Tape confirms Iraqis tried to save U.S. POWs - Jessica and Lori

[warrior1]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3842398/



BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraqi doctors took good care of captured Army Pfc. Jessica Lynch and labored hard but unsuccessfully to save her best friend, according to Iraqi television videotape shot during the soldiers’ captivity in Iraq last spring.



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[pinto]

1. really sad on reading, but thks for the post.

[KoKo]

2. I saw that tape on MSNBC and it made me ill. The voyeur aspects of it

were dreadful. The camera went over the bodies of those three female soldiers showing them in the most dreadful manner. The camera focused on the soldier who eventually died in a way that I wanted to scream if it was MY daughter being shown battered and bruised, incoherent and out of it. I would not want that damned NBC Owned/GE Corporate Whore Network invading my daughters privacy in such a way. It was typical of them to show women, battered and violated. It's the Bush Administration and the Whore Media who seem to have a "thing" about females.

The commentator afterwards never said that they were getting good care, it seemed they showed the tape to inflame the American Public about how the Iraqi's treated female soldiers.

I understand you post is meant to prove that the Iraqi's gave good medical care to them, but I saw the MSNBC report and it was grotesque.
It proved to me that the Media since Saddam's capture is not worth watching for a minute. It's Bush TV all the time and they don't let up for a minute. And, they hate women.

On Edit: I saw the broadcast shown on MSNBC late today. That's why I'm upset. Your link may be milder. I didn't hit on it already having seen what the American Public saw on cable.

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

9. As they say...

... war is hell. No disrespect intended. And this should be a further indictment against the NeoCons for their war of greed.

[wingnut]

3. They weren't doing her c-spine any good

moving her head around to get a better camera shot

[crimson333]

5. not to mention adding to her pain

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[Cocoa]

6. my guess is they got good care

I'm basing this on the fact that they are human, and doctors, and the women were in dreadful shape and needed help badly. I don't think the fact that they are Iraqis would keep them from trying to help her.

Shoshanna Johnson also thought they did their best:

“It was a little shocking to see Lori, but it also gave me a little peace to know that they tried, they did their best for her,” said Johnson, 30, of El Paso, Texas. “I mean, it was obvious they tried to bandage her up and give her medical care.”

[pinto]

7. kick, don't like to see med's demonized by natonality

[crimson333]

8. I was responding to #3

about twisting her for a better camera shot.

[PaDUer]

11. BTW, Shoshana Johnson...

will be dropping the ball at midnite tonite in NYC...saw it on the news last evening..

[Cocoa]

4. pathetic spin by the Pentagon

Officials said Iraqi television videotaped the U.S. POWs for propaganda purposes, but because the tape of the wounded prisoners did not make the Iraqis look good, the network never aired it. NBC News informed the Army that it had obtained the tape before airing it so the families of the soldiers could be told first.

No, I saw this video, it does not make the Iraqis look bad, it makes the U.S. look bad for sending these very young people into this pointless war.

In Iraq, the fact that they were women would have made the U.S. look very bad.

The tape makes the U.S., specifically Bush, look really bad. The woman who died was in unbelievably bad shape.

[underpants]

14. Exactly. How would treated injured soldiers make them look bad?

That sentence wraps around itself.

They should report this as "Recently uncovered videotape illustrates the systematic and pathological lying being done by an American administration consumed with misinformation before during and after the start of the war on Iraq"

[MaineDem]

10. A report on CNN this morning

Didn't show the tape but reported on it and the gist of the report was that the soldiers weren't cared for very well. Goes to show you how reporting is done to manipulate, no?

[radwriter0555]

12. I saw the tapes and was horrified at the injuries, not the treatment of

these poor women by the iraqis. The room was clean, they were clean, their wounds dressed in proper medical bandaging; the blue sheets are sterile sheets. The tape was clearly made to show how WELL the iraqis were caring for the women, in a defensive gesture. They knew they'd be demonized, so this is their proof.

I'm willing to be there is a LOT more video out there validating their GOOD care of these women, who shouldn't have been there to begin with.

Thanks george, for the suffering of these women.

[radwriter0555]

13. BTW, for the record, they weren't in CAPTIVITY. They were under MEDICAL

CARE.

Can't MSNBC get this right?

[Karenina]

15. Those BAD, BAD, BROWN PEOPLE

who dedicate their careers to SAVING LIVES...