It should come as no suprise that this Administration fabricated the Lynch rescue to artificially inflate public opinion for the war and create a heroine for media consumption. Some quotes from her upcoming special with Diane Sawyer (
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=638&e=1&u=/nm/20031107/en_nm/people_lync
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"My weapon did jam and I did not shoot, not a round, nothing. I don't look at myself as a hero."
Lynch said she was hurt that other people had "made up stories" about her fiercely fighting her Iraqi captors. "I'm not about to take credit for something that I didn't do... It hurt in a way that people would make up stories that they had no truth about. Only I would have been able to know that because the other four people on my vehicle aren't here to tell that story."
"An early media report quoted unnamed U.S. officials as saying she "fought to the death" before being captured and suffered multiple gunshot wounds. The Army later concluded she was hurt when her Humvee crashed into another vehicle in the convoy after being hit by a grenade. Sawyer asked Lynch if she went down "like, somebody said, Rambo?" "No, I went down praying on my knees," she replied. Lynch said she was thankful to the soldiers who rescued her but said she was troubled by the way the incident was portrayed by the military. "It does (bother me) that they used me as a way to symbolize all this stuff ... yeah, it's wrong ... I don't know why they filmed it, or why theysay the things they, you know."
How anyone could believe another word from this Administration is beyond me.