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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Ilaine who wrote (98982)5/23/2003 10:53:59 PM
From: Dayuhan  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 

the two stories really can't be reconciled.

That's pretty normal in a war environment. If you got ten eyewitnesses to tell the story you'd get ten stories, and the hypothetical truth might well be the eleventh.

The whole issue of whether or not the rescue was heroic is really pretty irrelevant to me. Even if the risk was in fact nil, the rescuers could not have known that, and had to proceed on the assumption that there would be resistance.

I'm sure the story was puffed a bit after the fact, but that's true of just about every war story in history. There's never been a government at war that didn't seize any available opportunity to glorify its own people, and by extension itself.

There are lies, damned lies, and Iraqi government lies.

Into which category do we put US Government lies?

Just curious....
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