Anyone surprised?
 

Not wishing to sound cynical, but can anyone honestly say this comes as any surprise?

sounds about right there to me too Russ

Doesnt surprise me at all.
I always thought something was odd about that whole incident.

As for the rescue, well your talking about a countries armed forces that cannot tell Allied and enemy targets apart. Even with the official recognition system in place. Need I say anymore?

Says her unit took a wrong turn. I didnt realise until now that she was driving. hehehehe

lol, yea, i posted that on .com a while ago - i remember when i first saw that on the news my quizzical/cynical eyebrow was in danger of going through the roof....

wag the dog made real.....:erm:

read michael moores 'Stupid White Men' if you really want to build a rage about how underhand and conniving the govt of the dearly beloved US of A really is :mad:

How convenient !!

:rolleyes: :rolleyes:

Does sound about right. Seems to me that anyone fighting against the American Army is safe. Anyone fighting alongside them is in danger...

The thing is, at the time, the Americans made no official statement. Cleverly, they did not tell the truth, but did not lie either..

Yeah, but it is quite normal in times of extreme stress..

...or extreme BS ;) :D

I guess at the end of the day why did it need reporting? Big lesson to be learnt from Iraq is that its not that good an idea to have the media on the front line. Ok its nice to know and possibly interesting but do we really really need that amount of detail?

Now that sounds more like it ;)

I don't know who I'm more disgusted with, the Pentagon for failing to correct the misleading idea that Lynch had been shot, or the media for being so desparate for a story that they took leave of their basic training - check, check and check again.

Just like the story of the British squaddie whose kevlar helmet apparently stopped him getting shot through the head four times. The BBC even did a report from the front lawn of his parents' house.

Then only afterwards was it revealed he wasn't even wearing the helmet when it got shot up ...

According to Private Eye, at some points, the BBC were recieving so much information that they did not have enough journalists to check the story. The decided to run with these stories, even though they had only been checked by the studio technical staff.. News 24 apparently suffered quite badly with this.

I remember one time when ITV news showed a Baghdad street for 45 minutes because they thought something would happen there. Don't know who was more stupid, them for showing or me for watching...

When people have serious accidents. they can forget the whole thing. I doubt that happened in this case, but it is possible...

And when Hollywood needs a new summer blockbuster :D