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Ok. So, this is all an elaborate scheme by the U.S. government, including the President, the Pentagon, the Army, etc..

Pvt. Lynch, the Pentagon and the Army would (rightly) expect you to fight to the death, so there is no reason for them to think that you wouldn't do that. It doesn't matter that you are in vehicle maintenance or not...you're a solider. Now, initial reports are often (usually) wrong and those doing the briefing that Sunday morning explained that they didn't know all the details. Perhaps someone in the command chain wanted you to have dignity as a soldier (i.e., figthing their heart out)? This wouldn't be some scheme of the Pentagon. This would be one soldier wanted another soldier be portrayed in a dignified light.

I don't see anything wrong with that. Now, that shouldn't (and isn't) the ultimate conclusion of the story.

If Pvt. Lynch says that he weapon jammed, I am sure that the Pentagon believes her. We know that they debriefed her and the official record would reflect her account of the last moments before her capture, including her M-16 jamming.

That initial reports are wrong and those stories reported seem more "romantic" than what actually happened, shouldn't be a surprise to anyone. Half of the stories about historical events in the "Old West" are WAY over glorified and over dramatized.

Everyone knows about the so-called "Fog of War", which explains PRECISELY why her rescue was filmed. Too many would question what the rescuers did and how it went down.

Was the rescue a really "hot" extraction? Not particularly.

Was it fairly documentary in nature? Yes, in military terms...inlcuding the "Matrix" green nightvision effect.

Was it dramatic? Of course, Pvt Lynch. Many Americans had been praying for your safe return and being able to see your relatively mundane extraction was quite dramatic.

Did the Pentagon use this for some proganda purposes? I don't think so at all. Americans got what they wanted: their prayers answered for a soldier's return. The fact that they got to see it happen was captivating, but the real benefit was that you were coming home.

So, perhaps, you can keep your comments to yourself about "being used".

Doesn't seem to me that the President, Don Rumsfeld, or General Meyers is being paid for the Jessica Lynch story. Are they?

Good synopsis. Let's remember that the media, reacting to public thirst, blew this story up to giant status. It became a megastory.

As a citizen, I'm often disgusted with megastories, they suck up all the oxygen and the hundred other good stories go ignored.

The networks pounded this story hard, thinking it was the only PC way to support the war. Save Girl sounds better the the left than Win War.

Win War works for me, but the only decent reporting on the war was on FoxNews or here at FR.

One more reason the networks are irrelevant.

"Ok. So, this is all an elaborate scheme by the U.S. government, including the President, the Pentagon, the Army, etc.."

She should be grateful that she's alive so she can vote for Senator Byrd.

/sarcasm