Ex-Hostage Jill Carroll Arrives in U.S.

Associated Press ^ | 4/2/06 | GLEN JOHNSON

[TexKat]

[avital2]

i'm anxious to see if the press hounds "its own" as much as it hounds the rest of us to get a story.

[CindyDawg]

Jill who? (shrug)

[martin_fierro]

McCain was in 'Nam? Who knew.

[Dog Gone]

I want them to leave her alone for awhile. The truth and her real opinions can wait. We'll find out soon enough.

[Maceman]

She has stated that her video remarks were coerced, and she has now publicly retracted everything those thugs made her say.

[Radix]

It will be interesting to hear what she really thinks after she has a chance to catch her breath.

They killed her translator and kept her in bondage for weeks. It is hard to believe that she would have sympathy for such vermin. We'll see.

[rhombus]

We'll find out soon enough.

Yes we will. Many conservatives start out as liberals who were mugged. Ms. Caroll has most certainly been mugged. Her capacity to learn from her experiences will be tested in the next few weeks/months.

[Allegra]

McCain was in 'Nam? Who knew.

I've heard John Kerry was, too.

Has anybody else heard that?

[cripplecreek]

I'm starting to believe her. After all, the statement she made immediately after her release was in the islamic or Sunni part headquarters. I suspect that I wouldn't be very trusting there either.

[Polybius]

The remarks have drawn criticism from conservative bloggers and commentators, but the Monitor said "Carroll did what many hostage experts and past captives would have urged her to do: Give the men who held the power of life and death over her what they wanted."

Hey, Associated Press, I went to the EXTREME to defend her. ;-)

If these guys were threatening to saw my head off, I would admit on camera to having sex with Helen Thomas...........33 posted on 03/31/2006 10:46:12 AM PST by Polybius

[Past Your Eyes]

Really? John Kerry? Did anything unusual happen to him while he was there? You don't mean Bob Kerrey, do you?

[digger48]

If these guys were threatening to saw my head off, I would admit on camera to having sex with Helen Thomas...........33 posted on 03/31/2006 10:46:12 AM PST by Polybius

Admitting on tape is one thing, but I bet if the threat was made that you actually had to do it, you'd probably be begging to start the sawing yourself

[Allegra]

Really? John Kerry? Did anything unusual happen to him while he was there?

I think he got a paper cut and they awarded him three Purple Hearts or something like that. It's all kind of fuzzy...

[BlueStateDepression]

I would offer that after a time to absorb her experience she should address the media in a serious way to establish exactly what her positions are. This is not accomplished in full by an interview of five muntes with Matt aluer either!

This gal could be a valuable asset in turning the tide of the left. She can be a 'posterchild' for how wrong ( at least how selective) she really was with the attitude she took into Iraq and how right she is after being truthful about what happened to her before she left Iraq.

[skimask]

Why can't the muzzies kidnap Helen Thomas. But on second thought if they kidnapped her, the muzzies would pay the U.S. to take her back.

[johnny7]

I saw her do the Burka-speech a hundred times on the MSM... I haven't yet SEEN her speech saying that it was made under duress on the MSM.

Is that just me... or is that how others see it?

[Revolting cat!]

Leave her alone. She's got offers from Playboy and Penthouse to consider, conflicting TV appearance schedules, ghostwriter to pick for a quickie tell-all memoir, and an honest accountant to find to manage all that moolah rolling in. (Don't ask Leonard Cohen for advice on the last one.) Jill darling, you've Reebok on the line!

Ah, notoriety, that is the essence of the American Dream! Limos and police escorts, while the wounded Americans arriving on the same flight get shunned.

[mtbopfuyn]

Hmm, there were too many questions in these three months that I'm not buying anything she saying now.

[Allegra]

Why can't the muzzies kidnap Helen Thomas. But on second thought if they kidnapped her, the muzzies would pay the U.S. to take her back.

Wait. There just may be a strategy here. We could end this war.

let me get Rummy on the phone...