Jessica: Army used me

NY Daily News ^ | November 7, 2003 | CORKY SIEMASZKO

[honeygrl]

"I'm outta here. "

Going back to DU?

[colorado tanker]

I've always defended this girl, who went through hell. But if she starts dissing the Army, after rescuing her, giving her the best medical care available and affording her the opportunity to cut a sweet book deal, I'll be very disappointed in her.

[JudgemAll]

Raped women often seldom distance themselves from the act of rape and blame the saviors.

[#3Fan]

PFC Lynch wasn't responsible for the overall screwup. She does have a sarg for a fiance(husband?) and lots of military friends. She should at least speak w/o trashing, or allowing the military to be trashed by such leftist enemies. IOWs, even though she's ~20, she should think first before opening her mouth

If you're over 20, then you should realize that this is a liberal trashing of Lynch and the military and treat as the propaganda it is. Read the article again and tell me where she was angry. There's no anger in what she said, she is simply saying the story was wrong .

[WackyKat]

Personal integrity is more important to her than everything else, this is what makes her an awesome young gal in this generation of greed and selfishness.

That's right. The people who are upset that she's not lying should be ashamed of themselves.

[mass55th]

"Face the facts, the Pentagon had the film rolling and the special effects sparkling..."

The video released to the press of her rescue was not complete, just brief highlights. I don't recall seeing any video of the operation from start to finish. Missing is their entrance into the building, their initial finding of Lynch, getting her on the stretcher, etc. The part that was shown on the news channels was a small segment of what actually occurred. I think she'd have more of a complaint if the Army had released the total recovery of her. I think she's whining unnecessarily.

[Lost Highway]

I'm outta here.

Not much of a Crusader.

[Coop]

It amazes me that all her bashers have been screaming for her to deny the story and say she isn't a hero since April, and when she finally does that, they accuse her of speaking against the military! You're right, their only purpose is to bash her. I think because they feel threatened by what she has sacrificed for her country.

Unless you work as a creative writer, you missed your calling.

[#3Fan]

The title of this article is a lie. She never said the Army used her and that's it. They made it sound worse than it was.

[Ben Bolt]

Bump for Ltc. A. West !

[hattend]

The weapon didn't jam if she never fired it.

I was going to say that. The safety was probably on.

[Coop]

Oh please. She was led into that by a liberal reporter, Diane Sawyer, on the most liberal network there is, ABC. There's no doubt they're doing everything they can to put down Lynch and the Army. They're covering for the Washington Post.

I have no doubt they're slanting things. But unless you can show me they fabricated her quote...

[Only1choice____Freedom]

She's an adult in the Army and M16/4s aren't some new gizmo with quirks.

She went through basic, she knows how to operate a weapon. She was also in a LOT of pain and her friends are dead. There are a lot of reasons why her weapon wouldn't work. Proper care is just one of them. Ignorance is not. All of them should have had their weapons ready after the convoy got seperated. What we really should be looking at is why that happened. That's what doomed these troops.

[mass55th]

"Such an ungrateful idiot."

It will be interesting to see just how factual the network movie about her will be. Let's see if she complains about being used by them when it's over. I'm still trying to figure out how someone who isn't supposed to have any memory of what happened to her writes a book or has a movie made about them.

[presidio9]

Raped women often seldom distance themselves from the act of rape and blame the saviors.

Huh?

[OldCorps]

I don't think the army used Jessica Lynch. Certainly the military feminist lobby subgroup of the army used her, and they have a lot of free access to the media. I suspect this issue of Lynch and the feminazis in DoD is the cause of SecDef's public affairs butch 'spokesperson' (whatever her name was) resigning.

Other thoughts on the irony of war.

1. Lynch is probably alive because her weaponed jammed. During a firefight, the natural tendency is to kill everything shooting back at you. No doubt that is what the Iraqis did.

2. No excuse for her weapon jamming. None. How many times in your life do you cross into enemy territory during a war? Having weapons lock and loaded and ready to fire is the first thing any soldier would ensure he was capable of doing upon crossing the LD.

[#3Fan]

I think she's whining unnecessarily.

Saying the story is wrong is whining?

[cookcounty]

"the Pentagon ?

how about the "news" media?"

Yes. Will SOMEBODY puh-leeze get this story straight. Can ANYBODY find a PENTAGON released story that described her as a female Rambo? Now the lying media has Jessica believing this tripe.

[HairOfTheDog]

Read it please.... Her rescuers are her heroes. She just isn't sure why she was put on a pedestal by the brass instead of them. This is a humble response.

I propose, when we read the book, she spends far more lines wondering and perhaps being a bit taken back at the media spectacle that surrounded her. The media won't report that part.

[#3Fan]

Unless you work as a creative writer, you missed your calling.

Better than someone who believes liberal propaganda like you.