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前几天网上就有人怀疑是伪造的行动，现在那女兵的家人和伊拉克官方都进行了否认。如果这也算心理战的话。。。$%$#%#，简直是对心理战的侮辱。
这是网上当时流传的怀疑：
那个所谓被拯救的女兵根本就没有被俘！
“拯救”版的《真实的谎言》：（综合网友的观点,大家可继续完善再转帖）
1.美国侵略者自己导演的一处戏，她根本就没被俘虏。
纳西里耶战役后，美军对其他的阵亡失踪官兵不闻不问。却惟独把此人的照片到处散发，
大造19岁美丽女兵可能阵亡的舆论。现在又惟独刚好只把此人救了出来，岂不让人奇怪？
请注意到这个女兵没有出现在伊拉克电视台的镜头中。事实可能就是此人从来没有被俘过
，这是精心排练的一出
戏。
2.如果她真的被俘虏了，且在医院被营救，那么又说明什么呢？说明美国军方只会说谎话
，因为他们说伊拉克虐待俘虏，打死俘虏，如果真是这样，伊拉克还有好心把她送到医院
吗？
3.先假设这个事件是真实的，那么既然伊拉克人把战俘放在医院里进行治疗，可以证明战
俘是没有生命危险的。恰恰是美军的营救行动极可能会造成战俘的危险。结论就是1：美
军是一群莽撞的蠢货，这个行动根本不应该进行；2：这个行动根本就是子虚乌有。二者
必居其一。
4. 美国人之所以把这场戏布置在医院里是因为这个女兵本来就因为枪伤正在接受治疗。
而美军如果要进一步制造战俘被虐待的证据的话，是没有人愿意充当演员的。
5.“拯救”行动还带记者。不怕“拯救”不成功，或者人质被打死。可是他们偏偏不怕带
记者。说明： A、记者是被买通了的。 B、记者本身就是他们的。 C、根本没有女兵被俘
虏，假打。
6. 看见那张林奇被救出的照片吗，衣服好干净，还有化妆。连国旗都背着呐。灯光打在
林奇的身上。好莱坞大导真细心。
7.看看战争进行到今天，美英已经宣布他们几次占领巴士拉和乌姆盖斯尔了。占领的次数
也太多了点吧。美国侵略者是不是太爱说谎了呀。 美国还宣布51师整师投降，美军制造
谎言来进行心理战是有前科的。
8.在此之前，五角大楼一直宣称，美军伤亡人数很少。在报道林奇时，又突然间传出这么
多士兵下落不明的消息，五角大楼如何自圆其说？ 《请看他们的报道：一个机修连的12
人小组就此失去联系，其中还包括了一名今年19岁的美国女兵杰西卡・林奇》
这是今天的消息。:smoke:
===================================================================
[晴空] 于 2003-04-04 18:20:24发表
1。美国19岁女兵弹尽重伤被俘，海豹队英勇解救。
2。美军第三师逼近到巴格达城下6-20英里，完全控制、或者80%占领
巴格达萨达姆国际机场。
全是谎言！哈哈哈。
谎言1的被拆穿的证据：
1.1 伊拉克方面的声明
1.2 林奇的父亲否认他的女儿受了任何枪伤或刀伤。五角大楼对“林奇英勇击毙7名
伊军士兵”拒绝发表任何评论。
谎言2被拆穿的证据：
2.1： 4月4日上午8点：新西兰记者在巴格达国际机场现场揭露机场被占领骗局
2.2: 人民日报网4月4日讯：“倒萨军”兵临城下 巴格达不见备战场面
1.1 伊拉克方面的声明：
伊拉克声称美女兵被营救为美方导演的假新闻
据卡塔尔半岛电视台消息：伊拉克军方发言人声称关于美军女兵杰西卡被营救的新闻为彻
头彻底的假新闻。据称伊军方从来没有得到过俘虏杰西卡・林奇的报告。而且据称所谓营
救行动发生的“萨达姆医院”从3月29日起就已经在美军的控制之下。
伊方认为：美军早在3月23日，所谓杰西卡失踪之时就已经把杰西卡等人转移在一个秘密
的地方，随后制造了大量的舆论，然后自导自演了一场所谓的“营救”来企图获取民意的
支持。
1.2 林奇的父亲否认他的女儿受了任何枪伤或刀伤。五角大楼对“林奇英勇击毙7名
伊军士兵”拒绝发表任何评论。这些传奇性说法的出处是《华盛顿邮报》。
大家请看yahoo上的美联社新闻：
Family of POW: She Wasn't Shot, Stabbed (AP) - The father of rescued POW Army Pfc. Jessica Lynch said Thursday she
was in great spirits following her first surgery and said doctors told him
she had not been shot or stabbed during her ordeal. "We have heard and seen
reports that she had
multiple gunshot wounds and a knife stabbing. The doctor has not seen any of
this," Gregory Lynch Sr. said. "There's no entry (wounds) whatsoever." Lynch
said his 19-year-old daughter, who is at a military hospital in Germany, had
surgery on her back.
More...
http://story.news.yahoo.com/fc?cid=34&tmpl=fc&in=US&cat=US_Armed_Forces
2.的证据：
2.1： 4月4日上午8点：新西兰记者在巴格达国际机场现场揭露机场被占领骗局
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=3350810&thesection=news&the
subsection=dialogue
New Zealand Herald
Robert Fisk: Reports of airport assault premature
04.04.2003
8.00am
SADDAM HUSSEIN INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT - So where are the Americans? I prowled
the empty departure lounges, mooched through the abandoned customs ...华岳论坛 - "http://washeng.net"
department, chatted to the seven armed militia guards, met the airport
director and stood beside the runways
where two dust-covered Iraqi Airways passenger jets -- an old 727 and an even
more elderly Antonov -- stood forlornly on the runway not far from an equally
decrepit military helicopter.
那么，美国人在哪儿呢？我徘徊过空空如也的乘客出发大厅，徘徊过被遗弃的海关部门，
与7个武装民兵警卫闲聊，碰见过机场的的主管，并且站在跑道上，那儿有两架蒙上灰尘
的伊拉克航空公司的客机-- 一架老旧的波音727和一架更老的安东诺夫飞机 --
它们孤零凄惨地停在跑道上，不远处是一架同样衰老的军用直升机。
And all I could hear was the distant whisper of high-flying jets and the
chatter of the flocks of birds which have nested near the airport car park on
this, the first day of real summer in Baghdad. ...华岳论坛 - "http://huayue.org"
在这巴格达真正的夏天的第一天，我所能听见的是远处高飞的军用喷气机的低语和成群的
鸟儿的唧唧喳喳，这些鸟儿在机场停车场附近做窝。
Only three hours earlier, the BBC had reported claims that forward units of
an American mechanised infantry division were less than 16km west of Baghdad
-- and that some US troops had taken up positions on the very edge of the ...华岳论坛 - "http://huazhen.net"
international airport.
仅仅3小时之前，BBC报道说美军机械化步兵师的前锋部队声称他们在巴格达以西不到16公
里的地方，并且声称一些美军已在国际机场的边缘占据了阵地。
But I was 27km west of the city.
但是，我是在这个城市以西27公里的地方。 ...华岳论坛 - "http://washeng.net"
And there were no Americans, no armour, not a soul around the runways of the
airport whose namesake, in poster form, sat nonchalantly in the arrivals
lounge in a business suit, cigar in hand. Even more astonishingly, there was
no sign of the 12,000
Republican Guards whom the US division expected to fight.
没有美军，没有装甲车辆，机场跑道上连个孤魂野鬼也没有，而为这个机场冠名的萨达姆
的画像，若无其事地坐落在机场乘客到达大厅里，画像中的萨达姆身穿西服、雪茄在手。
Indeed, Saddam Hussein International Airport looked as if it was enduring an
industrial strike (let us not conceive of such an event in Saddam's Iraq)
rather than an imminent takeover by the world's only superpower.
确实，萨达姆侯赛因国际机场看上去好象在经历一场罢工，而不是面临世界上唯一超级大
国的就在眼前的接管。
Was it true, the Iraqi minister of information was asked at his daily 2pm
press conference (11pm NZT) - a routine institution of usually deadly tedium
- that the Americans were at the airport?
美国人到了机场，这是不是真的？伊拉克新闻部长在他下午2点的每日记者招待会上被问
道。
"Rubbish!" he shouted. "Lies! Go and look for yourself."
“造谣！”他高声嚷道。“谎言！你们可以自己去看。” ...华岳论坛 - "http://huayue.org"
So we did.
所以，我们去机场看了。
And, alas for the Anglo-American spokesmen in Doha and the US officer quoted
on the BBC, the Iraqi minister was right and the Americans were wrong. But
it's a good idea to take these things, if not with a pinch of salt, then at
least with the knowledge
that there are always two reasons for every decision taken in this violent,
ruthless land.
遗憾啊，在多哈的英美军发言人和BBC引用的那位美军军官，伊拉克新闻部长是对的，美
国人错了。.......
Sure, the Americans had been caught lying again - as they were about the
"securing" of Nasiriyah more than a week ago - but was that the only reason
journalists were permitted to visit Baghdad airport? We saw no Republican ...华岳论坛 - "http://huazhen.net"
Guards - just as the
Americans have themselves somehow failed to discover the 12,000 Republican
Guards supposedly facing them.
Indeed, what I found most extraordinary was that there appeared to be
absolutely no attempt to block the road into Baghdad from the airport. ...华岳论坛 - "http://washeng.net"
Save for a few soldiers on the streets and a police squad car, you might have
thought this a mildly warm holiday afternoon.
Was their some kind of trap about to be sprung? Were the Americans being
lured into the gentle, palm-fringed highway into town because, unknown to all
of us, there was in fact some real armour hidden away in the great fields on
the western banks of the
Tigris?
All day, I had asked myself about the supposed American assault-to-come on
Baghdad.
Where were the panicking crowds? Where were the food queues? Where were the
empty streets? True, the motorway to the airport was a spooky, lonely
journey.
But the centre of Baghdad was livelier than for many days.
The city authorities have put more of their Chinese double-decker buses back
on the streets - normal service, as they say, has been resumed - and the
railway company claimed its trains were still leaving for northern Iraq. ...华岳论坛 - "http://huayue.org"
At lunchtime, I dropped into the Furud Takeaway for my daily fix of chicken
"shish-taouk", tomatoes and green beans.
It was packed with Shia families, the ladies in black chadors, the men ...华岳论坛 - "http://huazhen.net"
largely bearded, chomping through giant "mezzes" of "hoummus" and "tabouleh"
and lamb and rice.
The television was showing an Iranian channel, a musical in the Persian
language. Iranian TV has two Arabic channels whose signal can be picked up
without a satellite dish - and many Baghdadis trust their news service more
than that of Kuwaiti or Saudi
television.
Near the Rafidiyeh Bridge, in a canyon of traffic, I caught sight of a ...华岳论坛 - "http://washeng.net"
middle-aged man staring at the great monument to Saddam's "victory" in the
1980-88 war with Iran.
At the base of a column, iron, helmeted soldiers stood behind iron sandbags,
firing an iron machine-gun at their Persian enemies, an iron soldier throwing
an iron grenade in the same direction.
There is this monument to military victory in Baghdad, a monument to the
"martyrs" of that victory - perhaps half a million of them - and a monument
to the unknown soldier of that same war.
Ex-prisoners asked for a monument to their suffering - in eight years, there
were 60,000 of them - but their request was officially turned down.
Was that to emphasise the humiliation of surrender? Is this a lesson for the
young Iraqi soldiers of today whose combat troops I saw on the road south of
Baghdad on Wednesday, jumping from their trucks in steel helmets and flak
jackets? Each night, I
can hear the drumbeat of explosions and cluster bombs west of the city. ...华岳论坛 - "http://huayue.org"
Who is dying there? The Chief of Staff of the Republican Guards' Baghdad
Division -- the same division whom the Americans are supposedly incinerating
- announces that he has suffered only 17 dead and 35 wounded. ...华岳论坛 - "http://huazhen.net"
Every morning, the newspaper Qaddisiyeh carries a detailed battle report from
the front lines - always supposing there is a front line - which includes
unit numbers and brigades.
On Wednesday, for example, the newspaper informed its readers that the ...华岳论坛 - "http://washeng.net"
Americans failed to cut the Kut to Baghdad highway, that Iraqi forces
destroyed 14 US tanks in the province of Diwaniyeh, that the 704th, 424th and
504th Brigades of the Iraqi
army's 3rd Army Corps prevented a US thrust near Suq el-Shuqh.
And so on and so forth.
Whether this represents anything like the battles which the Iraqis believe
they are fighting will await the inquiries of historians.
Certainly, no one here takes the total of tanks and planes destroyed too
seriously, although the Iraqis inevitably popped up yesterday to "confirm"
the American admission of an F-18 aircraft shot down over the country.
Thus another long day, peppered with the rumble of faraway detonations,
closed at Baghdad airport last night, dusk falling over the grimy terminals
with their painted exhortations of "Down, Down America" and the airport's
director, Wafa Abdullah
Jabbouri, announcing that "there is no-one at the airport, you can see it's
completely safe, even the workers still turn up each day." No doubt they do.
And while there's a large complex of buildings blown to pieces by missiles a
mile away and the airport radar system is out of action after an early raid
by American or British jets, Mr. Jabbouri appeared to be correct. ...华岳论坛 - "http://huayue.org"
Had the Americans found themselves miles away on the edge of the old RAF
airbase at Habbaniyeh, one wondered, and confused it with the airport outside
Baghdad? Had they sent a patrol up to the far side of the Saddam airport for
a few minutes, just to
say they'd been there? Back in 1941, a German patrol briefly captured the ...华岳论坛 - "http://huazhen.net"
last tram-stop on the line west of Moscow, collecting the discarded passenger
tickets as souvenirs - and then got no farther.
But few here believe the Americans cannot bash their way into Baghdad if they
really want to. After all, Napoleon got to Moscow in the end. ...华岳论坛 - "http://washeng.net"
I guess it's the same old question. The Russians could hold Stalingrad
because they loved Russia as much as they feared Marshal Stalin.
Does that equation of patriotism and dictatorship apply to the Iraqis?
Messers Bush and Blair must hope it does not.
这是网上当时流传的怀疑：
那个所谓被拯救的女兵根本就没有被俘！
“拯救”版的《真实的谎言》：（综合网友的观点,大家可继续完善再转帖）
1.美国侵略者自己导演的一处戏，她根本就没被俘虏。
纳西里耶战役后，美军对其他的阵亡失踪官兵不闻不问。却惟独把此人的照片到处散发，
大造19岁美丽女兵可能阵亡的舆论。现在又惟独刚好只把此人救了出来，岂不让人奇怪？
请注意到这个女兵没有出现在伊拉克电视台的镜头中。事实可能就是此人从来没有被俘过
，这是精心排练的一出
戏。
2.如果她真的被俘虏了，且在医院被营救，那么又说明什么呢？说明美国军方只会说谎话
，因为他们说伊拉克虐待俘虏，打死俘虏，如果真是这样，伊拉克还有好心把她送到医院
吗？
3.先假设这个事件是真实的，那么既然伊拉克人把战俘放在医院里进行治疗，可以证明战
俘是没有生命危险的。恰恰是美军的营救行动极可能会造成战俘的危险。结论就是1：美
军是一群莽撞的蠢货，这个行动根本不应该进行；2：这个行动根本就是子虚乌有。二者
必居其一。
4. 美国人之所以把这场戏布置在医院里是因为这个女兵本来就因为枪伤正在接受治疗。
而美军如果要进一步制造战俘被虐待的证据的话，是没有人愿意充当演员的。
5.“拯救”行动还带记者。不怕“拯救”不成功，或者人质被打死。可是他们偏偏不怕带
记者。说明： A、记者是被买通了的。 B、记者本身就是他们的。 C、根本没有女兵被俘
虏，假打。
6. 看见那张林奇被救出的照片吗，衣服好干净，还有化妆。连国旗都背着呐。灯光打在
林奇的身上。好莱坞大导真细心。
7.看看战争进行到今天，美英已经宣布他们几次占领巴士拉和乌姆盖斯尔了。占领的次数
也太多了点吧。美国侵略者是不是太爱说谎了呀。 美国还宣布51师整师投降，美军制造
谎言来进行心理战是有前科的。
8.在此之前，五角大楼一直宣称，美军伤亡人数很少。在报道林奇时，又突然间传出这么
多士兵下落不明的消息，五角大楼如何自圆其说？ 《请看他们的报道：一个机修连的12
人小组就此失去联系，其中还包括了一名今年19岁的美国女兵杰西卡・林奇》
这是今天的消息。:smoke:
===================================================================
[晴空] 于 2003-04-04 18:20:24发表
1。美国19岁女兵弹尽重伤被俘，海豹队英勇解救。
2。美军第三师逼近到巴格达城下6-20英里，完全控制、或者80%占领
巴格达萨达姆国际机场。
全是谎言！哈哈哈。
谎言1的被拆穿的证据：
1.1 伊拉克方面的声明
1.2 林奇的父亲否认他的女儿受了任何枪伤或刀伤。五角大楼对“林奇英勇击毙7名
伊军士兵”拒绝发表任何评论。
谎言2被拆穿的证据：
2.1： 4月4日上午8点：新西兰记者在巴格达国际机场现场揭露机场被占领骗局
2.2: 人民日报网4月4日讯：“倒萨军”兵临城下 巴格达不见备战场面
1.1 伊拉克方面的声明：
伊拉克声称美女兵被营救为美方导演的假新闻
据卡塔尔半岛电视台消息：伊拉克军方发言人声称关于美军女兵杰西卡被营救的新闻为彻
头彻底的假新闻。据称伊军方从来没有得到过俘虏杰西卡・林奇的报告。而且据称所谓营
救行动发生的“萨达姆医院”从3月29日起就已经在美军的控制之下。
伊方认为：美军早在3月23日，所谓杰西卡失踪之时就已经把杰西卡等人转移在一个秘密
的地方，随后制造了大量的舆论，然后自导自演了一场所谓的“营救”来企图获取民意的
支持。
1.2 林奇的父亲否认他的女儿受了任何枪伤或刀伤。五角大楼对“林奇英勇击毙7名
伊军士兵”拒绝发表任何评论。这些传奇性说法的出处是《华盛顿邮报》。
大家请看yahoo上的美联社新闻：
Family of POW: She Wasn't Shot, Stabbed (AP) - The father of rescued POW Army Pfc. Jessica Lynch said Thursday she
was in great spirits following her first surgery and said doctors told him
she had not been shot or stabbed during her ordeal. "We have heard and seen
reports that she had
multiple gunshot wounds and a knife stabbing. The doctor has not seen any of
this," Gregory Lynch Sr. said. "There's no entry (wounds) whatsoever." Lynch
said his 19-year-old daughter, who is at a military hospital in Germany, had
surgery on her back.
More...
http://story.news.yahoo.com/fc?cid=34&tmpl=fc&in=US&cat=US_Armed_Forces
2.的证据：
2.1： 4月4日上午8点：新西兰记者在巴格达国际机场现场揭露机场被占领骗局
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=3350810&thesection=news&the
subsection=dialogue
New Zealand Herald
Robert Fisk: Reports of airport assault premature
04.04.2003
8.00am
SADDAM HUSSEIN INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT - So where are the Americans? I prowled
the empty departure lounges, mooched through the abandoned customs ...华岳论坛 - "http://washeng.net"
department, chatted to the seven armed militia guards, met the airport
director and stood beside the runways
where two dust-covered Iraqi Airways passenger jets -- an old 727 and an even
more elderly Antonov -- stood forlornly on the runway not far from an equally
decrepit military helicopter.
那么，美国人在哪儿呢？我徘徊过空空如也的乘客出发大厅，徘徊过被遗弃的海关部门，
与7个武装民兵警卫闲聊，碰见过机场的的主管，并且站在跑道上，那儿有两架蒙上灰尘
的伊拉克航空公司的客机-- 一架老旧的波音727和一架更老的安东诺夫飞机 --
它们孤零凄惨地停在跑道上，不远处是一架同样衰老的军用直升机。
And all I could hear was the distant whisper of high-flying jets and the
chatter of the flocks of birds which have nested near the airport car park on
this, the first day of real summer in Baghdad. ...华岳论坛 - "http://huayue.org"
在这巴格达真正的夏天的第一天，我所能听见的是远处高飞的军用喷气机的低语和成群的
鸟儿的唧唧喳喳，这些鸟儿在机场停车场附近做窝。
Only three hours earlier, the BBC had reported claims that forward units of
an American mechanised infantry division were less than 16km west of Baghdad
-- and that some US troops had taken up positions on the very edge of the ...华岳论坛 - "http://huazhen.net"
international airport.
仅仅3小时之前，BBC报道说美军机械化步兵师的前锋部队声称他们在巴格达以西不到16公
里的地方，并且声称一些美军已在国际机场的边缘占据了阵地。
But I was 27km west of the city.
但是，我是在这个城市以西27公里的地方。 ...华岳论坛 - "http://washeng.net"
And there were no Americans, no armour, not a soul around the runways of the
airport whose namesake, in poster form, sat nonchalantly in the arrivals
lounge in a business suit, cigar in hand. Even more astonishingly, there was
no sign of the 12,000
Republican Guards whom the US division expected to fight.
没有美军，没有装甲车辆，机场跑道上连个孤魂野鬼也没有，而为这个机场冠名的萨达姆
的画像，若无其事地坐落在机场乘客到达大厅里，画像中的萨达姆身穿西服、雪茄在手。
Indeed, Saddam Hussein International Airport looked as if it was enduring an
industrial strike (let us not conceive of such an event in Saddam's Iraq)
rather than an imminent takeover by the world's only superpower.
确实，萨达姆侯赛因国际机场看上去好象在经历一场罢工，而不是面临世界上唯一超级大
国的就在眼前的接管。
Was it true, the Iraqi minister of information was asked at his daily 2pm
press conference (11pm NZT) - a routine institution of usually deadly tedium
- that the Americans were at the airport?
美国人到了机场，这是不是真的？伊拉克新闻部长在他下午2点的每日记者招待会上被问
道。
"Rubbish!" he shouted. "Lies! Go and look for yourself."
“造谣！”他高声嚷道。“谎言！你们可以自己去看。” ...华岳论坛 - "http://huayue.org"
So we did.
所以，我们去机场看了。
And, alas for the Anglo-American spokesmen in Doha and the US officer quoted
on the BBC, the Iraqi minister was right and the Americans were wrong. But
it's a good idea to take these things, if not with a pinch of salt, then at
least with the knowledge
that there are always two reasons for every decision taken in this violent,
ruthless land.
遗憾啊，在多哈的英美军发言人和BBC引用的那位美军军官，伊拉克新闻部长是对的，美
国人错了。.......
Sure, the Americans had been caught lying again - as they were about the
"securing" of Nasiriyah more than a week ago - but was that the only reason
journalists were permitted to visit Baghdad airport? We saw no Republican ...华岳论坛 - "http://huazhen.net"
Guards - just as the
Americans have themselves somehow failed to discover the 12,000 Republican
Guards supposedly facing them.
Indeed, what I found most extraordinary was that there appeared to be
absolutely no attempt to block the road into Baghdad from the airport. ...华岳论坛 - "http://washeng.net"
Save for a few soldiers on the streets and a police squad car, you might have
thought this a mildly warm holiday afternoon.
Was their some kind of trap about to be sprung? Were the Americans being
lured into the gentle, palm-fringed highway into town because, unknown to all
of us, there was in fact some real armour hidden away in the great fields on
the western banks of the
Tigris?
All day, I had asked myself about the supposed American assault-to-come on
Baghdad.
Where were the panicking crowds? Where were the food queues? Where were the
empty streets? True, the motorway to the airport was a spooky, lonely
journey.
But the centre of Baghdad was livelier than for many days.
The city authorities have put more of their Chinese double-decker buses back
on the streets - normal service, as they say, has been resumed - and the
railway company claimed its trains were still leaving for northern Iraq. ...华岳论坛 - "http://huayue.org"
At lunchtime, I dropped into the Furud Takeaway for my daily fix of chicken
"shish-taouk", tomatoes and green beans.
It was packed with Shia families, the ladies in black chadors, the men ...华岳论坛 - "http://huazhen.net"
largely bearded, chomping through giant "mezzes" of "hoummus" and "tabouleh"
and lamb and rice.
The television was showing an Iranian channel, a musical in the Persian
language. Iranian TV has two Arabic channels whose signal can be picked up
without a satellite dish - and many Baghdadis trust their news service more
than that of Kuwaiti or Saudi
television.
Near the Rafidiyeh Bridge, in a canyon of traffic, I caught sight of a ...华岳论坛 - "http://washeng.net"
middle-aged man staring at the great monument to Saddam's "victory" in the
1980-88 war with Iran.
At the base of a column, iron, helmeted soldiers stood behind iron sandbags,
firing an iron machine-gun at their Persian enemies, an iron soldier throwing
an iron grenade in the same direction.
There is this monument to military victory in Baghdad, a monument to the
"martyrs" of that victory - perhaps half a million of them - and a monument
to the unknown soldier of that same war.
Ex-prisoners asked for a monument to their suffering - in eight years, there
were 60,000 of them - but their request was officially turned down.
Was that to emphasise the humiliation of surrender? Is this a lesson for the
young Iraqi soldiers of today whose combat troops I saw on the road south of
Baghdad on Wednesday, jumping from their trucks in steel helmets and flak
jackets? Each night, I
can hear the drumbeat of explosions and cluster bombs west of the city. ...华岳论坛 - "http://huayue.org"
Who is dying there? The Chief of Staff of the Republican Guards' Baghdad
Division -- the same division whom the Americans are supposedly incinerating
- announces that he has suffered only 17 dead and 35 wounded. ...华岳论坛 - "http://huazhen.net"
Every morning, the newspaper Qaddisiyeh carries a detailed battle report from
the front lines - always supposing there is a front line - which includes
unit numbers and brigades.
On Wednesday, for example, the newspaper informed its readers that the ...华岳论坛 - "http://washeng.net"
Americans failed to cut the Kut to Baghdad highway, that Iraqi forces
destroyed 14 US tanks in the province of Diwaniyeh, that the 704th, 424th and
504th Brigades of the Iraqi
army's 3rd Army Corps prevented a US thrust near Suq el-Shuqh.
And so on and so forth.
Whether this represents anything like the battles which the Iraqis believe
they are fighting will await the inquiries of historians.
Certainly, no one here takes the total of tanks and planes destroyed too
seriously, although the Iraqis inevitably popped up yesterday to "confirm"
the American admission of an F-18 aircraft shot down over the country.
Thus another long day, peppered with the rumble of faraway detonations,
closed at Baghdad airport last night, dusk falling over the grimy terminals
with their painted exhortations of "Down, Down America" and the airport's
director, Wafa Abdullah
Jabbouri, announcing that "there is no-one at the airport, you can see it's
completely safe, even the workers still turn up each day." No doubt they do.
And while there's a large complex of buildings blown to pieces by missiles a
mile away and the airport radar system is out of action after an early raid
by American or British jets, Mr. Jabbouri appeared to be correct. ...华岳论坛 - "http://huayue.org"
Had the Americans found themselves miles away on the edge of the old RAF
airbase at Habbaniyeh, one wondered, and confused it with the airport outside
Baghdad? Had they sent a patrol up to the far side of the Saddam airport for
a few minutes, just to
say they'd been there? Back in 1941, a German patrol briefly captured the ...华岳论坛 - "http://huazhen.net"
last tram-stop on the line west of Moscow, collecting the discarded passenger
tickets as souvenirs - and then got no farther.
But few here believe the Americans cannot bash their way into Baghdad if they
really want to. After all, Napoleon got to Moscow in the end. ...华岳论坛 - "http://washeng.net"
I guess it's the same old question. The Russians could hold Stalingrad
because they loved Russia as much as they feared Marshal Stalin.
Does that equation of patriotism and dictatorship apply to the Iraqis?
Messers Bush and Blair must hope it does not.
