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| 2003/11/7-8 [Politics/Domestic/911, Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iraq] UID:10986 Activity:high |
11/7 Pvt. Lynch upset about the filming and portrayal of her rescue.
http://salon.com/news/wire/2003/11/07/lynch_portrayal/index.html
\_ this is controversial because??
\_ Aren't you a little upset that the government fabricated
a nice media story about a dangerous midnight special forces
rescue while tacitly admitting that the situation was safe
enough to have a CAMERAMAN there?
\_ The camera was held by a special forces guy, not someone from
the NYT. Feel better now? Or just less ignorant?
\_ Obviously it was a special forces guy. Why did he have it?
Was it to protect his squad, or just to get American hearts
pumping proud patriotic blood? It reminded me of Wag the
Dog-- 8 macho americans storm a dangerous terrorist hospital
and rescue the pretty blonde princess from the axis of evil...
and we've got VIDEO!
\_ because they film a lot of stuff for both training and
how-can-we-improve purposes. if you weren't so anti-
military you might understand how it works.
\_ Which is of course why we see so much footage of bombed
out schools and dead soldiers on the evening news. I'm
not anti-military, I'm against the spin efforts the
government is pushing. It's not fair to the american
public and the soldiers themselves to release footage of
a quasi-staged rescue but forbid releasing footage of
military failures.
\_ if you have to ask...
\_ you're useless
\_ 1. She didn't fight until the bitter end. Her gun was jammed.
2. Contrary to US media, she was not mistreated after her
capture.
\_ interestingly, in today's chron they're reporting there
is evidence of sexual assault in her capture. Article
Titled "POW Lynch was raped by Iraqi Captors, biography says"
\_ [Graphic detail censored to keep motd work-safe.]
\_ one of the few news worthy items got censored? for
work safeness? so its ok for your boss to see the
junk on the motd on your screen wasting company time
and resources but not if it refers to a soldier's
anal rape at the hands of her barbaric captors?
\_ They lied about WMD. They lied about her going
down fighting. They lied about circumstances of
her rescue. Could they be lying about her having
been raped?
\_ not mistreated? so get anally raped by one or more Iraqis
doesn't count as mistreatment? there's a human rights
violation investigation going on since shortly after the
government fell. The WP misreported. Bush nor any other
admin figure said she went down fighting.
\_ Yea, some military doctors says some of her
wounds are unlikely to be caused by the Humvee crash.
She herself remembers nothing except that she was
treated well throughout her captivity.
\_ They're lying about her not being raped, too!
Those bastards! |
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