Winstonm Posted June 6, 2009 Report Share Posted June 6, 2009 Private (Jessica) Lynch, a 19-year-old clerk from Palestine, West Virginia, was a member of the US Army's 507th Ordnance Maintenance Company that took a wrong turning near Nassiriya and was ambushed. Nine of her US comrades were killed. Iraqi soldiers took Lynch to the local hospital, which was swarming with fedayeen, where he was held for eight days. The Pentagon claimed that Lynch had stab and bullet wounds, and that she had been slapped about on her hospital bed and interrogated. It was only thanks to a courageous Iraqi lawyer, Mohammed Odeh al-Rehaief, that she was saved. According to the Pentagon, Al-Rehaief risked his life to alert the Americans that Lynch was being held. Just after midnight, Army Rangers and Navy Seals stormed the Nassiriya hospital. Their "daring" assault on enemy territory was captured by the military's night-vision camera. They were said to have come under fire, but they made it to Lynch and whisked her away by helicopter. That was the message beamed back to viewers within hours of the rescue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aberlour10 Posted June 6, 2009 Report Share Posted June 6, 2009 I thought, it has been proved that most of this whole story are lies made in Rumsfeld's propaganda kitchen. Robert Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackshoe Posted June 6, 2009 Report Share Posted June 6, 2009 What is the point of this thread? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winstonm Posted June 7, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 7, 2009 What is the point of this thread? I am curious to find out if the propaganda created by the Pentagon was successfully debunked. From Glenn Greenwald (emphasis added): I defy anyone to go back and read the April and May, 2003 tongue-wagging, mindless American press accounts of Jessica Lynch's epic firefight against the Enemy; the severe gun shot and stabbing wounds she suffered; the torture to which she was subjected while in the Iraqi hospital; and the daring, gun-blazing rescue of her by our Special Forces, and then try to claim that we have a functioning, healthy political press in this country that serves as a check on government deceit and corruption. It is impossible for any minimally honest person to make that claim in light of those stories. The problem is that nothing much has changed. Our press continues to act as willing lackeys. I wonder where the outrage is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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