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Old 05-16-2003, 09:34 AM   #12 (permalink)
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By the way, there was an interesting comment on the BBC website about this story...

This whole article seems to be based on the testimonies of two Iraqi doctors. Why didn't the BBC check with the US doctors about the alleged bullet wounds of Lynch? Why didn't the BBC check with any other source at all, in fact?

One might take a look at this story and dismiss it as a feeble attempt by two Iraqi doctors to make themselves seem innocent and friendly. Perhaps they're hiding something, maybe some not-so-friendly things they did to some of the POWs... This explanation is as logical and persuasive as the other option, that the US administration made the whole incident up, and lied about it to get free publicity.

The great thing about this story is that nobody will change their opinion after reading it. One believer asked, if this story was false, why did the US government not say that? I, a sceptic, might retort: why would they say anything at all if the story is (obviously) false?

Anti-US people will accept this as the real story behind the Lynch affair, and will dismiss as propaganda any US insistence that the story is made up - after all, Bush & co would say that, wouldn't they???

Pro-US people will see this story as obviously fake, and will think up some reasonable arguments why these Iraqi guys would lie. After all, of course these Saddam-supporters would lie, wouldn't they???
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