Jessica Lynch Book Trouble (page 6)

Yerusalyim

Mr Kim of course always thinks and reads between the lines cuz he can't accept the truth when it's there in black and white. He reads about black helicopters and the illuminati between the lines too.

Not a single person on this forum has a single shred of hard evidence as to what happened to Lynch or what happened during her rescue. Yet facts are exchanged here like they are the truth. Polictical inclinations seem to pass for facts I guess.

I can see why so many here believed the BS the watchtower handed down. You want to believe something so your beliefs pass for truth.

You'd think we'd learn.

amac

Settle down everyone! The book has been released, since it is only one paragraph long I can retype it below:

So anyway, we were driving along and it seemed that we were getting lost. I heard a loud noise and then we crashed. I blacked out. I woke up in an Iraqi hospital where they were taking care of me. They tried to return me to my owners but were shot at. Then the soldiers came in to get me. They were scared that there might be enemies around so they made a real big ruckus. There were no enemies though. They took me home. I realized everyone was enthralled with my story, so decided to right this. The End.

Yerusalyim

Stacy,

Part of that might be true...but I'm speaking with some amount of expertise on the military end of this.

Stacy Smith

Yeru I know you've spoken from your experiences but obviously we have people here with zero experience who offer opinions as though they are facts. I know about gps's and responded a bit about them. I was offering a general observation about how easily ex-dubs believe whatever they want to believe as if the other side has nothing to offer. Sort of like how churches are the tools of satan, nothing else, no good comes from them at all.

Yizuman

Simon writes: Now, I wonder why we've only seen edited highlights?

Have you ever heard of national security or army security secrets?

Some things should not be said, strategy wise to the public to keep their enemies at bay or figure out what sort of procedures they may use to take advantage of that knowledge against the US Military Officers.

Or would you rather have every single detail out in the open and let our enemies know how they operate and think, so more men would be killed because of it?

Yiz

AlanF

Simon, I'd like to know if you're going to answer Yeru's excellent analysis of your biased and ignorant comments.

While there's no doubt in my mind that the Lynch story was hyped for PR purposes, your sources present an extremely biased commentary, some of which is just plain stupid. Note the following from the link you gave ( http://more.abcnews.go.com/sections/nightline/World/iraq_507convoy030617_pt1.html ):

"Lynch, the 19-year-old supply clerk from Palestine, W.Va., would end up being taken captive — not after a gun battle as early reports suggested, but after a devastating Humvee accident as the driver tried to get away from Iraqi fire."

Do you notice anything wrong with this statement? Probably not, so I'll explain. The last part says that the Humvee driver was trying to get away from Iraqi fire. I.e., there was a gun battle. Yet the first part of the statement poo-poos the notion that there was a gun battle. It's obvious that the writer is so biased and so desperate to paint the U.S. military in a bad light that he can't even see when he writes blatantly self-contradictory things. It's also sad that many readers are so similarly biased that they can't see this either.

Was there a gun battle? Your other link ( http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,956255,00.html ) certainly said so:

" Private 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. That much is uncontested."

Nine soldiers killed and some morons are claiming that there was no gun battle? The hospital had been swarming with fedayeen and some morons are claiming that the U.S. soldiers should have taken the word of some random Iraqi man that they had all left?

Start using your brain, Simon, the same one that lets you put this great website together.

AlanF

rem

when that story first aired ON FRONT PAGE AND THE LEAD STORY ON CABLE AND NETWORK NEWS i dare say all of us was like "DAMN!!!!!!!!!!!!!" she was kicking A$$'-

Interesting perspective, though I never got that impression from any of the news-stories I saw about the event. And I was a CNN-aholic at the time.

rem

Stacy Smith

Nicely put Alan. Perhaps Simon only cut and pasted without reading.

But it backs up my thoughts that everyone has an agenda and will quote anything that has even a remote chance of backing up their beliefs.

Simon

Ah the old red-herring and irellevency tactic.

WHY she was there is not relevant although it has to be said that the reality (getting lost and crashing) is less emphasised (and less impressive) than the "ooh, she faught off all these troops"

What I object to is the massive propaganda and media hype which is done by the unthinking media and used by the pentagon.

The simple fact is that those "nasty, evil Iraqi's" had taken her to a hospital where she got the best care available. Of course, this is sidelined as it doesn't fit into the picture that people want to paint, as propagandists always do.

She was rescued from ... a hospital bed? It's not like she was in some dungeon.

I'm sure she was glad to be back on her way home but really, the way this has been hyped and the way some gullible folk have fallen for it is pretty pathetic IMO.

Hey, go buy the book. Go wait in line for the no-doubt 100% realistic Hollywood version that will come out. Just don't tell me what I should believe - I'll make my own mind up about that.

Just one question: I can see a reason for the Pentagon's embelishing the story (especially when you consider what was happening in the conflict at the time) but I don't see what an Iraqi doctor would get out of it?

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