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Originally Posted by Fidei Defensor
Neither do I re: Pvt. Lynch. I do remember hearing about a fellow soldier who fought off ambushers, killing a few, until he ran out of ammo and was captured. I never heard about any similar heroics by Pvt. Lynch.....
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Selective memory?
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Originally Posted by jviehe
..... I also dont recall any rambo style accounting of Lynchs ambush by the military....
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More selective memory?
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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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It was the Republican politicians actually, that fed the media, according to the deputy commander at United States Central Command from 2001 to 2003, who represented the military in dealing with politicians regarding the capture and rescue of Pfc. Jessica D. Lynch in Iraq
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Originally Posted by BlackAsCoal
That is truly amazing.
Next you'll be hearing Coulter call Tillman a liberal bastard who jumped into the line of fire only to embarass the Bush Administration for the "jihadists" he was working for .. and the goosesteppers will quack quack right along with her.
And Limbaugh, in his drug-induced never served a day in the military life, will be calling Lynch a communist who was converted to Islam during her visit with the "terrorists" .. and the lemmings will shout "ditto', "ditto", RushGod.
Amazing
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God forbid.
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Originally Posted by jviehe
No doubt that is how they view it.
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No doubt it's the way it happened.
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Originally Posted by Mark_Twain
But not you. You'll never let a single fact get in the way of your delirium.
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Originally Posted by jviehe
This is as good an accounting as youll get of what really happened to Lynch. Its obvious most of Tillmans and Lynch complaints should be directed at the media, and not the military.
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The weekly neocon standard is never a good accounting of anything. The deputy commander at United States Central Command from 2001 to 2003, who represented the military in dealing with politicians regarding the capture and rescue of Pfc. Jessica D. Lynch in Iraq, IMHO is a good accounting. I'll post what he said below.
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Originally Posted by gem
Why should they blame the media when the media is only reporting what the military officials and the WH told them? Don't you think it'd be wiser to lay the blame precisely where it belongs? Or have you forgotten that the WH and the Pentagon said, from the beginning of this war, that they would be engaging in a campaign of disseminating misinformation?
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Seriously, do neocons believe the media makes stuff up? The Republicans feed the media lies, and then blame the media for reporting the lies! LOL! I hope the media has learned a valuable lesson in these past 6 years of lies and misleading information from the government.
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AS the deputy commander at United States Central Command from 2001 to 2003, I represented the military in dealing with politicians regarding the capture and rescue of Pfc. Jessica D. Lynch in Iraq, and thus I can speak with authority about what really happened after her maintenance convoy got lost near Nasiriya in 2003 and she was taken prisoner. I feel compelled to respond to accusations that have been made in recent days by several politicians.
The initial reports from the field regarding Private Lynch stated that she had gone down fighting, had emptied her weapon and that her actions were heroic. Based on these reports, politicians from her home state, West Virginia, wanted the military to award her the Medal of Honor. Their request rose up the ladder until finally it reached me.
But initial combat reports are often wrong. Time must always be taken to thoroughly investigate all claims. In the case of Private Lynch, additional time was needed, since she was suffering from combat shock and loss of memory; facts, therefore, had to be gathered from other sources. The military simply didn’t know at that point whether her actions merited a medal.
This is why, when the request landed on my desk, I told the politicians that we’d need to wait. I made it clear that no one would be awarded anything until all of the evidence was reviewed.
The politicians did not like this. They called repeatedly, through their Congressional liaison, and pressured us to recommend her for the medal, even before all the evidence had been analyzed. I would not relent and we had many heated discussions.
The politicians repeatedly said that a medal would be good for women in the military; I responded that the paramount issue was finding out what had really happened.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/27/op...ca&oref=slogin