Al Gore.
Damn that Private Lynch, say the wingnuts. She gets in a jeep accident and captured by the Iraqis, the US military does a stunning made-for-TV rescue complete with shouted orders, Betacam recorders whirring, shots fired despite a virtually empty hospital and no Iraqi troops...we take all that great stuff and invent a legend around it. The brave, plucky blonde heroine, wounded, emptying her M-16 at the attacking Iraqis. God, motherhood, patriotism, and apple pie all in one tv-ready package.
Now, she turns out to be really courageous, saying that the military had no need to film her non-rescue, that they've made too much of her role, that she didn't really go down firing, and that Iraqi medical personnel treated her with dignity and compassion.
Dirty liberal commie bitch. Some people have no appreciation for being turned into a jingoistic cartoon.
A random observation....(aren't they all?) Remember last spring when the US was threatening to wage war against Iraq, for no apparent reason? Remember when something like 10 million people worldwide took to the streets to protest and try and stop it from happening? (Even a little candlelight vigil here on Gilligan's Island.)
Well, what's happened since then?
They defied world opinion, went ahead and did it anyway.
They've killed thousands of Iraqis and hundreds of American soldiers.
They haven't found Saddam, OR ANY "weapons of mass destruction."
The fact that it is past/present instead of future doesn't make it any more moral.
And the "war" has proved to be disastrous on every conceivable level.
So why is everyone so quiet now???????????
It's a done deal? Everything's ok now?
Somehow, I think we should be screaming louder instead of quietly accepting it.
