Posted on 08/08/2005 9:32:05 AM PDT by Crackingham
Former prisoner of war Jessica Lynch, whose capture and rescue in the early days of the Iraq war turned her into a US icon, said in an interview that the US government had used her as an upbeat symbol in the conflict.
"I think I provided a way to boost everybody's confidence about the war," Lynch told Time magazine.
"I was used as a symbol. They could show the war was going great because 'we rescued this person.' It doesn't bother me anymore. It used to," she said.
Yeah? Did it bother you more than almost losing your life to the enemy?
I don't recall anyone even talking about her in two years.
Jessica Lynch - STFU.
Bothers me that this chick is still trying to milk it two years later...did she ever meet the guy who rescued her or did she keep blowin him off...your 15 is over...you did your job and we are grateful and the army did get carried away and blow it up but dont pretend to be outraged to keep your name in papers...you aint paris hilton are ya?
Anything for pub i guess
Yea it bothers her that the army blew her up but not enough to keep from taking the $$ that comes with it
I hope she can make a full recovery from her injuries. Thanks, for serving with honor, PFC Lynch.
I have two probelms with this. The first is I think it was yesterday that said Jessica was looking forward to the start of school at West Virginia University in Morgantown and was hoping for being annonymous because she wants to fade into background. Now, it seems she wants to put herself back in front of the press to demean the war and the Bush administration. Go to school kid, shut up and be grateful that people were willing to risk thier lives to save your very sorry butt.
The fact that it once bothered her makes me question her intelligence. Look at real heroes from other wars (i.e., Audie Murphy, Sgt. York, etc.), they were most certainly used as a war symbol to boost the morale of the troops. People underestimate how important morale is to winning a war.
Yeah? Did it bother you more than almost losing your life to the enemy?
Probably, it did.
Everyone should give her a break. There's a lot of guilt that goes along with simply surviving when many of your friends did not.
Pile on to that the magnification of her survival and rescue by the media, and all the follow-up controversy, and you get one big monkey on your back.
It is Time Magazine for crying out loud....here is the exchange:
Q. LOOKING BACK, DO YOU FEEL YOU WERE USED BY THE MILITARY TO INCREASE AMERICAN SUPPORT FOR THE WAR IN ITS EARLY STAGES?
A. I think I provided a way to boost everybody's confidence about the war. I was used as a symbol. They could show the war was going great because "we rescued this person." It doesn't bother me anymore. It used to. Through my book [I Am a Soldier, Too: The Jessica Lynch Story, written by Rick Bragg], I have been able to set the record straight. I did what I could do and now let the record speak for itself.
Sure she was used, but not by the US government to gain support for the war.
I really cannot understand these type of people. Was she not in an Iraqi hospital, injured? Did not an Iraqi risk his life and that of his family to walk back and forth to let US forces know of her whereabouts and condition? The same man she refused to meet when he came to the states? Would it be safe to assume if she was never rescued she would be dead today? Yet, here she is - alive, able to walk, a full-paid scholarship, plus other bennies from the military. And she spits on it! I remember reading horror stories where the suthor states when people are confronted with unimaginable horror, the mind reels. That's how I feel trying to understand these people. What will ever satisfy them? Man, if I was ever in dire straights like she was and was rescued, I would make damn sure those guys would be thanked by me on a yearly basis, someway, somehow.
Sweetie .. you weren't the only one fighting in this war
And you sure didn't have a problem selling your book for publicity
And for that she should be relieved. :-)
You mean the Army got a possitive story out in the media among all the overblown bad stories?
Oh, how horrible.
I bet it really bothered the AP that there was so much interest from the public that they had to cover this, and they've been trying to discredit the story as much as possible since it caught the public eye.
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