Quiet Britons outpace US in taming Iraq

[Tripledoc]

Originally posted by TCO
Whaleboy, you fricking pussie. you don't even support the brit effort in Iraq. go play Civ on the computer...you little coward.

Were you not banned? I mean why then would the mod have removed your posts of your primitive thoughts on Balkan women?

[JohnT]

This brings me to the issue, as to whether there are still people who believe that Jessica Lynch was actually rescued.

She wasn't? Did they release her on her own recognizance?

[DinoDoc]

The Iraqis still have her and we also never made it to Bagdad.

[BeBMan]

You made it to Baghdad, but all your forces committed suicide at the gates of the city.

[Whoha]

Originally posted by skywalker


Aren't the Sunni in the south?

Forgive me if I got the geography wrong. I was just trying to say that the Brits had an easier time of it.

no, the sunnis are in the center, the shiites are in the south, and the Kurds are in the north.

[DinoDoc]

Oh that. I have trouble keeping it all straight sometimes.

[Tripledoc]

She was taken from a hospital. there were absolutely no one but civilians there. The rescuers had been given loose ammo to shoot with so as to make it dramatic. So clear manipulation of the media. Civilian doctors were pushed around and ordered to the floor. They put her in quarantene because they feared the Iraqis had contaminated her. The bed she was lying on, which was specially made for curing bedsores, was cut into pieces and samples taken from it. they thought it contained radioactve material. It was the only bedsore bed they had. Who is paranoid here?

Then the allegations that she was raped. Were they true?

[JimmyCracksCorn]

Originally posted by Tripledoc
She was taken from a hospital. there were absolutely no one but civilians there. The rescuers had been given loose ammo to shoot with so as to make it dramatic. So clear manipulation of the media. Civilian doctors were pushed around and ordered to the floor. They put her in quarantene because they feared the Iraqis had contaminated her. The bed she was lying on, which was specially made for curing bedsores, was cut into pieces and samples taken from it. they thought it contained radioactve material. It was the only bedsore bed they had. Who is paranoid here?

Then the allegations that she was raped. Were they true?

Tripledoc's primary source:

[Nubclear]

I have noticed that sources on Apolyton tend to come from two people:



Both are so extreme as to the point where they are exactly the same

[JimmyCracksCorn]

Originally posted by Comrade Tassadar
I have noticed that sources on Apolyton tend to come from two people:



Both are so extreme as to the point where they are exactly the same

I've got to say, Tass, you've got a point. Although the Information Minister was just off the wall.

[Nubclear]

But then again, so is Rummy

[JimmyCracksCorn]

Originally posted by Comrade Tassadar
But then again, so is Rummy

Well, at least when Rumsfeld said US troops were approaching Baghdad... they actually were.

[Nubclear]

True. Unfortunately when things were fine in Baghdad, they actually weren't

[JimmyCracksCorn]

Originally posted by Comrade Tassadar
True. Unfortunately when things were fine in Baghdad, they actually weren't

Don't push it Tass. I said you had a point because they each reported a completely opposite version of what the other one said, but I think that more has to do with the Information Minister being a boldfaced liar.

Ok, if your life depended on it and you had to go on the information given to you by either of these two gentlemen, who would you choose? Thats what I thought...

What it comes down to, is Rumsfeld may spin things positively (name one politician anywhere who doesn't), while the Information Minister just out and out lied.

[Tripledoc]

Neither Rumsfeld nor the Iraqi information minister had anything to say regarding Jessica Lynchs rescue. Whether it was in fact Pentagon who were behind the misinformation campaign, that is feasible. I don't believe the Iraqi information minister made any comments on the case. Also irregularities transpired long after the end of the invasion (but not the war), and the Iraqi information minister was at that time a broken man, presumably because he had been tortured by CIA agents. The information on the US mishandling and abuse of the Jessica Lunch story was investigated by uncowardly American journalists.

Jimmycrackscorns. Your first attampt at being humourous is therefore totally misguided. Your second statement to Tassader, "dont push it" reveals a dangerous degree of bloated self importance, bordering on the threatening.