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To: thames_sider who wrote (100148)	6/4/2003 6:07:08 AM
From: D. Long	Respond to of 281500

but on the JL affair, it still seems to me that there was a surprising effort made by the Iraqis to take good care of her, and none to harm her [post-capture]; and none to hold her in captivity necessitating special ops intervention... The allegations were never that the doctors mistreated her, but that military interrogators were rough with her a bit. In the original depictions of events, it was said that there had been Iraqi military at the hospital. As to whether special-ops were not necessary, that is a good dose of armchair generalship with 20-20 vision. The hospital was in enemy held territory, with reports that Iraqi military was at the hospital. To argue as some have that it was unreasonable to be prepared for a firefight in rescuing a US POW from enemy territory is just wild. Perhaps a civil affairs officer should have driven up to the hospital in a Humvee, knocked on the front door, and asked for our POW back? And please radio the Republican Guard and ask them not to fire on him on the way back to US lines? Let's be reasonable, really. Derek

To: thames_sider who wrote (100148)	6/4/2003 6:44:08 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I just read Derek's reply, and he covered the points I had. The reason the Media wants to put down a rescue like this are not good ones, IMO. Their is a lot of BBC hatred of everything we did in Iraq, so bad that even the Governors of the Network are finally asking for Bias complaints. And why do you want to disbelieve the Military report? It makes sense to me. The Iraqis are trying to CYA afterwards. I really don't understand where you are coming from. Do you have the same dislike for our Military, and/or our Country, that the BBC has?