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Originally posted by theking
It is immaterial if the military could have sent a taxi to pick her up. Taxi cabs are not used in military operations. The "resuce" was SOP for a military "rescue" operation in a hostile AO.
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You're trying to weasel your way out of this with a straw man. No one is denying that a rescue was attempted. The problem is that the rescue was entirely unecessary, overhyped as some heroic rambo type deal, caused alot of unnecessary destruction to the Iraqi hospital, Lynch was not being abused, not did she fight 'till the last round before she was captured, and it may very well be true that the Iraqi's themselves had tried to return her.
Except for the fact a few special forces guys got to play rambo against a bunch of nurses, everything about the story as reported in the American press is probably a lie.
And if you'd bother to read what the Iraqi doctor said, it was bullets AND blanks, not blanks instead of bullets. He was probably talking about flashbangs.