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Have you lost your mind?
Did you see the tape?
Did you see the expression of agony on Lori Piestewa's face when they jerked her head around?
Did you see Jessica Lynch in obvious shock? You think this video shows they took care of them?

Have you lost your mind?

OK, thanks to "seamole" posting a usable link, I've seen it.

It's disturbing. It's Geneva Convention violation material.

And if you have the opinion that I was casting ignoble aspersions on the soldiers
in this incident...you are reading "between the lines" something that just ain't there.
So, just to make it clear, I have nothing but respect and honor for all the
soldiers of the 507th.

As for the wretched state of the clinic, the medical infrastructure of Iraq is such a
wreck, we're sending nurses and doctors to help the Iraqi M.D.s to catch up on
3 decades of medical training, as described in an earlier MSNBC article at
this URL:
http://www.msnbc.com/local/VCS/M343979.asp

The guy pulling on Lori's hair for the propoganda shoot...string him up.
But, the third-world treament Lynch and Lori were getting probably is more a reflection
of the sort of medical care you'd get in a country run by Saddam and his Baathists
for about 3 decades. (But not what Saddam used to get at his personal hospital
in Baghdad...now used by the US Military as seen on CBS.)

As for Johnson's comment, it could be that given the brutality of the combat,
she might have thought the Iraqi Fedayeen just left Lori to die in
the Hummer...without even attempting medical treatment at all.

Myself, the thing I find most disturbing is contemplating what might have
been going on when the camera was NOT taping.

I am sorry if I missjudged your posts.
Many "anti-women in the military" FReepers bashed PFC Lynch when she was rescued and while the media had a field day over her broken body before she said a single word to anybody about anything.
I was given PFC Lynches book, and have read it.
Still, she did not really speak, and I was appalled at the words Rick Bragg, the ghostwriter, attempted to attach to her name.
That NBC aired this video shocked me greatly.
Only the most naieve of idiots did not understand what happened to her at the hands of the Iraqi military.
Even now, people won't leave her alone.She served honorably in the military.That does not give anyone the right to make her the poster child for agenda's she did not sign up for.
I pray she never finds this internet site.
And I am furious that the media will not let her alone.
I pray she, and Lori Piestewa's family and friends, never see that video.
But I know they will.
How can NBC justify this additional bit of torture for them?
Why?