Lies and the Lying Liars who Tell Them

From Caroline Glicks lastest article, on the Israeli Raid.

The footage of the IDF's celebrated naval commandos falling prey to an Islamic lynch mob on the deck of the Turkish ship Mavi Marmara on Monday morning serves as a perfect simile for the national mood. The commandos boarded the ship armed with paintball guns expecting to be greeted by hostile, but non-violent humanitarian activists. Instead they were accosted by a murderous mob.

Paintball guns? Not exactly.

The military said in a statement that two activists were later found with pistols taken from Israeli commandos. It accused the activists of opening fire, “as evident by the empty pistol magazines.”

Another soldier said the orders were to neutralize the passengers, not to kill them.

But the forces “had to open fire in order to defend themselves,” the navy commander, Vice Adm. Eliezer Marom, said at a news conference in Tel Aviv, adding, “Their lives were at risk.”

At least seven soldiers were wounded, one of them seriously. The military said that some suffered gunshot wounds; at least one had been stabbed.

Yeah, that doesn't sound like paintball guns, does it?

Not to mention the dishonesty of framing the decision of Israel to board a civilian ship, an action which lead to the deaths of 9 activists and no Israeli soldiers, as an aggressive act on the part of the activists is a bit disingenuous.