{"id":834,"date":"2009-05-14T16:06:12","date_gmt":"2009-05-14T23:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2009\/05\/14\/terrorists-lying-about-casualties-to-a-media-that-wants-to-be-fooled\/"},"modified":"2009-05-14T16:06:16","modified_gmt":"2009-05-14T23:06:16","slug":"terrorists-lying-about-casualties-to-a-media-that-wants-to-be-fooled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2009\/05\/14\/terrorists-lying-about-casualties-to-a-media-that-wants-to-be-fooled\/","title":{"rendered":"Terrorists lying about casualties to a media that wants to be fooled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/05082009\/postopinion\/opedcolumnists\/the_casualty_con_168138.htm?&amp;page=0\">THE CASUALTY CON<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Lying about civilian casualties is the one sure way to impede or even halt US (or Israeli) operations, to force such tight restrictions on our troops that they can&#8217;t win.<\/p>\n<p>The casualty con&#8217;s so effective as both propaganda and tactic that terrorists everywhere have adopted the technique. It&#8217;s been so successful that <b>our enemies long ago transitioned to the next phase: creating civilian casualties and blaming us.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>It works. <i>The media love the charge.<\/i> Our troops and pilots are always guilty &#8212; even if proven innocent. Because <i>so many on the left want us to be guilty. <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read it all.  And approach future civilian casualty counts with appropriate skepticism.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-834\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2009\/05\/14\/terrorists-lying-about-casualties-to-a-media-that-wants-to-be-fooled\/?share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-834\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2009\/05\/14\/terrorists-lying-about-casualties-to-a-media-that-wants-to-be-fooled\/?share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-linkedin\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-linkedin-834\" class=\"share-linkedin sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2009\/05\/14\/terrorists-lying-about-casualties-to-a-media-that-wants-to-be-fooled\/?share=linkedin\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on LinkedIn\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-reddit\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-reddit sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2009\/05\/14\/terrorists-lying-about-casualties-to-a-media-that-wants-to-be-fooled\/?share=reddit\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Reddit\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-print\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-print sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2009\/05\/14\/terrorists-lying-about-casualties-to-a-media-that-wants-to-be-fooled\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to print\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to print (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE CASUALTY CON Lying about civilian casualties is the one sure way to impede or even halt US (or Israeli) operations, to force such tight restrictions on our troops that they can&#8217;t win. The casualty con&#8217;s so effective as both propaganda and tactic that terrorists everywhere have adopted the technique. 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