Military manipulated story says Jessica Lynch

[Honeykiss1974]

Lynch: Military manipulated story

Former POW says rescue shouldn’t have been filmed.


ASSOCIATED PRESS

PALESTINE, W.Va., Nov. 7 — Former prisoner of war Jessica Lynch said the U.S. military was wrong to manipulate the story of her dramatic rescue and should not have filmed it in the first place.

THE 20-YEAR-OLD private told ABC’s Diane Sawyer in “Primetime” interview to air Tuesday that she was bothered by the military’s portrayal of her ordeal.

“They used me as a way to symbolize all this stuff,” she said in an excerpt from the interview, posted Friday on the network’s Web site. “It hurt in a way that people would make up stories that they had no truth about,” she said. She also said there was no reason for her rescue from an Iraqi hospital to be filmed. “It’s wrong,” she said.

The former Army supply clerk suffered broken bones and other injuries when her maintenance convoy was attacked in the Iraqi town of Nasiriyah on March 23. U.S. forces rescued Lynch at a Nasiriyah hospital April 1.

I DID NOT SHOOT!
Early reports had Lynch fighting her attackers until she ran out of ammunition and suffering knife and bullet wounds. Military officials later acknowledged that Lynch wasn’t shot, but was hurt after her Humvee utility vehicle was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade and crashed into another vehicle.

Lynch told Sawyer she was just in the wrong place at the wrong time, and that her gun jammed during the chaos. “I’m not about to take credit for something I didn’t do,” she said. “I did not shoot, not a round, nothing ... I went down praying to my knees. And that’s the last I remember.”

Lynch said she was terrified and feared for her life during her time in the Iraqi hospital, and didn’t believe she was being rescued until she was being evacuated in a U.S. helicopter. Then, Lynch said, she felt, “My God, this is real. I’m going home.”

Footage of the rescue was aired repeatedly on television networks reporting how a special forces team bravely fought into and out of the hospital. “I don’t think it happened quite like that,” Lynch said.

But she praised the soldiers who rescued her. “They’re the ones that came in to rescue me. Those are my heroes ... I’m so thankful that they did what they did. They risked their lives. They didn’t know, you know, who was in there.”

NO MEMORY OF RAPE
On Thursday, newspaper reports revealed Lynch had been raped during her capture. The assault was revealed in Lynch’s authorized biography — “I am a Soldier, Too: The Jessica Lynch Story.” The 207-page book will be released by publisher Alfred A. Knopf on Tuesday, Veterans Day.

According to the newspapers, the rape was documented by medical records. Lynch told Sawyer she has no recollection of the attack. “Even just the thinking about that, that’s too painful,” she said.

[mccoyred]

The more I hear and see, I think that this whole Jessica Lynch drama was STAGED. Not to belittle the efforts of the brave men and women who are putting their lives on the line because of the jack*ss that sits in the White House but let me lay it out for you.

1 The ambush/kidnapping happened at or near the end of 'hostilities' and it was FILMED?

2 How come she was the only one seperated from the other POWs in that and the previous ambush? She wasn't the only one that needed medical attention?

3 Why is her story being splashed all over the media just as the Congress approved $87 BILLION in support for the Iraq takeover effort AND the White House is in the middle of a public relations nightmare?

I am not a conspiracy theorist but this whole thing stinks to me. If we can stage a walk on the moon, why can't we stage a 'damsel in distress' half a world away? After all, some say the first Iraq war was staged!

[Honeykiss1974]

Originally posted by mccoyred
I am not a conspiracy theorist but this whole thing stinks to me. If we can stage a walk on the moon, why can't we stage a 'damsel in distress' half a world away? After all, some say the first Iraq war was staged!

You believe the moon theory too, huh?

Girl, don't get me started on this war and how it ties into the economy. Most people don't know that the US's recession ended in November of 2001? Hmm, could that mean the Sept. 11 was "allowed" to happen so that companies could have an excuse to to thin out their workforce and to send jobs overseas(increasing the bottom line)?

Wasn't it interesting that after Sept.11, the VERY NEXT DAY, companies were talking about layoffs, job eliminations, etc. And these were not even companies in the air craft industry.

Isn't it interesting that Halliburton (VP Cheney's old company before he accepted the VP position) is being paid $2.65 a gallon by the US Gov't for Iraq's oil then the US resells the oil for about 5 to 15 CENTS a gallon!

Who is this deal benefiting besides Cheney's stock options and retirement bonus, and Bush's campaign fund?

I could go on for days............

[NinjaPoodle]

http://www.msnbc.com/news/991152.asp?0cv=CA01

[D.COM]

Funny you mentioned "staged"

You should watch the movie: "Wag the Dog."