstrike whilst in his house, according to his father who was also injured. Airstrikes reduced entire apartment buildings to rubble and knocked out electricity in swaths of the Lebanese capital Sunday as Israel dramatically escalated the ferocity of its campaign after Hezbollah rockets hit the northern city of Haifa. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)

The Lebanon

A Lebanese medic carries the body of a young girl, in a refrigerated truck used as a makeshift morgue, as another body lies covered, in the port city of Sidon, Lebanon, Monday, July 17, 2006, after she was killed along with her family when their vehicle was driving under a bridge that was detroyed by an Israeli warplane missile, in the southern village of Rmeileh, near Sidon. Overnight attacks on Lebanon by Israeli warplanes and big guns killed 17 people and wounded at least 53, Lebanese security officials said. The death toll since fighting began on Wednesday after Hezbollah captured two Israeli soldiers has climbed above 200 - 196 in Lebanon, 24 in Israel. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)

"I thought you were going to ask me about the pig." - George W. Bush

Palestinians hold banners reading "No to violence, no to fear, no to humiliation" and calling for an end to the violence in Lebanon at Yarmouk refugee camp, north of Damascus. Governments worldwide are scrambling to evacuate their nationals from Lebanon amid a devastating blitz of Israeli strikes and an unprecedented Hezbollah rocket attack on the Jewish state(AFP/Louai Beshara)

Israeli protesters shout slogans during a demonstration against Israel's offensives in Lebanon in Tel Aviv July 16, 2006. Rockets fired by Hizbollah guerrillas killed eight people in the Israeli city of Haifa on Sunday and bombs shook Beirut as Israel pursued a five-day-old assault in Lebanon aimed at crippling the Shi'ite Muslim group. REUTERS/Eliana Aponte (ISRAEL)