By now, you know the whole incredible story about Jessica Lynch’s heroism under fire on March 23rd at Nasiriyah, Iraq.
How her 504th Maintenance Company was ambushed, and how she waged a fierce gun battle with Iraq fighters. How she was wounded, captured, and taken to an Iraqi hospital, where she was abused and mistreated. How gun-slinging U.S. soldiers rushed into the hospital, neutralizing the resistance, and daringly rescued her under harrowing conditions.
That’s the story you heard, and are still hearing on all media day after day, because that’s what the government wants you to hear and believe.
Some informed reporters contend that one possible reason we are being fed this story over and over was that the administration needed a “hook” to get more women to join the military. That would take an “heroic female” incident, and Jessica Lynch was perfect for the part.
True? Maybe. But what we do know for sure is that the story about Jessica Lynch’s ordeal that the government spoon-fed us for whatever reason, was a bald-faced lie. And the American public might never have known the truth had it not been for Lynch herself who whistle-blew, perhaps naively, on the deviousness of this administration.
According to Lynch, she was unhappy that the military “seemed to over-dramatize” her rescue by U.S. troops; and also the spread of false information that she had gone down shooting.
“That wasn’t me,” Lynch told the Associated Press. “I’m not about to take credit for something I didn’t do. I’m not that person,” In fact, Lynch has since said, her weapon jammed and she didn’t even get off a shot.
Moreover, Lynch writes in her new book, “I Am a Soldier, Too,” that the videotape of U.S. soldiers rushing into the hospital to save her was inaccurate; the hospital staff never resisted, and even offered the troops a key.
“It disturbed me,” Lynch said. “I knew that it wasn’t the truth.”
The truth, according to Lynch, was that the Iraqi doctor and nurses were thoughtful and gentle people who secretly tried to see her to freedom.
Jessica Lynch received a $1 million advance for her book, which she will share with Rick Bragg, who helped her write it; the release of which included a prime-time ABC interview, and an unauthorized NBC movie.
Now, you would think that with offers like these Jessica Lynch would be tempted to keep her mouth shut about the truth of her ordeal, for fear of losing a lucrative contract. And even if she knew she was being “used”, to say nothing about it for fear of getting flack from her superiors.
The media being the story-hungry bottom feeders they are, will of course, squash any idea that this soldier-lady did not do what the U.S, Government said she did—even if she says now that she didn’t do it. Furthermore, Jessica would be a complete fool if she didn’t accept any legitimate offers that came her way…
But all that aside, the fact that this gal had the guts—in the face of what could become a vendetta against her—to expose the lies about what really happened (or didn’t happen) on that fateful day in Iraq, would be an act of courage for anybody—let alone a young woman fearing for her life—in these days of government secrecy, lies, and reprisals.
So, for the kind of honesty and bravery it takes to tell the truth about the flagrant deceptions in this administration, Jessica Lynch gets my vote for being a real hero, even if she had never been in Iraq.
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