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I watched or listened to every early morning press briefing from Doha by that extremely professional General Briggs. He never said anything even close to this Washington Post story.

I also agree that Pvt. Lynch is a class act and she is very lucky to be alive, and I'm glad she is telling the truth, but I never heard a single military spokesman ever describe her capture as a wild firefight or a scene from a Rambo movie. The Press blew this out of proportion and they should take the blame, not Jessica Lynch nor the Military

You're right, the military briefers played the story straight, I'm sure it was some political appointee who leaked (or rather made up) the Rambo story.

I'm glad that Pvt. Lynch had the choice of whether to reveal the rape details instead of having it released by the military. God bless her, I hope she's able to walk down the aisle withouth those crutches.

I never heard a single military spokesman ever describe her capture as a wild firefight or a scene from a Rambo movie

Me neither. And that's because no military spokesman ever did.

IIRC, it was the WaPo that published the first hyped-up piece on Lynch, and it was based on their "sources."

I watched or listened to every early morning press briefing from Doha by that extremely professional General Briggs. He never said anything even close to this Washington Post story.

I also agree that Pvt. Lynch is a class act and she is very lucky to be alive, and I'm glad she is telling the truth, but I never heard a single military spokesman ever describe her capture as a wild firefight or a scene from a Rambo movie. The Press blew this out of proportion and they should take the blame, not Jessica Lynch nor the Military.

I agree... I never heard any military spokesman describe her capture as a wild shootout, like something out of Rambo. It sure seems to me that the MEDIA was responsible for these fabrications of her rescue. Yet look what Drudge is highlighting across the top of his page right now as I type this...

Jessica Lynch criticized military for exaggerating accounts of her rescue and recasting her ordeal as patriotic fable.... MORE.. Asked by ABCNEWS anchor Diane Sawyer if military's portrayal of rescue bothered her, Lynch said: 'Yeah, it does. It does that they used me as a way to symbolize all this stuff. Yeah, it's wrong' ... Asked how she felt about reports of her heroism: 'It hurt in a way that people would make up stories that they had no truth about. Only I would have been able to know that, because the other four people on my vehicle aren't here to tell the story. So I would have been the only one able to say, Yeah, I went down shooting. But I didn't' ... Asked about claims the military exaggerated danger of the rescue mission: 'Yeah, I don't think it happened quite like that'...