A Convenient "Massacre"

Good to see Jonah Goldberg on the Tribune op-ed page again. Here is his latest column:

The script is even more familiar. The Qana "massacre" was very convenient for Hezbollah politically. It stymied Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's visit to Beirut, forestalled talk of disarming Hezbollah, and rallied international opinion around the terrorist group. Aspects of the Qana story don't jibe, starting with the timeline. The building collapsed seven hours after the bombing. Some of the victims didn't look like they were killed in a building collapse, and refrigerated trucks were reportedly brought in before the media could visit the site, perhaps delivering corpses. An elaborate 30-foot banner condemning a bloody-lipped Rice for the attack was improbably at the ready for a protest that morning. Bloggers around the globe are steadily picking apart other details, to the dismay of many who like their anti-Israel story lines tidy (see confederateyankee.mu.nu for a summary).

Scroll down on the above mentioned site, but specifically also here. More via Drudge, that the casualty numbers have dropped, among other discrepancies.