4/16    The Truth about the Private Lynch rescue
        http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,5944-648517,00.html
        \_ frankly, Dr. Harith sounds pretty effete and out of touch
           \_ How so?
              \_ he said his colleagues weren't treated courteously
                 during the POW rescue
                 \_ How dreadful!  They used standard swat team tactics to go
                    into a place with unknown dangers and actually dared to
                    do as trained and not assume that just because some clown
                    is wearing a stethoscope that he's a nice friendly happy
                    smiley doctor.  It would've been better if they didn't
                    cuff him and he pulled a gun and shot a few I guess.
                    \_ It would have been better if they'd secured the area
                       and then let the doctors get on with their work.
                       \_ WTF do you think they mean by "securing the area"??
                          Everyone who isn't on the team goes into cuffs and
                          gets a boot on their back.  That's what it means.
                          The ignorance around here is shocking.
                          \_ They walk in, raise their arms and show their
                             naked palms in the international sign of
                             nonbelligerence, and say, "Ok, people, now
                             please don't do anything."  What do *you*
                             think "securing an area" means?
                             \_ lol
                     \_ True, can't really argue with you on that one.  But
                        keep in mind some of these doctors are still a little
                        touchy from Gulf War I when we were bombing their
                        hospitals.
        \_ I wonder if Lynch will ever be able to tell her own story.
           \_ Probably after she leaves the Army, but not until then.
        \_ If an Iraqi told you guys the US Flag originally had 100 stars,
           but Bush had the CIA secretly remove 1/2 of them using the FBI
           and special forces, you'd probably start checking the ashes
           of the last flag you burned to look for the missing 50 stars. -ax
        \_ I didn't read the link.  Why would I care?  Is there a conspiracy
           about her rescue?  Was she really not rescued?  Did the evil
           Bush admin send out special ops to change the road sign so she
           could be ambushed and then rescued for PR purposes later?  Don't
           you have something better to worry your little head about?
           \_ I didn't read your post.  You suck.
              \_ Yes.  You did read my post.  Anyway, I got a few minutes and
                 read the link.  It was even more stupid than I imagined.
                 \_ What makes it stupid? It sounds like a pretty likely
                    scenario for what happened. What is stupid is the US
                    insistence on stonewalling the whole thing. We did
                    nothing to be ashamed of.
                    \_ It's stupid because it's the standard droning anti-US
                       noise told entirely from a single perspective without
                       the slightest shred of critical thought or research
                       into the hows or whys of the way a swat team style
                       action works.  "I look like a doctor so I should be
                       left alone to wander about in a combat zone doing my
                       doctoring!"  Ridiculous.  So anyone who can find a
                       white coat and a tie shouldn't be secured in a combat
                       zone?  Need I go on?
                       \_ What's stupid is the US media repeatedly calling
                          it a "daring" rescue attempt.  Now we know how
                          "daring" it was.
           \_ Silly rabbit, the whole rescue took place in Sound Stage 9.
              There was no war.  There was no ambush.  There were no POWs.
              And there certainly was no rescue.  Lynch is actually a
              bit actress who did soft porn on the side.
              \_ They probably used the same stage as the moon landing.
              \_ Naw, they use computer graphics nowadays. The same team
                 that did Shrek, I think.
              \_ I thought she looked a little like the village girl
                 from Wag The Dog.
                 \_ Lynch is not as busty.