Saving Private Lynch on A&E

Arts and Entertainment Channel ^

[World'sGoneInsane]

I searched and didn't see this posted.

Tonight at 10 pm EST A&E:

A Bill Kurtis Special Report

An in-depth look at the rescue of Private First Class Jessica Lynch by American Special Forces from an Iraqi hospital. Bush Administration officials said that it was an Iraqi who passed a note to US marines which launched the daring mission that extracted Private Lynch from the Nasiriyah hospital. TV PG

[Anamensis]

I wonder if we'll find out why she was separated from the other 507th POWs.

[blam]

Got it. I like Bill Kurtis, the narrator.

[yooper]

"I wonder if we'll find out why she was separated from the other 507th POWs."

Think about it. Why would a good looking woman be separated from a bunch of men?

[dandelion]

I think it might actually have more to do with her apparent injuries... after all, Pfc. Johnson, with minor injuries, was left with her fellow soldiers. But Pfc. Lynch, with evidently more massive wounds from the beginning, may have been "chosen" to go to the hospital for torture and interrogations, knowing her death and injuries could be attributed to combat.

Pfc. Piestawa was also in the same group as Pfc Lynch, and she reportedly died in combat. Her body, along with the others of the 507th, was recovered at the hospital where Pfc. Lynch was held. It was reported that the Johnson and the others POWs did not know Pfc. Lynch was still alive; this information was obviously withheld from them, or, having seen Lynch's vehicle hit by RPG, they assumed she was dead.

One could conjecture that, knowing Lynch was assumed dead by the others of the 507th, the Iraqis planned to interrogate then kill Lynch, and bury her with the rest of her fallen comrades.

[blam]

3:00pm, December, Friday 13th, 1066ad was the battle of Hastings.

I've often wondered if this is where we get the idea that Friday's the 13th are bad luck.

[blam]

"the Iraqis planned to interrogate then kill Lynch, and bury her with the rest of her fallen comrades."

There was talk of amputating her leg. They wouldn't do that if they planned to execute her, would they?

[dandelion]

Former POW's and political prisoners in Iraq report that amputation was a favorite "tool of torture" for Saddam. He would routinely order the unanesthetized amputation of ears, noses, arms, genitalia, and legs of those who crossed him, and, if memory serves, his cronies threatened some of our former Gulf War POWs with amputation/castration if they didn't make statements against the war.

Those who tortured Saddam's prisoners were sadists beyond compare. Yes, considering they were slapping her around while she lay in a hospital bed, I believe they would have threatened her with amputation if she was not cooperating.

[cryptical]

I've heard that it comes from Friday, October 13th 1307, the day the King of France arrested the Knights Templar.

[blam]

"I've heard that it comes from Friday, October 13th 1307, the day the King of France arrested the Knights Templar."

Thanks. Hadn't heard that one. Maybe it was just an accumulation of bad Friday the 13th's, huh?

[af_vet_1981]

I think we already know why

[Yaron]

You might be right. Or it could be that Hospitals are the usual places to administer medical care. The most obvious scenario is usually the correct one.

[Iwo Jima]

According to the lawyer who alerted our side to her whereabouts, Pfc Lynch's DOCTORS, who were by all accounts giving her the best care that they had available, were discussing amputation of a leg. Apparently, the state of medical care in Iraq is about the same as Civil War times for us -- amputation was a standard treatment option for a wounded limb because that didn't know how to or did not have the resources available to treat the wound so as to prevent gangrene.

Luckily, the lawyer (whose name escapes me) persuaded the doctors to put such thoughts to rest as he made efforts to get Lynch rescued so that she could receive effective medical treatment.

Thankfully, the only reliable evidence that we have that Pfc Lynch was tortured or mistreated was the slapping incident that the lawyer observed and which so outraged him that he took the risks that he did to secure her rescue. From that perspective, that slap was just about the luckiest thing that could have happened to her.

From what we know, Pfc Lynch served her country honorably and well, suffering greivious injuries in the process. She is to be thanked and commended for a job well done and for enduring her injuries and captivity well. I find the relentless desire of some people (I'm not targeting you with this remark) to want to believe without supporting evidence and with some evidenceto the contrary that she was tortured and raped unseemly at best and extremely disrespectful and hurtful to Pfc Lynch.