Lynch Says TV Bought Into Propaganda About Her
Former PFC Jessica Lynch has accused the Pentagon of distorting events surrounding her capture by the Iraqis and her later rescue by American troops. In an interview with Diane Sawyer set to air on ABC’s Primetime Tuesday night, Lynch said that the military’s story about her was wrong and suggested that it was contrived for propaganda purposes. “I don’t know why they filmed it, or why they say the things they said,” she remarked. Lynch disputed a Pentagon version of her capture in which she was described as heroically firing at the Iraqi troops until she herself was shot. She said her M-16 jammed “and I did not shoot, not a round, nothing.” (She was later awarded the Bronze Star for bravery.) Her story is being dramatized in an NBC made-for-TV movie, Saving Jessica Lynch, set to air Sunday night that one TV critic has described as “Hollywood hokum.”
Former PFC Jessica Lynch has accused the Pentagon of distorting events surrounding her capture by the Iraqis and her later rescue by American troops. In an interview with Diane Sawyer set to air on ABC’s Primetime Tuesday night, Lynch said that the military’s story about her was wrong and suggested that it was contrived for propaganda purposes. “I don’t know why they filmed it, or why they say the things they said,” she remarked. Lynch disputed a Pentagon version of her capture in which she was described as heroically firing at the Iraqi troops until she herself was shot. She said her M-16 jammed “and I did not shoot, not a round, nothing.” (She was later awarded the Bronze Star for bravery.) Her story is being dramatized in an NBC made-for-TV movie, Saving Jessica Lynch, set to air Sunday night that one TV critic has described as “Hollywood hokum.”
Initial reports also suggested that Miss Lynch had been abused after she came round in the hospital. She says that again was untrue – there was no mistreatment, and one nurse used to sing to her.
She said she was grateful to the American special forces team which rescued her but, asked whether the Pentagon’s subsequent portrayal of her rescue bothered her, she said: “Yes, it does. They used me as a way to symbolise all this stuff. It’s wrong.”
It’s interesting that America’s public war hero from this Iraq invasion was actually saved by Iraqis, yet somehow had her story twisted into a morale builder.
8 comments on “Lynch”
damn…
I thought this post might be about David (Lynch)
are you a fan?
I am a fan of Mr. Lynch, as much as I can behaving only seen Mulholland Dr.
word??
any theories? I got most of it down, except:
-who is the bum? does he control it all?
-the cowboy… what the fuck?
-old people from hell (they look so good for their age)
and
-swing dancing? swing dancing?
I had it mostly pieced together after I watched the film, but it’s too far back in my memories to recall this late at night.
totally true. her account is total bullshit. there was no “heroic rescue” the iraqis handed her to the army. not she gets a $1 million dollar book deal. what of all the other prisoners of war? they are making her a hero when she was not.
Tina L.
Right on. Funny world we live in, eh?
its propaganda. btw, ALIAS rocks.
Tina L.
hehehe Yes it does =)