Lynch Book Says Iraqi Doctors Were Saviors - Yahoo News

[MoonAndSun]

1 hour, 58 minutes ago

By ERIN McCLAM, Associated Press Writer

<snip> NEW YORK - The authorized biography of Pfc. Jessica Lynch debunks early myths that U.S. troops waged a daring rescue to save her, and describes a team of Iraqi doctors as gentle caretakers who worked at their own risk to keep her alive.


<snip> The biography, by former New York Times writer Rick Bragg, discredits stories from the war's first days that Lynch shot at her Iraqi captors, and that the Iraqi hospital was hostile territory that posed grave danger to Lynch's rescuers.


<snip> Lynch told Bragg she wished the war had never taken place because other soldiers would then be alive — including Lori Piestewa, a soldier close to Lynch who was killed in the ambush.

"We went and we did our job, and that was to go to the war, but I wish I hadn't done it — I wish it had never happened," Lynch says. "I'd give four hundred billion dollars. I'd give anything."




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no mention of the fact that Bragg fired from NYTimes for being a bad boy!!

[Hubert Flottz]

1. I wish she wouldn't have had to gone to Iraq too!

I still think the war in Iraq was an effort to boost Repub support in election 2002 and steal the Senate! Look at what all Bush has managed to push through congress since the Repubs gained control of the Senate!(Zero Accountability for Bush) Bush is pulling all the strings now and that's a hell of a prize to dominate all three branches of our government! It means Bush is a full fledged Dictator!

Now if Bush can keep the war going for another year he could care less who's kids get killed in Iraq as long as the Repubs win the election! If Bush can dominate America with fear and lies for another year he will win the Mother Of All Trifectas!

[Media_Lies_Daily]

2. But, they still couldn't keep from muddying the waters, could they?...

Some choice excerpts from this article...

"Lynch, then a 19-year-old Army supply clerk, was rescued nine days later by American soldiers who had been tipped off by an Iraqi lawyer that she was captive in a hospital."

This is the same Iraqi lawyer who claimed that he saw Lynch being slapped around, an event that Lynch denies ever happened, and landed a TV movie deal for $500,000. He now works as a consultant for Livingston, the former GOP Congressman who was sidelined by Larry Flynt.

"In that time, according to medical records cited in the biography, Lynch was raped and suffered broken bones, torn flesh and two spinal fractures. Iraqi doctors who treated her have told reporters she was not raped."

The "broken bones (two legs and an arm), torn flesh and two spinal fractures" were the result of the vehicle overturning. She also did not lose consciousness at the moment of impact as so many earlier accounts stated. Not only do the Iraqi doctors state that she wasn't raped as claimed in the book, but Lynch herself has no recollection of this supposed event.

"The book also says Lynch strongly resisted Iraqi doctors who wanted to amputate one of her legs at a general hospital in Nasiriyah. The surgery never took place."

Based on the track record of this book in regards to Lynch's alleged "medical record", I doubt seriously that this event took place either.

IMHO, the author of the book should have stuck with the information he was getting directly from Lynch. Reliance on Lynch's so-called "medical records", either first-hand or from one or more "sources", is coming back to haunt him.