David Hall wrote:
trotsky wrote in message
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Oh, my bad--apparently the dumb bitch was captured by the Iraqi medical
staff.


No, but obviously she wasn't captured by terrorists either.


Does not compute. Every act the "insurgents" commit is referred to as a
terrorist act by the right-leaning media. When did they go from being
soldiers who aren't terrorists to committing "acts of terror"? At some
point you'll be forced to acknowledge the mountains of bull**** the
administration and the media has used to describe every situation that
occurs in Iraq.


PFC. Lynch was captured following a firefight with Iraqi soldiers
during the war. This does differ somewhat from acts of insurgency
performed by non-uniformed members of a self-appointed partisan group.

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When did she become "the dumb bitch," by the way?


It was a sarcastic way of referring to the fact that she wasn't killed
by "death squads" or "terrorists" and dumped in an unmarked grave, but
rather was found in an Iraqi hospital receiving proper medical treatment.


She wasn't driving, isn't

the one who took a wrong turn, wasn't responsible for getting ambushed, and
hasn't done anything else that I know of that would justify such
characterization.


Again, the comment didn't refer to her intelligence or anything she did,
but rather sarcastically referred to your refusal to acknowledge that
her being put in a hospital didn't quite make the Iraqis as monstrous as
your propaganda makes them out to be.


She was raped and brutalized AFTER being captured.


Apparently she wasn't so brutalized as to not be able to hit the talk
show circuit, though. Brutality is a relative thing--Japanese soldiers
did some things during WWII that I can't even speak of. Then again, the
U.S. in turn dropped A bombs on the Japanese so they could melt or die
of radiation poisoning. One can only imagine the birth defects that
were to follow. Regardless, when members of the Bush administration
tell us all the Iraqis are "thugs", "assassins", and have "death squads"
out the ass, one doesn't expect Lynch to be around to hit the talk show
circuit, but rather expects her raped and brutalized body to be dumped
in one of those unmarked graves we keep hearing about. And even that's
a stretch, because the bulk of the soldiers were supposed to be ****ed
because of all those WMDs that were floating around the country. Why is
Lynch even alive? Were the "thugs and assassins" on vacation that day?


That sure indicates
a level of "monstrousity" to me.


With that spelling I can see why you put the word in quotes. Were you
left behind too?


She was treated well by the Iraqi
medical staff after she was dumped there, but the Iraqi soldiers
either were "monstrous" to her or allowed other Iraqis to be so prior
to dumping her in the hospital.


That's a pretty vague explanation. That's all we've heard vis a vis Ms.
Lynch--vagaries. The propaganda machine wasn't workin' too good that day.


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You're skirting the issue. You can call it a religious issue if it
makes you feel better. Whatever way you slice it, they aren't given the
same latitude that the Bush administration gives themselves. I can't
believe you even argue this point. You should be apologizing an
infinite amount of times for the lack of WMDs and the lies about the
purchase of "nucular" material, none of which has anything to do with
terrorism in the first ****ing place. Then, you can finish it off with
more apologies for the Taliban being alive and well in Afghanistan, and
also give an honorable mention to the fact that Pakistan is most
probably as stronghold for terrorists too, with nothing happening there,
and then finish off your apologies with an explanation for why, if the
vast majority of terrorists committing the acts on 9/11 were Saudi,
nothing is being done in/to Saudi Arabia.


Non response noted. Can't you guys e-mail each other back and forth and
come up with a decent collective response?