I remember being 19 years old, and if you think I don't know anything now, you should have seen me then. Perhaps you remember being 19 too.
What do people expect from a teenage girl who was suddenly placed into combat, saw all her friends die, and suffered a devastating accident that broke her legs, ankles and injured her spinal cord? As if that's not enough she was anally raped by Islamic pigs and dumped into a dungeon "hospital" with no medicine or real doctors to treat her. She lie there hungry, thirsty, raped, broken and bleeding for days, praying and calling out to God for help. She then returns home to find out that everyone and their grandmother were hyping and embellishing her story in an attempt to USE her for their own political or financial gain. This gal feels used and abused, and who the h-ll can blame her?
Lastly, let's not forget that she was sold up the river by the feminists who told her that a girl can be a strong soldier and is equal to men on the battlefield. There is not one conceivable way in which this young gal was not raped by somebody. Jessica Lynch's real story is that WE ALL used her. She was used by feminists to prove that females can be good soldiers, she was used by conservatives to prove that females should not be soldiers. She was used by the news media to sell newspapers and T.V. air time, and she was used by the Pentagon to help further the war effort. She was left behind by the main convoy, and was anally raped by her pig-faced Iraqi captors. She is still suffering from her severe wounds, and from memory loss. And none-the-less she has maintained enough courage and integrity to tell them all to go pound sand up their arses. What is there to not like about this gal?
Maybe that she complains about being used by going on a primetime tv special and hawking her book. It would ring a little more true if she were not using the situation to sell books.
Well, there is a bit of hyperbole in your statements ("everyone and their grandmother" is a little sweeping, eh?), but I understand your premise. However I think that of all of the parties involved the Army and the Pentagon has "used" her the least.
As I said, the Army never provided a "Rambo"-like account. When asked if that was a possibility that Pvt. Lynch resisted her captors (insinuating the "Rambo" angle), the Army briefer responded that all soldiers are taught to fight regardless of their assigned task. That the possibility that the soldier received injures during combat was likely, but they couldn't verify that's what happened because they didn't have all of the facts.
That isn't confirming or denying the overdramatized "Rambo" angle that the press was bringing to the story about the initial capture. Now, I suppose that you can say they let the reporters romantic notions about combat stand, but as has been pointed out several times on this thread, that isn't the Army's fault. In fact, B. Gen. Vicent Brooks was very forthright with the media in his briefings. If you read the transcripts of these events, you will see that the media was pushing the "hero" angle alot more than the Army.
she was used by the Pentagon to help further the war effort
Sorry, not buying. Frankly, that statement is absurd. Yes, the war effort would have been stopped dead in its tracks hadn't Pvt. Lynch been rescued. Pardon me if I dismiss that comment outright.
Again, was this good news? Yes. I would think that anytime a soldier has suffered and is returning home, we are allowed to consider that good news...even people in the Pentagon. To express joy and elation would (and should) be expected. You will notice, however, that during those briefings, while noticably pleased, the briefers will still all business.
Again, if the Pentagon did something wrong about being joyful and even saying so (which they really didn't) at the return of Pvt. Lynch, then I never want them to be right. No soldier ever wants to leave anyone behind and those soldiers --even the ones wearing stars on their shoulders-- were right to be joyous.
Your statements are right on about the feminazis, the media, and, to some degree, certain conservatives, but the Pentagon, in my opinion, is the least guilty of "using" Pvt. Lynch.