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[mentalbunny]

Well everyone here knows about Jessica Lynch, a 19 year old Private in the US army from West Virginia who was rescued the other day.

There has been loads of bad press about the war so far, this was just what the States needed to make them look good, a nice Hollywood tale of "our brave troops doing their duty and saving lives", etc.

However us Brits look closer, we take off our rose-tinted specs and say "Why is this girl in the army in the first place?" and "Why is this story so big, what about other stories like the Iraqi guy and his brother who weere caught between Coalition and Iraqi troops and his brother was shot".

It's very nice to hear that Jess is safe now and on her way home, but it's not really worth all this fuss, is it? I guess you'll say "there's nothing wrong with having a story like this, it improves morale" but there's more to life than morale, and this story distracts the US public from what they should be looking at, the big picture.

[LOIC]

"and this story distracts the US public from what they should be looking at"

exactly
the u$ media talk so much about this girl but they don't talk about the "mistakes" of their troops, or just a little.
Thousands of iraqis are suffering and these fucking media just talk about one of their imperialists soldiers.
Anyway, the story is maybe a fraud.

[Liberty Lover]

"However us Brits look closer, we take off our rose-tinted specs and say"

That sounds like racism to me.

"Why is this girl in the army in the first place?"

Because she couldn't find a job anywhere else.

"Why is this story so big, what about other stories like the Iraqi guy and his brother who weere caught between Coalition and Iraqi troops and his brother was shot".

You would care more about a member of your own family than a member of a family you didn't know.

Americans care more about there own countrymen than they do about people of other countries.

It makes sense.

"Thousands of iraqis are suffering."

That's better than the 22 million Iraqi's that were suffering when Saddam was in complete control of his country.

(Edited by Liberty Lover at 12:43 am on April 3, 2003)

[Palmares]

Quote: from Liberty Lover on 10:42 am on April 3, 2003
"However us Brits look closer, we take off our rose-tinted specs and say"

That sounds like racism to me.

No. Just a generalisation.

"Why is this girl in the army in the first place?"

Because she couldn't find a job anywhere else.

Fair enough, but I was thinking more along the lines of equality.

"Why is this story so big, what about other stories like the Iraqi guy and his brother who weere caught between Coalition and Iraqi troops and his brother was shot".

You would care more about a member of your own family than a member of a family you didn't know.

That is not entirely related. Family and nation are different. Of course you care about a death in your family, but do you care about the death of someone you don't know in your country, compared to someone you don't know in another country.

Americans care more about there own countrymen than they do about people of other countries.

It makes sense.

Of course it does. Usually nationalistic countries are like that. Bloody narcissistic.

"Thousands of iraqis are suffering."

That's better than the 22 million Iraqi's that were suffering when Saddam was in complete control of his country.

I think Iraqi's are suffering either way.



(Edited by Cthenthar at 11:08 am on April 3, 2003)


(Edited by Cthenthar at 11:09 am on April 3, 2003)

[mentalbunny]

Well the BBC seemed to be saying that she was n the army because there were no other jobs in here area, cos the place is so crap, kinda thing. Well not that exactly, more that the US gets people to join by offering incentives like education and suchlike, and the BBC doesn't approve. I don't have a position on it really.

[Wolfie]

Does anyone know if she was a frontline combatant?

[mentalbunny]

No Wolfie, she wasn't but I can't remember what she was exactly, sorry.

[The Sniper]

Engineer or clerk or sumting. Women cant be fornt line combants in the British army and i dont think its any different in the US army. Its just the US army taking a chance to try and make a hero of some red neck girl. It just goes to sohw that the Us and Uk do engauge in blantant properganda, which they claim they dont. It also shows how they still need to get the public on board and how everyone doesnt support the war. Fair play to em i just think its abit unfair as there are other US and UK troops being held but u dont see US special forces breaking them out, probably because they aint "cute enough".