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Originally Posted by jviehe
What does FOX have to do with this? It is obvious The Tillman family and Lynch have their own political agendas. I dont see why we should beleive them any more or less than the military. I seem to recall it was the media that built these stories up more than anyone else. That the public eats it up is no the fault of the Pentagon.
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And the fact that some of the American public eats all the crap they feed them in spite of the truth right in front of their blind faces is no fault of the Pentagon.
The only reason this has come out now, although the truth of this fraud has been known for years, is because the republican congress kept any and all oversight of the Bush Administration from happening.
The toppling of Saddams statue was also another of the plethora of frauds by this administration .. was that the medias fault too?
Was it the media's fault that the Pentagon consulted a Hollywood director to film this staged "rescue"? How often do you think soldiers film "rescues"?
Have you seen any other "rescues"?
After "rescuing" Lynch, how difficult do you think it was to determine that she had not been shot and there were no stab wounds on her? You think that took like weeks to determine?
Was it the medias fault that the "Special Forces" were using blanks?
Where do you think the media got the story from?
How difficult would it have been for anyone at the Pentagon to pick up the phone and tell the press that none of this bullshit was true ..
US News
Lynch kept firing until she ran out of ammo
Thursday, April 03, 2003
Lynch kept firing until she ran out of ammo
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WASHINGTON -- Pfc. Jessica Lynch, rescued Tuesday from an Iraqi hospital, fought fiercely and shot several enemy soldiers after Iraqi forces ambushed the Army's 507th Ordnance Maintenance Company, firing her weapon until she ran out of ammunition, U.S. officials said yesterday.
Lynch, a 19-year-old supply clerk, continued firing at the Iraqis even after she sustained multiple gunshot wounds and watched several other soldiers in her unit die around her in fighting 11 days ago, one official said. The ambush took place after a 507th convoy, supporting the advancing 3rd Infantry Division, took a wrong turn in the southern city of Nasiriyah.
"She was fighting to the death," the official said. "She did not want to be taken alive."
Lynch was also stabbed when Iraqi forces closed in on her position, the official said, noting that initial intelligence reports indicated that she had been stabbed to death. No official gave any indication yesterday, however, that Lynch's wounds had been life-threatening.
Several officials cautioned that the precise sequence of events was still being determined, and further information would emerge as Lynch is debriefed. Reports thus far are based on battlefield intelligence, they say, which comes from monitored communications and from Iraqi sources in Nasiriyah whose reliability has yet to be assessed. Pentagon officials said they had heard "rumors" of Lynch's heroics but had had no confirmation.
There was no immediate indication whether Lynch's fellow soldiers killed in the ambush were among 11 bodies found by Special Operations forces who rescued Lynch at Saddam Hussein Hospital in Nasiriyah, although U.S. officials said that at least some of the bodies are believed to be those of U.S. servicemen. Two of the bodies were found in the hospital's morgue, and nine were found in shallow graves on the grounds outside.
A total of seven soldiers from the 507th are still listed as missing in action following the ambush. Five others, four men and a woman, were taken captive following the attack.
Video footage of the five has been shown on Iraqi television, along with grisly pictures of at least four soldiers killed in the battle.
Lynch, from Palestine, W.Va., arrived yesterday at a U.S. military hospital in Germany. She was in stable condition, suffering from broken arms and a broken leg, in addition to the gunshot and stab wounds, sources said.
One military officer briefed on her condition said that while Lynch was conscious and able to communicate with the U.S. commandos who rescued her, "she was pretty messed up."
Lynch's rescue at midnight local time Tuesday was a classic Special Operations raid, with U.S. commandos in Blackhawk helicopters engaging Iraqi forces on their way in and out of the medical compound, defense officials said.
Acting on information from CIA operatives, they said, a Special Operations force of Navy SEALS, Army Rangers and Air Force combat controllers touched down in blacked-out conditions. An AC-130 gunship, able to fire 1,800 rounds a minute from its 25mm cannon, circled overhead, as did a reconnaissance aircraft providing real-time overhead video imagery of the operation as it unfolded.
"There was shooting going in, there was some shooting going out," said one military officer briefed on the operation. "It was not intensive. There was no shooting in the building, but it was hairy, because no one knew what to expect. When they got inside, I don't think there was any resistance. It was fairly abandoned."
Meanwhile, U.S. Marines advanced in Nasiriyah as a diversionary tactic to preoccupy whatever Iraqi forces might still have been in the area.
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The only question left is "how dumb does one have to be not to recognize this obvious-rright-in-your-face-fraud"?
The good news is that it doesn't matter how dumb or blind they are, this is another Bush fraud, in a LONG ASS line of frauds, that has been exposed to the American people and all the world.
As the democrats continue to investigate, exposure of more frauds are on the way.