BBC Flawed Analysis of Pvt. Lynch Rescue
The BBC, based on interviews with Iraqi doctors, claims that those doctors had attempted to turn Pvt. Lynch over to US forces before she was rescued. This assertion is inconsistent with the conduct of Iraqis at the time, since there was still great fear of doing anything to help the US. At that time these doctors would probably have been summarily executed by Saddam's forces if they had attempted what they claim. The Iraqi lawyer who told the US of her whereabouts and of security measures around the hospital, seems a more credible witness than the doctors. He was concerned enough about his families safety to get his wife and daughter into US protection at the time of the raid.
There have been assertions that the raid was staged to boost morale of coalition forces at a time when they appeared to be stalled. But only left wing bias in some media such as the BBC said that the attack was in trouble. The BBC's own reporter on the scene told them they were wrong. This BBC story rests on two false premises. One, that the doctors at the hospital are more credible than the lawyer who aided Pvt. Lynch's rescue, and two that US forces needed to manufacture some heroic event because the attack was in trouble. The BBC will not admit that many of its reports about the war were wrong or misleading and they do not want to admit that rescuing Pvt. Lynch was a worthwhile mission. It was the BBC that claimed that the weak supply line raids by the Iraqis had "Blunted" the US attack at a time when the "tip of the spear" was still speeding toward Baghdad at a record pace and had received no significant casualties.
It is the BBC that has a credibility problem.
The BBC, based on interviews with Iraqi doctors, claims that those doctors had attempted to turn Pvt. Lynch over to US forces before she was rescued. This assertion is inconsistent with the conduct of Iraqis at the time, since there was still great fear of doing anything to help the US. At that time these doctors would probably have been summarily executed by Saddam's forces if they had attempted what they claim. The Iraqi lawyer who told the US of her whereabouts and of security measures around the hospital, seems a more credible witness than the doctors. He was concerned enough about his families safety to get his wife and daughter into US protection at the time of the raid.
There have been assertions that the raid was staged to boost morale of coalition forces at a time when they appeared to be stalled. But only left wing bias in some media such as the BBC said that the attack was in trouble. The BBC's own reporter on the scene told them they were wrong. This BBC story rests on two false premises. One, that the doctors at the hospital are more credible than the lawyer who aided Pvt. Lynch's rescue, and two that US forces needed to manufacture some heroic event because the attack was in trouble. The BBC will not admit that many of its reports about the war were wrong or misleading and they do not want to admit that rescuing Pvt. Lynch was a worthwhile mission. It was the BBC that claimed that the weak supply line raids by the Iraqis had "Blunted" the US attack at a time when the "tip of the spear" was still speeding toward Baghdad at a record pace and had received no significant casualties.
It is the BBC that has a credibility problem.
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