Posted on 11/07/2003 7:31:52 AM PST by presidio9
With all due respect and gratitude for your service, PFC Lynch, shut the h*$% up!
So, in your opinion, it's ok for the Government to lie to it's citizens as long as someone benefits financially.
She is a survivor of a nightmare. Then she comes back to the USA to be confronted with bizzarro world Media accounts.
I think this is whole thing is sad.
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Dissing that Iraqi was unforgivable...fact is, the "doctors" weren't able to communicate with coalition forces, and that Iraqi guy had to earn the trust of the Americans by returning repeatedly to the hospital to gather intel.
Got to cut her some slack, though...the pain and all.
But, still...
Sawyer and the other America-hating lefties are perhaps twisting Jessica's words against her, selectively editing what she says and taking statements out of context. I think this quote shows that.
When you are a soldier, privacy isn't an issue. The U.S. government has a responsibility to capture indcidents on the battlefield accurately. There are teams of military personnel that are charged with deciphering what happened on the battlefield and this certainly (maybe most especially) extends to the rescue of a soldier. The film provided as precise a record of the rescue as possible..
Also, you said that her back was broken at the wreck, but Private Lynch admits that she tried to fire her M-16 but it jammed. If she did try to fight with a broken back, wouldn't that be, at least, valiant?
Is it Rambo? No, but it would certainly explain why the initial reports had her fighting valiantly. One, because it is what a soldier does and, two, she did try to fight, but her weapon jammed.
Very interesting opinion you've assigned to me, considering my comment was directed at her "using me" statement.
Let's just look at some of the facts. Lynch is a teenage girl who joins the Army so she can take advantage of the GI Bill and get some schooling later on. She gets sent to the front of the Iraq war and gets all torn up in an accident, and then gets captured by the smelly camel-jocky barbarians and raped. They treat her severe injuries in a "hospital" that couldn't pass for a skid row outhouse in America. She has shattered bones and injuries that put her in excruciating pain and will leave her partially disabled for life.
The real heros, (Special Forces and Marines), show up and rescue her.
Now she lies on a hospital bed in Germany, still in a stupor. Meanwhile, certain powers and forces back home want to use her for their own personal gain. The feminists want to make into an American icon, a female "David" who slayed the Iraqi "Goliath". The liberal media want to use her for essentially the same purposes, and to sell newspapers. ALL the media, including conservative t.v. networks like FOX, invade her hometown neighborhood and set up a three ring circus of cameras, lights, microphones and talking heads to try get an interview with her family. All the while she lays in a hospital bed in Germany slowly recovering from the severe physical and emotional trauma she had been subjected to. An Army spokesman reveals that Jessica cannot remember much of the trauma, and that it will be weeks before she can even get up and try to walk around.
Months later Jessica finally heals enough to walk and talk and answer questions by the newshounds and those with a personal agenda. She has the chance of a lifetime to become a national hero, (and rich), if she just plays their game. But Jessica also knows that she is being used as a political football, a "thing", by all sides, for their own gain. She's still just a kid, mind you, trying to make sense of it all, trying to decide what to do. Here is where she becomes a hero in my mind. She decides not to play the game of Wonder Woman and reveals that she never even fired her weapon. She admits that her rescuers were the real heros of this story. She doesn't want ANYONE, not the media, not the feminists, not even the Army to say or indicate things that would maker her out to be a hero. She just wants to be Jessica Lynch, a cute little blonde girl from W. Virginia. She wants to get on with her life and get back to normal. She knows this will never happen. Thank you, Jessica Lynch for your service and for being so honest and humble. I am sorry that people on all sides of this story want to use for their personal gain, or to trash you for not being what they want you to be, and for not saying what they want you to say. You are indeed brave, and you are in my prayers.
And what does that have to do with quotes by her and excerpts from her book? Sometimes the messenger doesn't matter. Like now.
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No it's not their job to read every news story. However, this was not some remote obscure story. It is a well known story, shown on television through night scope. You would have to be hiding under a rock not to know it.
It made for good PR and the military let it stand.
This story was also used on Fox frequently. They are just as complicit.
and people are drawing conclusions from it as if it were gospel.
However, in her effort to deflect the praise of being a hero, she necessarily made it out like the Pentagon had some elaborate plan to "use" her and her rescue.
And that's just wrong for her to do.
In fact, one could argue that her statements about not knowing "why they would film [the rescue]" gives an impression that they didn't need to film the rescue. The comments suggests somehow that the rescue was "staged" (or some other word that denigrates what those Special Forces and Marines did).
That is an insult to those brave men that rescued her.
[Aside: Think about who she means when she says "they". She isn't talking about her rescuers, she is referring to the Pentagon and military commanders, etc.]
That's why I suggested in this post that she keep her comments to herself. If she wants to be humble and deflect praise, fine. But, don't deflect that praise at someone else's expense.
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