Your right, I say we just shoot em right between the eyes and be done with it.
Posted on 04/03/2003 1:34:43 AM PST by kattracks
Tip from Iraqi led to hospital roomJessica was being tortured.
That was the urgent word from an Iraqi man who alerted U.S. troops where to find Pfc. Jessica Lynch - and her injuries seem to bear out the allegation.
Lynch, who was flown to a military hospital in Germany yesterday, had her legs broken, one arm broken and at least one bullet wound, officials said.
The 19-year-old West Virginia private was able to call her parents yesterday for the first time since her rescue Tuesday. She was in good spirits but very hungry, her parents told CNN.
The rescue of Lynch, who was driving a water truck when she went missing after a March 23 ambush in Nassiriya, had added urgency when one of two tips to Americans said she was in danger.
One tip came when an English-speaking Iraqi man approached NBC reporter Kerry Sanders to tell him about the soldier being held captive.
"Please make sure the people in charge know that she's being tortured," he told Sanders.
Belying her country-girl smile and petite 5-foot-5 frame, Lynch put up a Rambo-worthy fight when her unit, the Army's 507th Ordnance Maintenance Co., came under attack, according to a new report.
Lynch opened fire on the Iraqi assailants, picking them off one by one until she ran out of ammunition, according to today's Washington Post.
She continued shooting - even after she was shot and stabbed and her unit members were killed all around her.
"She was fighting to the death," a U.S. official told The Post. "She did not want to be taken alive."
Yesterday, when Lynch was plucked from Saddam Hospital, Special Forces troops found a soldier in pain.
Her broken bones are a sure sign of torture, said Amy Waters Yarsinske, an ex-Navy intelligence officer and an expert on POW treatment.
"It's awfully hard to break both legs and an arm in a truck accident," Yarsinske said.
Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's thugs are known to use steel bars to bash their prisoners' limbs, she said.
"In the first gulf action, they tried breaking their [captured U.S. airmen's] legs with steel bars," Yarsinske said.
Another clue that Lynch and other POWs were being tortured came Friday, when Marines raided a hospital near Nassiriya where other members of Lynch's unit were videotaped and later shown on Iraqi TV. Marines found at least one shredded woman's uniform spattered with blood and the name patch torn off. In addition to Lynch, two other female soldiers went missing after the ambush.
In one hospital room, Marines discovered a car battery next to a bed - a possible electrical shock torture chamber.
During the last Persian Gulf War, Iraqis attached wires to one American POW's jaw and shocked him, Yarsinske said.
An Iraqi pharmacist who works at Saddam Hospital told Britain's Sky TV he treated Lynch's leg injuries. He added: "Every day I saw her crying about wanting to go home."
The pharmacist, who gave his name only as Imad, said Lynch knew U.S. troops were on the other side of the Euphrates River, and "kept wondering if the American Army were coming to save her."
Lynch's hometown of Palestine, W.Va., continued its celebration of her recovery yesterday.
Her brother, Gregory Jr., who is also in the Army, told CNN his sister sounded "disoriented" when she phoned home. "Her voice was crackly and low. She sounded like she was sick."
West Virginia Gov. Bob Wise stopped by the Lynch's home yesterday and told her parents that their daughter, who had joined the Army to pay for college so she could become a kindergarten teacher, would not have to worry about tuition.
"There will be a full scholarship for her whenever she wants to go for college," he promised.
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I think it's a fair question. Militant pro-lifers...Can you even imagine? I cannot...Men brag about impregnating...How could anyone ask a possible victim like Jessica to endure such degradation and humiliation, even in the name of so-called "innocent unborn"?...But for the militant pro-lifers, I think you already know the answer they would give-- Jessica would have to carry the monster's baby to term and deliver it. And live the rest of her life possibly feeling she did an honor to that thug who brutalized her...
Where did you come from, newbie? The girl's from WV and from I've seen she and her family are strong Christians. She and they may be what you call "militant pro-lifers." Whenever a rape victim (and we don't know that she is) decides to keep her "so-called innocent unborn" child (as you say), it is a victory for decency and humanity, not for the rapist. If you can't understand that, you're a twisted troll.
The sin done to this girl doesn't justify the sin of abortion committed against the innocent child.
I would blame the culture, the abortion propaganda and the medical people more than the girl who might choose an abortion.
The vast majority of military doctors will not perform abortions.
Your right, I say we just shoot em right between the eyes and be done with it.
Kofi is too busy working his day job as Head Attendent Of the Mens Room at the U.N. Building!
The left will ignore this completely. It will never make so much as one mainstream leftist publication, and not one major TV news broadcast. If anyone picks it up,l it will be Fox News.
But then the leftists are expert when it comes to ignoring the obvious especially when it conflicts with their hate-America agenda.
Could we at least make an exception for Helen Thomas?
Seriously, there are circumstances in which I feel torture is justified. It is certainly justified to get info that a nuclear device is planted in NY and the clock is ticking.
I see her as a
young Meg Ryan. With her luck,
it's Tori Spelling...
The Nazis had no monopoly on unbelievable, subhuman brutality. In fact, Nazi treatment of POWs (as opposed to "untermensch" civilians rounded up for the "final solution") was relatively tame. Partucularly compared to the treatment meted out by the Japanese, North Koreans, and North Vietnamese. I'm not "defending" the Nazis, here, just making sure the Communists and non-ideological thugs get the credit they deserve.
I can understand perfectly why Jessica would put up the fight that she did---the thought of being taken alive by evil, filthy Iraqui scumbags is a powerful motivator.
God bless this brave young woman!!!! A 5'5" water truck driver, she fought like a true warrior: until she had no more bullets left, and then she fought with her fists, I'm sure.
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