Jessica Lynch Was Raped By Her Iraqi Captors

Another good reason not to feel sorry for those bearded savages in Iraq:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/990040.asp?vts=110620031207

yeah, i just read that too...why'd it take so long for this to come out? seems like this would have been a headline months ago...

souljacker said:
Another good reason not to feel sorry for those bearded savages in Iraq:

"Bearded savages?"

Can you say governmental "pro-pa-gan-da?"

Pardon my ignorance but I'm in the UK and the whole story never really got great exposure here, but how much of what has been published is actually true? I read someplace that the whole "rescue" story and her "heroism" was a bit over-described to make it seem much more gritty and provoke more of an emotional response.


I could be wrong here.

=shrugs

Can you say "subhuman life forms who deserve mass extermination for the good of humanity"?

Don't feed the troll, people.

Coming from someone who just emerged from his cave to make his 194th comment (in almost a year of membership) in the form of this pearl of wisdom.

Why in the hell does it matter whether or not this girl was raped, shot, tortured, or whatever?

No matter what she went through, it was most likely a hell that none of us could even imagine ... but some people feel the need to make light of the "propaganda".

Shouldn't the main point simply be that she's alive, home, and relatively healthy?

i'm so fucking sick of hearing about this girl. she and scott peterson and elizabeth smart + family need to be sent away.

Non sequitur (not to mention nonsensical). Did you have a point?

Ummm, the Iraquis are the mustachioed savages. Its the Afghans who are the bearded savages.

Incidentally, you might want to consider whether an account written by a proven liar that includes detals that no one could possibly know just because theyre lurid might not be the most, er, honest retelling.


What this aricle actually says is that MSNBC heard that the Daily News heard, that a fired plagiarist read in some unamed account in some medical record at some time indicated that she was sexually assaulted somehow.

From this we somehow get idle musing as to whether she was raped then beaten or vice versa, despite not being a whole hell of a lot of evidence of either. William Randolph Hearst, we hardly knew ye.

What could you possibly have against Elizabeth Smart and her family?

If she chose to remain a private person and live her life, absolutely. If she wants to pimp her experience in a sleazy tell-all, sorry but its open season.

Yeah, I think I made it. The fact that it went over your head doesn't bother me a whole lot.

Speaking of which, are you ever likely to slide out from behind you clavier organ in the catacombs and join us in real life?

Sorry, I stand corrected. Hey, by the way...whatever happened to reprobate? I haven't seen him around in a while.

He got a peerage.

it's just the media coverage.

I'm sure the survivors in My Lai have a rosy view of Americans, too.

Atrocities happen in war. If every country was wiped out when an atrocity was committed by soldiers fighting for them, every country in the world would now be empty. Including this one.

Yeah, I'm sure American soldiers have never raped anyone.

The most horrifying aspect of this entire thing is that a West Virginia hillbilly got a million bucks for a book deal.

Isn't it time for you to go listen to your hate radio programs now?

So support the troops, but when they go through hell and make it back home and try to tell their story they're "pimping their experience" and it's "open season".

Yeah, that makes a lot of sense.

I'm quite sure that she would like nothing better than to fade into anonymity but the media and the public demand make that all but impossible. If she can tell her story through this book, and make a decent sum of money in the process perhaps that will help her get to the point where she can once again be just a citizen.

Again, none of this should diminish her experience as a POW ... no matter what that experience may have been.

Have a little freaking compassion, people.

I'm sure the survivors in My Lai have a rosy view of Americans, too.

Atrocities happen in war. If every country was wiped out when an atrocity was committed by soldiers fighting for them, every country in the world would now be empty. Including this one.

Yeah just keep posting that, maybe someone will call you an ass, then you'll be happy.
Ass.

I don't want ANYONE to get raped.....EVER.

I think the ambivalence come from the fact that she was turned into a pre-packaged hero.

Feminism be damned, but this is EXACTLY the reason that women should not be in combat.