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This whole Jessica Lynch deal is rather weird. Seems like someone (femitwit journalists? Nah!) are trying very hard indeed to turn her into somekind of half baked female Audie Murphy.
As I recall all she did in this ambush was to get her legs broken in a truck crash and pass out.
Actually, another female soldier was killed in this incident but we don't hear much about her.
Who is pushing this Jessica Lynch nonsense and why?
Also, just a couple of years ago female Air Force officer, a jet bomber pilot no less, was allowed to resign her commission and leave the Air Force to avoid being court martialed for adultery. I think she got a big $$$$$$ book deal for her story too.
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"I Am a Soldier, Too: The Jessica Lynch Story,"
No, Jessica, you're not.
My PT requirements were stringent. Yours were a joke, something most 12 year old boys could easily pass.
You were exempt from dangerous duty.
You were shielded from direct combat.
The only reason you were even involved in an attack was bad intellegence and a wrong turn.
You never had to kill, and watch people die from your gun. You never had to pull a wounded comrade from a firefight.
No, Jessica, you're not a soldier. You're a little girl, playing Army. And that young man's father is dead right. You should be ashamed of yourself.
* Putting the SMACKDOWN on Feminazis since 1989! *
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It always seemed kind of weird to me how the fellow who informed the US about her whereabouts didn't get news interviews every five minutes.
How the other soldiers who rescued her weren't awarded full college scholarships, didn't get their faces on the cover of magazines [at least that I noticed].
I think we should be offering book deals to the fellows who are still being attacked in Iraq. But it wouldn't as inspirational as a young girl in danger, now would it?
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by Anonymous User on Monday September 08, @09:27PM EST (#4)
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There was a real hero in this story. He was a Sergeant, and he didn't get nearly the recognition or glory that Jessica did, although he deserved much more than she got. He's also dead. I read his story, but I forget his name. It's a heck of a story, but I only saw or heard his name once.
After the sexist media's biased coverage of this story subsides perhaps the good Sergaent's courage will get the coverage it deserves, and the little supply clerk can live fat on the dollars her profiteering has brought her.
The only reason Jessica is a story is because she is an attractive, white female (blond no less) who has survived an ordeal. She is becoming a poster girl for the "You go girl" crowd. A poster girl for those despicable sexists who we have all come to know for what they are.
Shame on those who heap undue glory on Jessica Lynch and forget the 99.999% of combat deaths in Iraq who are men.
Respectfully, Ray
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by Anonymous User on Tuesday September 09, @06:25AM EST (#5)
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I've no problem with hero/heroine status being conferred on Jessica Lynch or any other female soldier. So she single handedly defeated the Iraqi army despite sustaining 500 bullet wounds. Great! The myth of the helpless defenceless female is finally laid to rest.
The problem is that these female rambos still expect enjoy the advantages of being helpless defenceless females ( and those advantages are numerous).
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by Anonymous User on Tuesday September 09, @09:22PM EST (#6)
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"I've no problem with hero/heroine status being conferred on Jessica Lynch or any other female soldier. So she single handedly defeated the Iraqi army despite sustaining 500 bullet wounds."
If it were true, but it isn't. Again the fact that hero status and boundless adulation has been conferred on her by the media especially is out of reason when compared to the sacrifices of others in her unit.
Ray
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I am still trying to grasp why being captured and rescued qualifies you as a hero. Why is she the most well-known military person in the entire operation, after Tommy Franks? What about all the brave troops who engage in acts of heroism EVERY DAY? What about that guy who risked his life to save those little Muslim kids?
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This reminds me of the Simpsons episode when Bart played a prank, fooling the town into thinking that a boy, Timmy, had fallen down a well. Homer and Lisa were discussing "Timmy's" ordeal:
Homer: "That Timmy is a real hero."
Lisa: "Why is he a hero, dad?"
Homer: "He fell down a well and can't get out."
Lisa: "How does that make him a hero?"
Homer: "Well... It's more than you ever did!"
R
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