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Even if she did all that is claimed, she would only be a soldier, not a hero.

(Don't get me wrong, I'm glad we're kickin' major Iraqi ass and I'm pleased Pfc. Lynch is now safe... HOWEVER...< sarcasm mode on >) How dare you suggest that Pfc. Lynch is just a regular soldier ! Give the newspapers a couple of more weeks. Why, we'll be reading how Pfc. Lynch singlehandedly took out an Iraqi machinegun nest armed only with a penknife ! Don't you know that when it suits us, we should actually believe what the Washington comPost prints ?
After all, the Washington comPost has never lied to us before and what possible agenda could the orginator of this story about Lynch have other than motives pure as Christmas snow ?
You'd better don your asbestos longjohns. The ~~ballbusting~~ feminists on FR will be out for blood if anyone asks questions about this rescue such as, Why was an entire Marine battalion used as a decoy aling with an entire Navy SEAL team and an entire Army CAG team used to rescue one Pfc female POW. And should we expect the same resources to be used for say the black woman who is now a POW ? And if not, why not ? And should we expect the same expenditure of resources for a male POW who is a Pfc ?

"Why was an entire Marine battalion used as a decoy aling with an entire Navy SEAL team and an entire Army CAG team used to rescue one Pfc female POW. And should we expect the same resources to be used for say the black woman who is now a POW ? "

Because we take care of our own, pyx. When it was discovered that an American POW was alive and where she was located, we went in and got her. If we find out where the others are located, we will no doubt go in and get them as well.

Since you were not there, you do not know what happened. Yet you seem perfectly willing to make assumptions, and to let us know that you're not going to believe anything you hear about this soldier in the future. Never mind.

Why was an entire Marine battalion used as a decoy aling with an entire Navy SEAL team and an entire Army CAG team used to rescue one Pfc female POW. And should we expect the same resources to be used for say the black woman who is now a POW ? And if not, why not ? And should we expect the same expenditure of resources for a male POW who is a Pfc ?

The report was that they were there to get the "chemical Ali" guy, and they received a tip - a written note - about the location of a POW that was alive, and maybe others, so they went.

I think they would have gone in to get any of our own that we could locate. Yes.

Why was an entire Marine battalion used as a decoy aling with an entire Navy SEAL team and an entire Army CAG team used to rescue one Pfc female POW. And should we expect the same resources to be used for say the black woman who is now a POW ?

Are you implying that if Special OPs finds out the location of the black female soldier or even the rest of the male soldiers, they won't bother expending much resources to rescue them?

Man, I know soldiers that would punch someone out for that....