Reply to: Iran threatens to 'Wipe Scotland off the Map'

[Clippy]

[I]THE JESSICA LYNCH STORY

The fiction

Lynch, then a 19-year-old army private, resisted heroically when her supply unit was ambushed near Nasiriyah on 23 March 2003, four days into the invasion. Badly injured, she was taken to an Iraqi hospital where she was allegedly mistreated. After a tip-off, American special forces stormed the hospital on 1 April, rescuing her and recovering the bodies of eight US soldiers. The night raid, which was filmed, was said to have met with fierce resistance.

The facts

During the ambush, Lynch was knocked unconscious as her vehicle crashed. She woke up in the Iraqi hospital with broken bones but no recollection of the incident, and certainly never fired her weapon. She seems to have been well treated. As for the rescue raid, Iraqi doctors said they were herded at gunpoint and treated like insurgents. Medical equipment was smashed. All Iraqi soldiers had left the hospital the previous day, and there was no resistance.

I remember this event - weren't the Iraqi doctors who were caring for Jessica Lynch the ones who told the Americans that they had her and were treating her.

[shaunbhoy]

Dear Mr AfterDinnerJab,

Please don’t nuke Scotland. You’ll never get ‘em all and those that you miss will come down and start running England. The bastards will make their way to London. We’ve got nobody English here capable of running the place , and what we need is some half nuked, fully pissed, chip on the shoulder sweaty socks around the place.
Yours

'Buffy' Buffoon

Fixed that for you!!

hth

SB in "dotting the i's and crossing the t's" mode

[Churchill]

Or the Yankee dogs are such crap shots they couldn't hit a barn door form 10 paces?

They couldn't hit a CAWAB!

[Euro-commuter]

Or the Yankee dogs are such crap shots they couldn't hit a barn door form 10 paces?

I rather liked the phrase used by a Sioux about General Custer: that he was such a bad shot that he couldn't hit a tent from inside it.

[Troll]

Dear Mr AfterDinnerJab,

Please don’t nuke Scotland. You’ll never get ‘em all and those that you miss will come begging in England. The bastards will make their way to London. We’ve got pests here already, the last thing we need is some half nuked, fully pissed, chip on the shoulder sweaty socks around the place. Isn’t there someone else you can nuke?

Yours

'Buffy' Buffoon

Top rant... but you forgot "some half nuked, fully pissed, fried mars bar eating,chip on the shoulder sweaty socks around the place"

[Buffoon]

Dear Mr AfterDinnerJab,

Please don’t nuke Scotland. You’ll never get ‘em all and those that you miss will come begging in England. The bastards will make their way to London. We’ve got pests here already, the last thing we need is some half nuked, fully pissed, chip on the shoulder sweaty socks around the place. Isn’t there someone else you can nuke?

Yours

'Buffy' Buffoon

[Moscow Mule]

Almost as if they had been firing hundreds of blanks and it had all been for show.

Or the Yankee dogs are such crap shots they couldn't hit a barn door form 10 paces?

[Euro-commuter]

THE JESSICA LYNCH STORY

The fiction

Lynch, then a 19-year-old army private, resisted heroically when her supply unit was ambushed near Nasiriyah on 23 March 2003, four days into the invasion. Badly injured, she was taken to an Iraqi hospital where she was allegedly mistreated. After a tip-off, American special forces stormed the hospital on 1 April, rescuing her and recovering the bodies of eight US soldiers. The night raid, which was filmed, was said to have met with fierce resistance.

The facts

During the ambush, Lynch was knocked unconscious as her vehicle crashed. She woke up in the Iraqi hospital with broken bones but no recollection of the incident, and certainly never fired her weapon. She seems to have been well treated. As for the rescue raid, Iraqi doctors said they were herded at gunpoint and treated like insurgents. Medical equipment was smashed. All Iraqi soldiers had left the hospital the previous day, and there was no resistance.

And one of the Iraqi doctors said later that althout the US knew that there were no weapons in the hospital, the US forces stormed it with lights and cameras, and automatic fire all over the place; but strangely, he said, after the GIs left, the doctors found nobody with fresh gunshot wounds. Almost as if they had been firing hundreds of blanks and it had all been for show.

[AlfredJPruffock]

Good stuff - where did you get that from?

You might then be interested in the scandals surrounding these incidents

Read all about it here -

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/...cle2486641.ece

[realityhack]

THE JESSICA LYNCH STORY
THE PAT TILLMAN STORY

Good stuff - where did you get that from?

[AlfredJPruffock]

Well all said and done - if John Reid said it - then it must be true , politicians wouldnt tell porkies about national security - would they now ?

Musnt forget to vote NL next week - cant be too careful these days ....


THE JESSICA LYNCH STORY

The fiction

Lynch, then a 19-year-old army private, resisted heroically when her supply unit was ambushed near Nasiriyah on 23 March 2003, four days into the invasion. Badly injured, she was taken to an Iraqi hospital where she was allegedly mistreated. After a tip-off, American special forces stormed the hospital on 1 April, rescuing her and recovering the bodies of eight US soldiers. The night raid, which was filmed, was said to have met with fierce resistance.

The facts

During the ambush, Lynch was knocked unconscious as her vehicle crashed. She woke up in the Iraqi hospital with broken bones but no recollection of the incident, and certainly never fired her weapon. She seems to have been well treated. As for the rescue raid, Iraqi doctors said they were herded at gunpoint and treated like insurgents. Medical equipment was smashed. All Iraqi soldiers had left the hospital the previous day, and there was no resistance.

THE PAT TILLMAN STORY

The fiction

Tillman, a corporal in the elite Army Rangers, was killed on 22 April 2004, when his unit was attacked in an ambush near the village of Sperah in Afghanistan, near the Pakistan border. He was said to have been killed by enemy fire in the incident, in which an Afghan militia soldier was killed, and two other Rangers injured. He was posthumously awarded the Silver Star for valour, on the basis of a falsified citation. George Bush called him a "national inspiration".

The facts

Tillman's unit was split into two groups as it moved through a canyon on a search mission for al-Qa'ida and Taliban fighters. Tillman was assigned to the advance unit, but it was the second, trailing unit that came under attack. Tillman tried to chase off the attackers. He was killed in chaotic firing by the second unit - even though the driver of its lead vehicle later testified he recognised Tillman as a "friendly" and tried to signal to his colleagues to cease fire.

[foritisme]

Just need to build up Hardrian's wall to stop any fallout coming over the border.

[AlfredJPruffock]

Its an Ill (nuclear) Wind that blows nobody good !

[DodgyAgent]

make sure you get back in time for it's arrival then

should I warn the missus?

[Bluebird]

er so do I

make sure you get back in time for it's arrival then