>I get so tired of this "I didn't join the army to be a >soldier" talk.
Before I realized the difference between 'liberal' and conservative', I remember reading a Jessica Lynch headline of "She only wanted to go to college". So you get a freaking JOB!! And one that doesn't put you in combat!! I don't get it. In what country do you join the military and not assume you might have to actually BE in the military?
Did you ever hear her say that or was that just addlebrained relatives or a reporter's wishful thinking- like Jayson Blair's? He is the guy who fabricated Lynch stories from thin air after all- the NY Times was embarassed enough they booted him off the team. I suspect that was all reporter's wishful thinking- not the Dan Rather agitprop company, CBS, was the one that tried to get her to OK a movie deal and the like and it seems I recall them saying they were thinking of doing 'her story' whether or not she gave them approval, most likely because she was sickened by all the coverage and fake sympathy from the press herself.