Standard government cover-up

The IDF’s “Human Shield” Defense Blows Up.

From Haaretz today:

As the Israel Air Force continues to investigate the air strike [at Qana], questions have been raised over military accounts of the incident.

It now appears that the military had no information on rockets launched from the site of the building, or the presence of Hezbollah men at the time.

The Israel Defense Forces had said after the deadly air-strike that many rockets had been launched from Qana. However, it changed its version on Monday.

The site was included in an IAF plan to strike at several buildings in proximity to a previous launching site. Similar strikes were carried out in the past. However, there were no rocket launches from Qana on the day of the strike.

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I look forward to hearing the IDF’s or IDF apologists’ next “close enough for government work” rationale for killing a few dozen children.  

[BOVARD]

This sounds like a large-scale variation on the standard procedure that government thugs follow when they accidentally murder the wrong person: blame it on the victim and hope nobody catches on. Like the guy who was murdered for getting on a subway in England, or the guy who was murdered for getting off a plane in the U.S.

It’s pretty stupid of the thugs to try this kind of thing, since the truth inevitably (and quickly) comes out and makes them look even worse then they otherwise would have. But then, intelligence is not a prerequisite for being a government employee.