The American soldier Jessica Lynch who was oh so dramatically rescued on camera during the war, was nearly killed 2 days earlier by her own troops. The whole rescue now looks like it was a made for TV affair.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programme...nt/3028585.stm


The Iraq ambulance taking her to the Americans 2 days before came under fire even though they were told that she was being delivered.

<font color=red>Fricken pathetic... :mad: Is this the example we want to set for a newly liberated country? To become a society full of this crap? Man this crap pisses me off!!</font>

[ 05-18-2003, 10:30 AM: Message edited by: LordKathen ]

Pathetic...really pathetic.

I heard this too. Even though no serious head injury was ever reported (as I recall), the final gambit is thus -

"But doctors now say she has no recollection of the whole episode and probably never will".

If this is true, it's quite amazing. But I guess it fulfilled its purpose, which was to rally the country behind the war. :eek:

Hmmm, let's see, we started firing on ambulances because the Iraqis were using them to transport soldiers and their supplies. Besides, it's not like the BBC can be trusted in it's reporting of what's going on in Iraq. One of their own people there blasted them for misreporting the war.

Memnoch, the country was already behind the war.

the means to the end... although i dont like the means

Evidence of biased reporting by the BBC: somebody says that an ambulance was fired on, by troops that could not know that an American was within, so immediately it is a great error, though she was not hurt. Somebody misreported her injuries, big deal. And, most of all, those guys went in and rescued her for crying out loud. She was a captive, she was being abused, on the evidence of the Iraqi who reported her. Several of her comrades were lying in shallow graves on the grounds of that hospital. She was in danger. This is another reason that I distrust the BBC. When you criticize FOX and hold up the Bebe as more reliable, I just shake my head.

This is just a general request. I know that people don't intend offense for posting it. But can we refrain from posting exploitive type pieces from or about the war, at least here in GD?

I happen to find any sort of Exploitmentery in bad taste. It doesn't matter whether it's an American troop, British, French, Iraqi, or Mozambiqui. Or some celebrity for thta matter. Can we just let Pfc Jessica Lynch have some peace and quiet?

That and Ziroc just made a request that political type posts (we all know that something like this will bring in political guns ...) not be posted in GD, that a new forum for it will be up shortly.

Hate to be a spoil sport, but ...

Thanks