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
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.
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
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.
On March 24, 2003, the front page of The New York Post had a full-page photo of a pile of dead bodies in a room accompanied by a tattered, swarthy man who was smiling like a clown for the camera.
The caption said "Savages: Iraqi fiends execute American POW's".
Here we go again! "I'm a victim!" (Whine) "I was used!" (Snivel!) The army is better now that she is not in uniform.
And based on what I have read, this old soldier submits that the incident in Iraq would not have happened if the leadership in the unit had known how to read a map.
There's also the matter of another basic soldier skill: keeping your weapon clean so that it won't jam when you need it. I don't recall hearing stories of the weapons of soldiers in other units jamming at a critical moment, even in the sandstorm that occurred. Why? Because instead of smoking and joking in the rear, good soldiers spend their time maintaining their individual and crew-served weapons, and good leaders frequently inspect the weapons to make sure they are maintained.
Sounds more like Time was trying to create the anti-military headling than Jessica Lynch. It was a very leading question.
Jessica, dear. Go get a job.
Her analysis is wrong, or at best, imcomplete.
Jessica served as only the first example of what
was to become characteristic of how our soldiers were
portrayed: the only "heroes" were hapless victims, like her. It was primarily the MSM that created this slant, but
CentCom didn't seem too eager to correct it. I think she was personally insulted by the media's picture of her as fighting off the enemy right up to her very last bullet, when she knew she did no such thing.
The U.S. Army awarded her the Bronze Star for distinguishing herself by heroic or meritorious achievement or service conisting of this:
1. Caught in ambush.
2. Some of her injuries were a result of the Humvee crash she was riding in.
3. Her weapon jammed because she failed to clean it.
4. With jammed weapon and still in the back of the vehicle, according to her, "...I lowered my head down to my knees, and I closed my eyes..." (while 11 in her group were killed during the firefight).
That's heroic or meritorious achievement or service?
To me this smacks of what is going wrong in our country. Dumbing down everything: Heroes, education, etc.. When the Lynch issue came out, I felt this was nothing but trying to make Lynch a Joan (John) Wayne-type. Sure enough! The truth came out. A Marine combat veteran in Iraq put it this way:
If Lynch deserves a Bronze Star (which she doesn't), then they (those engaged in daily combat) deserve a Medal of Honor. Lynch got a Bronze Star as a publicity stunt for the Army. She got it because she is a woman. It's just that simple. If she had been a man, no one would've cared. It is sad to see that in today's world of equality, in the 21st Century, such a thing would happen. Lynch is nothing but a publicity doll for the Army and an embarrassment to the United States military and the true heroes of our nation.
Other input:
She will now become the icon, the symbol of everything the radical feminists desire in completely 'feminizing' the U.S. military. They have their woman-in-combat heroine who will pave the way for some woman, sometime, to become the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - or maybe even the Commander in Chief. All for personal gain. All for the exercise of matriarchal political power in America. And all contributing to the reality of the deterioration of combat effectiveness, the loss of the 'warrior ethos' in our armed forces and, most importantly, a degradation of America's ability to defend itself when faced with an opponent other than a Third-World country.
Further reading: The Mythical Modern American War Hero.
Fair enough Jessica. You claim you are no hero and used as a symbol.
Then be a hero and return your Bronze Star!!.
Poor Jessica doesn't realize it was the media who used her not the US military. What a ditz.