capitalize on her.
-Kevin
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sandy Clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, November 10, 2003 8:17 AM
Subject: RE: Oh my god. Jessica Lynch said the Us Military blatantly lied.
> I find it strange that she is capitalizing on her capture herself (by
> writing and promoting a book) and then taking the US government to task
for
> doing the same. Whatever happened to approaching something with clean
> hands.
>
> I'm not discounting what she says by any means. (I have no idea what
> happened), but the fact that she is profiting from this leaves me with a
bad
> taste in my mouth.
>
> _____
>
> From: Angel Stewart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, November 10, 2003 9:04 AM
> To: CF-Community
> Subject: Oh my god. Jessica Lynch said the Us Military blatantly lied.
>
>
> LYNCH SLAMS RESCUE 'LIES'
>
>
> US hero Private Jessica Lynch has slammed the American government for
> exaggerating the account of her 'rescue' from Iraqi captors.
>
>
> The 20-year-old said "it hurt" for the Pentagon to make claims about the
> rescue operation that were not true.
>
>
> And she said it was "wrong" for the US government to use her as a
> "symbol" for the war.
>
>
> The outspoken criticism came during an interview on a US news network to
> promote her book I Am a Soldier Too.
>
>
> "They used me as a way to symbolise all this stuff," she told the ABC
> network.
>
>
> She continued: "It hurt in a way that people would make up stories that
> they had no truth about."
>
>
> The slight blonde also said it was wrong for the American military to
> film the rescue.
>
>
> The Pentagon initially produced a dramatic account of how Lynch was
> rescued.
>
>
> It claimed she had been beaten and stabbed by her Iraqi captors.
>
>
> "I don't think it happened quite like that," Lynch told ABC.
>
>
> Sceptics dismissed the original account as wartime propaganda and a BBC
> documentary alleged the 'rescue' had been staged.
>
>
> She told ABC she was not involved in any shootout because her rifle had
> jammed.
>
> Military officials later acknowledged that Lynch wasn't shot, but was
> hurt after her Humvee utility vehicle was hit by a rocket-propelled
> grenade and crashed into another vehicle.
>
>
> American media reported on Thursday that the book, which will be
> released in the US on Tuesday, would contain allegations that she was
> raped by Iraqis.
>
>
> "Even just the thinking about that, that's too painful," she told ABC.
> -----------------------------------
>
>
> Why on earth isn't someone being held responsible for these lies that
> are being told to the world!???
>
>
> http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-12920562,00.html
>
>
> -Gel
>
>
> _____
>
>
>
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