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Thursday, May 29, 2003
      ( 10:06 AM )
 
JUST IN: More Intrigue Lies about Pvt. Lynch

This poor girl is going to be traumatized enough...but the manipulation of her and her family is just crazy. This morning Pvt. Lynch's father, said to a press conference that, regarding her "rescue": "we're not supposed to talk about that." He later said that no one had told them not to talk about it, but didn't expound on it.

The bigger deal is that he said she didn't have amnesia and never had amnesia. "She can still remember everything," he said to reporters. So there goes that avenue for cover-up by the Pentagon. Looks like Bill O'Reilly may have to eat his foot. Oh, I forgot, he's never wrong, he just moves on to the next story.

AP had a more detailed story yesterday about one of its reporters interviewing doctors and witnesses at the scene... to verify the BBC reports that have been so roundly scorned by the Pentagon and BushCo apologists in the U.S. media this week:

In interview after interview, the assessment
was the same: The dramatics that surrounded
Lynch's rescue were unnecessary. Some
also said the raid itself was unneeded because
they were trying to turn Lynch over, although
they conceded they made no attempt to notify
U.S. troops of that effort.

...

"If they had come to the door and asked
for Jessica, we would have gladly handed
her over to them. There was no need for all
that drama," said Dr. Hazem Rikabi, an internist.

The Pentagon insists that the town was in heavy combat and that the forces had no way of knowing what kind of resistance they might meet. But if they had intelligence on where she was, where was their intelligence about the fact that Iraqi troops had left the area already? Either the Army was depending on really shotty intelligence, or...

And as to her being ill-treated and left for dead, as most of the stories surrounding her rescue stated or implied:

In the hospital, staffers said, Lynch made
friends from around the building with her
kind ways and jokes, and employees went
out of their way to keep her comfortable.

For a week, Dr. Wajdi al-Jabbar said, he
and an ambulance driver rode the perilous
streets to get her fruit juice. Suad Husseiniya,
a nurse, said she grew so attached to Lynch
that she repeatedly rubbed talcum powder
into the soldier's sore back.

"She knew everyone by their first name,"
said the hospital's deputy director, Dr.
Khodheir al-Hazbar.

This entire episode now sounds like she was probably more traumatized by the "rescue" itself than her entire stay in the hospital. The doctors and nurses were trying to help her through a terrible time, she'd just lost her comrades, and she was feeling like things would be okay. And then, when they tried to return her to her own forces, they were shot at, and the next day, after trying to return her again, but then finding that all the Iraqi soldiers had pulled out... a huge, violent commando attack operation was conducted, wreaking destruction and havoc on the hospital, handcuffing the hospital director...and shooting bullets...all to sweep her away in filmed glory.

The kid isn't even 20 years old. I really despise the way the Pentagon has manipulated her and her family and the way that our own media has failed to report the truth, once again. I feel so bad for her, going through this crap. She and her family obviously don't care about her being made into a hero, they just want her to be home.

This could be the first highly-attention-getting crack in BushCo's polymer coating...



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