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I hope you and Rush are wrong. Although I like Rush OK, I don't think he needed to speculate like that - although the family is going to find out what happened, they surely didn't need to be wondering about stuff like that.
There was a comment on Michael Reagan that same day referring to some idiot calling Rush - thanks for filling me in as to what happened.
One other comment - yes, she's a hero in my book, as would any 95 lb. girl who "fired until she ran out of ammunition and then fought hand-to-hand" with the Iraqi scum, but here in WV, everyone's falling all over themselves to honor her (two colleges offered scholarships, paper is sending her to Hawaii, politician wants her honored in the legislature, etc.) to the point where they seem to have completely forgotten that we have other young people in the state who won't be coming back at all.
Kudos to Lynch's grandmother who, instead of exclusively exulting over Jessie's rescue, spoke of how bad she felt for families whose kids wouldn't be coming home.

Rush didn't do anything wrong. It wasn't gruesome speculation; voyeuristic. This is a country of free speech and free thought. Everyone's wondering what happened to Jessica. We wouldn't be human beings if we didn't. The torture techniques of the Iraqi thugs are well known. Rush didn't state anything most of our forces and government didn't already know.

The military has handled Jessica admirably. They are not exploiting her though her story is probably the PR coup of this war so far. For her ordeal to be broadcast widely would shut up even the most bleeding heart of liberals. As it is, word is getting around. Hollywood and their lock step soccer mom liberals would be shut up forever as flyover country realizes the horrors Jessica endured. The Rachel Corries and Michael Moores of this world instantly become objects of derision, even by those who once supported their lunacy. Jessica Lynch puts a human and American face on the horror that is that Iraqi regime. The PR value is priceless.

This Jessica Lynch thing isn't going away. Her story will get out and yeah, there probably will be a movie.

She's a nineteen year old child for God's sake. Diaper companies and Ford shower women who give birth to multiple babies after taking artificial fertility pills. Why shouldn't a young woman who served her country and suffered so horribly get the same thing?

It's a shame to have to make this moral equivalency but just to put it into perspective.