posted 11-07-2003 11:12 AM            

http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/1103/07lynchsawyer.html

In her first public statements since her rescue in Iraq, Jessica Lynch criticized the military for exaggerating accounts of her rescue and recasting her ordeal as a patriotic fable.

Asked by the ABC News anchor(and CFR member) Diane Sawyer if the military's portrayal of the rescue bothered her, Lynch said: "Yeah, it does. It does that they used me as a way to symbolize all this stuff. Yeah, it's wrong," according to a partial transcript of the interview to be broadcast on Tuesday.

WAY TO GO JESSICA.

YEP....THEY LIED TO PUSH THEIR AGENDA.

BUT WE ALREADY KNEW THAT.

Do you like theatre?

Watch Hannity

Watch Peter Jennings

Watch FOX.

posted 11-07-2003 02:24 PM            

They made themselves into liars!

She has merely shown that she has a conscience, and is attempting to tell some truth.

And should be discharged for
"failure to adapt to military service"

'Serve with the best/ lie like the rest.'

posted 11-07-2003 03:42 PM            

PALESTINE, W.Va. - Former prisoner of war Jessica Lynch accused the military of using her capture and dramatic nighttime rescue to sway public support for the war in Iraq.

Dramatic video of U.S. commandos whisking the former Army supply clerk from a Nasiriyah hospital to a waiting chopper April 1 helped cement Lynch's image as a hero. But the 20-year-old private told ABC's Diane Sawyer there was no reason for her rescue to be filmed.

"They used me as a way to symbolize all this stuff," Lynch told Sawyer in a "Primetime" interview to air Tuesday. "It's wrong."

The network posted the excerpt on its Web site Friday.

Lynch suffered broken bones and other injuries when her 507th Maintenance Company convoy was attacked after taking a wrong turn in the Iraqi town of Nasiriyah on March 23.

Early reports had Lynch fighting her attackers until she ran out of ammunition and suffering knife and bullet wounds. Military officials later said Lynch wasn't shot, but was hurt after her Humvee utility vehicle was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade and crashed into another vehicle.

She was awarded the Bronze Star, Purple Heart and Prisoner of War medals while still in the hospital in Washington, D.C.

Lynch told Sawyer she was just in the wrong place at the wrong time, and that her gun jammed during the chaos. "I'm not about to take credit for something I didn't do," she said.

"I did not shoot, not a round, nothing. ... I went down praying to my knees. And that's the last I remember."

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SEE...

posted 11-09-2003 06:17 PM            

http://entertainment.msn.com/news/article.aspx?news=139937