Last American Hero

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Description: Last American Hero At the April 24 Congressional Oversight hearing, Lynch, portrayed in spring 2003 as the "little girl Rambo from the hills of West Virginia who went down fighting," testified that the story the military told about her was a blatant lie. Lynch never fired a shot when her caravan was ambushed. After being severely wounded, she was kept alive by Iraqi doctors and nurses, who donated their own blood to keep Lynch alive. Most shocking: according to sworn testimony during the Oversight Committee's hearing, Lynch's "rescue" from the Iraqi hospital was delayed by a day so that the Army could bring in camera crews. After stating Lynch was being held by hostile forces, the military waited 24 hours to rescue her so they could make a propaganda film. The football star--turned--soldier became the Pentagon's poster boy, and when he was shot dead by U.S. Army Rangers, the military said he was killed by enemy fire. The deception, it turns out, was not an isolated incident, but part of a pattern of keeping the truth from the families of war casualties the fallout has rocked the country. "A terrible tragedy that might have further undermined support for the war in Iraq," Kevin Tillman said, "was transformed into an inspirational message that served instead to support the ... wars in Iraq and Afghanistan." This was a perfect storm of idolatry from the Pentagon standpoint: a football hero sacrificing himself for patriotic reasons—it was central casting as far as the Rumsfeld gang was concerned. The mythology was so wonderful that the facts were inconvenient and unnecessary. Sheehan, the mother of a 24-year-old killed in action in Iraq, became a national figure when she camped outside President Bush's Texas ranch, demanding he speak to her about her son's death in Baghdad. Regardless of what people thought about her actions, many had sympathy for her loss.So it was that when Sheehan announced that she was "resigning" from a role she never sought, the loss was palpable. Yes, the antiwar movement took her for granted. She was expected to show up, draw a crowd, willingly accept the outrageous attacks of critics, risk arrest and get up the next morning and do it again. This may be the last we see of her as that Jeffersonian Democrat who believed so deeply and so unapologetically in America's promise. This is the truest measure of the darkness in which we now find ourselves. Music: Billy joel - Good Night My Angel Note on video: These reproductions are protected under fair use law for the purpose of criticism,comment,and/or reporting. Such use is non-commercial in nature, and all rights revert back to the original authors. Share with friends
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ellwyn ::: Favorites "the rest of the world hates us" and the rest of the world has shown no inclination on numerous occasions to stop genocides in progress. what counts is not what is popular, but what is just. leaving the people of Iraq subject to the cruelties and murder of saddam was never righteous. that logic would allow another real hitler to wipe out hundreds of millions of people without any resistance, but it is easier, which is why most people prefer it. 07-07-02 22:23:36 _____________________________________________________
lynchstar ::: Favorites You title this post "Last american hero"... well from the super pretty photograph you USE of Jessica Lynch, you should rename this video "SUPER COOL AND HONORABLE CHICK" or something similar. Jessica Lynch RULES!!! If you want to use a photograph of a disabled combat vet, keep your politics out of it. DUHHHHHHH...... 07-07-20 00:23:58 _____________________________________________________
Stuja5 ::: Favorites Bill is awesome. 07-07-23 17:51:12 _____________________________________________________
stingshoot ::: Favorites Can a small desert country mean anything for USA. If so you must be the weakest country in the world. No sane people can believe that. Germany, Japan and russia were dangerous foes. When Bush tries to fool you to believe your country will fall apart if you iraq he either lying or underestimating what usa is made of. I have mixed feelings about usa. Some of me admire you and some part hates you. When i saw us soldiers gunning down children i pissed me off 07-07-24 18:15:30 _____________________________________________________
SicLuceatLux2 ::: Favorites sting, it's imperative you read about 'whisperin' Hillary and all those communist Chinese agents in the Clinton White House. (there was never a chinagate trial for both Clintons because all 115 Chinese agents -hurriedly fled the country: Google: "THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY- how decades of clinton double-dealing compromised our national security" Google: "Downside Legacy at two degrees of Bill Clinton" (click "High Treason" - 'Time Lines' 07-07-25 04:56:37 _____________________________________________________
KungFuTeaLeaf ::: Favorites Bill O Riely and FOX - OMG, what has your country come to? 07-07-25 12:31:10 _____________________________________________________
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jessicaadmire ::: Favorites Jessica Lynch was offered free college but she couldn't handle it so she spread her leg lips to a common factory working whoremaster and got knocked up. Nice cop out Jessica. Brandi, Jessica's sister, never joined the military yet also gets free college and is stuck up, conceited, and just plane rude to everyone while people die in Iraq. 07-07-25 15:14:58 _____________________________________________________
cockstrong1 ::: Favorites i knew this was a damn lie when i first heard it!liars on the world stage! 07-07-26 10:08:58 _____________________________________________________
cockstrong1 ::: Favorites bill is ignorant. 07-07-26 10:16:41 _____________________________________________________
Adelaide1200 ::: Favorites Bill's the perfect Shabbot Goy... 07-07-29 15:18:27 _____________________________________________________