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A modern American war myth
The rescue of Private Jessica Lynch was exposed as a set-up - she didn't engage in a firefight until her ammunition ran out as was claimed by the US military, she was a clerk. She wasn't stabbed and shot but had a broken leg and arm which were being treated by the Iraqi doctors. There was no firefight to 'rescue' her, as there were no Iraqi troops at the hospital, and the doctors were amazed when a group of Americans burst in complete with camera team and started shouting at everyone [they had checked with a guy in the street the day before and he'd told them the soldiers had gone]. One of the doctors had even offered to drive the Private to an American checkpoint, but was turned down, this was too good an opportunity to be missed by the Pentagon slime-brains, who, needing some gung-ho 'good news', fabricated the whole thing, staging it just like a movie. "We heard the noise of helicopters," said Dr Anmar Uday. He said that they must have known there would be no resistance. "We were surprised. Why do this? There was no military, there were no soldiers in the hospital." "It was like a Hollywood film. They cried, 'Go, go, go', with guns and blanks and the sound of explosions. They made a show - an action movie like Sylvester Stallone or Jackie Chan, with jumping and shouting, breaking down doors." All the time with the camera rolling. The Americans took no chances, restraining doctors and a patient who was handcuffed to a bed frame. General Vincent Brooks, the US spokesman in Doha, declared: "Some brave souls put their lives on the line to make this happen, loyal to a creed that they know that they'll never leave a fallen comrade." So a completely put up job to manipulate the American public when the war was going badly. Since then, Private Jessica has denied the story and accused the military of using her to make the war popular at home. Her book gives her side of the story, which differs from the military on every count. Several fictional accounts are being made for TV, and many in the US will continue to believe the original lies. She survived "principally because of the medical attention she received from the Iraqis", a Pentagon source told the Washington Times. Early reports also referred to her supply convoy, from 507th Maintenance Company, being ambushed by Iraqi forces. But the investigation found that a series of blunders by a commanding officer led the lumbering, 13-vehicle convoy directly into Nasariyah, a well-defended town. It concluded that Capt Troy Kent King, a newly promoted 37-year-old from Texas, misread his orders and took a series of wrong turns into the town, past waving Iraqis at military checkpoints. As the convoy attempted two successive U-turns, vehicles broke down, ran out of petrol, became stuck or collided with each other while Iraqi fire poured in on the column. Many of the Americans' weapons jammed, possibly due to poor maintenance. Of the 33 soldiers who entered Nasariyah, 11 were killed, seven were captured and one died in captivity, the report said. Private Jessica was injured in a collision, not from a firefight. The US DOD webs page which featured the original article, is now not available, I wonder why. Jessica has since had a baby. Similarly, the Saddam statue's 'demolition by Iraqis' was staged by the US Army with a bunch of American-trained Iraqi returnees, to fool the media and the rest of the world. A website showed the larger view of the whole square, with a tiny crowd in one corner around the statue surrounded by camera teams. Despite this exposure the image is still used as a semiotic for the 'liberation' of Iraq. Truth decay is continuing. A lot of the journalists are now complaining of being controlled and manipulated while 'embedded' in military units, while the ones in Qatar witnessing the Pentagon press briefings say it was so tightly controlled it was the American show; all the front seats were reserved for American network journos and hardly anyone else got a look in, certainly no one likely to ask awkward questions. |
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,956255,00.html
| http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/06/18/wirq318.xml
| http://www.jessica-lynch.com/
| http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-12920562,00.html
| http://www.workers.org/2007/world/neutron-bomb-0510/
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