Book: Lynch Struggled With Iraqi Doctors

http://start.earthlink.net ^ | November 8, 2003 09:39 PM EST | Entertainment News

[Numbers Guy]

she accused the military of using her capture and rescue to sway public support for the war in Iraq.

How grateful. They saved her and she resents it.

[freebilly]

Some hero....

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

Some hero....

$um hero

[mylife]

In an ABC interview to air Tuesday, she accused the military of using her capture and rescue to sway public support for the war in Iraq.

The poor girl doesnt realize that it was the media that used her not the military. She seems to forget who she gave allegiance to.

[freebilly]

Brilliant!

[WackyKat]

The poor girl doesnt realize that it was the media that used her not the military

And who do you think was feeding the information about the incident to the media through off the record sources for their own propaganda purposes?

I'll give you a hint-they salute each other a lot.

[Prodigal Son]

Wow, did she really say that? I had thought she had expressed gratitude for her rescue? She actually said she resents being rescued? Hmmmm... Odd that.

[BlackVeil]

Lynch heard later that doctors tried to cut off her leg to transport her to Baghdad, although Bragg wrote that she doesn't know whether that report was true.

Is any story about Jessica Lynch ever true?

Does anyone find that a rather funny turn of phrase - cut off her leg to send her to Baghdad.

Is anyone allowed to go to Baghdad with two legs?

[Skwidd]

I'm tired of Jessica Lynch. Next!

[Consort]

Leave her alone.

[WackyKat]

She actually said she resents being rescued? Hmmmm... Odd that.

She did not say that.

She expressed a dislike of the way lies were told about the incident for propaganda purposes.

Some people on this forum are now attacking her because she is honest and naive enough to still care about the truth.

[rusty millet]

I've been reading this over the past few days also. Also quotes along the lines of (IIRC) the rescuers did not need to storm the hospital to rescue her, etc.

What in the world is going on here? This woman has become a pawn of the insurgent media.

God help us. A captured soldier turns on her rescuers. Stockholm syndrome?

[mylife]

And who do you think was feeding the information about the incident to the media through off the record sources for their own propaganda purposes? I'll give you a hint-they salute each other a lot.

I know damn well that the military gave tons of video to the media and that they culled through it first, and who do you suppose culled through it last?

I'll give ya a hint you usually only see thier heads.

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

Do you paste that, or type it each time? : )

[Consort]

Typed each time.

[Azzurri]

You and me both. If I never hear from or about Jessica Lynch again, it will be too soon.

[armyboy]

I am shocked that Lynch is getting so much press time for becoming a POW. There were thousands of POW's in previous wars that didn't get much (if any) recognition from the media. And I'm appauled that there is going to be a book and a movie about her situation. All she did was get captured and rescued, and now she is resentful toward her rescuers. I'm sick of hearing about her. She is no hero, she was just a soldier in the wrong place at the wrong time.

[jaykay]

Come on now folks, don't we know better than to take a report from the media as fact without checking for bs, spin, bias, distortion, disinfo and all the other toppings they put on? I did a little double checking to see what Lynch's exact quotes were, and it's easy to see how the article posted here selects certain quotes and uses them out of context.

Responding to questions that the military may have exaggerated the danger of her nighttime rescue from a Nasiriya hospital by U.S. commandos, she said, "Yeah, I don't think it happened quite like that."

However, she also said that anyone "in that kind of situation would obviously go in with force, not knowing who was on the other side of the door."

Ex-POW calls rescuers 'heroes'
Lynch, 20, a former private first class from Palestine, West Virginia, who has since left the Army, said the way the military publicized her rescue also bothers her, including the filming of it.
"It does [bother me] that they used me as a way to symbolize all this stuff," she said. "It's wrong.
"I don't know why they filmed it, or why they say the things they [say], you know. ... All I know was that I was in that hospital hurting. ... I needed help. I wanted out of there. It didn't matter to me if they would have come in shirts and blank guns; it wouldn't have mattered to me. I wanted out of there."

But Lynch said she considers her rescuers "my heroes." "I'm so thankful that they did what they did. They risked their lives."