Jessica Lynch 'rescue' a crock, says BBC

[ablang]

Does anyone believe that this is true, or we were misled?

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Jessica Lynch 'rescue' a crock, says BBC

CBC Newsworld will air the BBC's expose of the phony spin the U.S. put on Jessica Lynch's recovery in Iraq.
CP 2003-05-23 02:42:29







TORONTO -- The morale-boosting, too-good-to-be-true rescue of Pte. Jessica Lynch by U.S. special forces is put under critical scrutiny Sunday by a BBC documentary.

War Spin: The Truth About Jessica, airs Sunday at 10 p.m. on CBC Newsworld's program Passionate Eye.


The special uncovers major discrepancies in the Pentagon's Rambo-like interpretation of the rescue in Iraq and concludes the incident is one of the most stunning pieces of news management ever conceived.

John Kampfner, a reporter for the program BBC Correspondent, investigated the famous story of how U.S. troops conducted a "daring rescue" behind enemy lines to extract the seriously wounded 19-year-old private.

He confirmed reports that by the time the raid was conducted on the hospital where Lynch was taken, Iraqi troops had already departed and that she was being well taken care of by doctors and staff.

In addition, her so-called stab and bullet wounds were actually road accident injuries and the special forces knew that at the time.

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[vass0922]

Thats ok.. we're not really in Baghdad either

[Redwolf]

And Saddam International is still named that. Oh, and it turns out the cold war didn't exist and Korea was actually nuked and Koreans live all over the world under a large Non-Disclosure Agreement. Yeah...

[ClubMed]

PR

[Mike]

I don't think it was strickly for the media, but a story like this really does a good job to raise morale.

[Redwolf]

The day a media phenomenon like this becomes all false is the day I shoot my TV, rip out my cable, reject the internet, and go live in a cave somewhere. It'll also be the day you all should do the same, because as much as I hate the news media, I at least know the stories are somewhat reliable and have SOME basis in truth. The top stories I know are true. Or are they? You see what You've made me do. Now I'm developing Conspiraphobia.

[Cruez]

I read something like that a couple of weeks ago...

[osprey4]

There are no infidels in Baghdad!! Never!!

Apparently, there were no Iraqi troops in the hospital so the staff complained the "rescuers" could have simply walked in a gotten her. Of course, hindsight is 20-20.

[vass0922]

Hmm
So this should take away from the fact that she was badly beaten which required back surgery? Ahhh I suppose she got that walkin' to the little girls room in the desert...
She shouldn't of fallen down those stairs... I don't know how it happened, that door popped out of nowhere... she should of listened the first time she wouldn't of had that coffee cup accidentally thrown at her again ....

[franklinz]

my friend is in communications for the air force, and she was one of the many that patched the rescue effort in.
franklinz