I don't believe for one minute that Jessica Lynch was raped. I think this is another attempt to demonize Iraqis. "Look at them. Look at those savages. Look what they did to this woman...they're animals" Same thing that the Klan used to do to black men. Just lynch him and claim he raped a white woman. Then no one will blame you because he deserved it. It's disgusting.
The imbellishment and twisting of the true story that kicked this whole thing off is disgusting. The glorification of her "rescue" in the media...("Saving Jessica Lynch"???) It's shameless. And then there is her biography full of alleged occurrences and horrors that she can't even recall but has the nerve to publish as fact after some story-hungry scumbags have pumped her head full of ideas of what kinds of horrible things might have happened to her..."We think those savages raped you Jessica, what do you think?" "Hmmm. Well I really don't remember a single thing except waking up in a warm bed and being treated with loving care and then witnessing my fellow soldiers come busting in like it was an action movie, but sure, rape sounds good..." I think the entire thing is fabricated. Those Iraqis saved her life and all she and the media can do is trash them. I am sickened more and more as each day passes and Americans stoop to new lows in their perception and portrayal of this war. New lows in general. Not even just with regard to the war...
Why would Iraqi doctors viciously rape a woman who was teetering on the brink of death from a horrendous carwreck where she was the only survivor, and then nurse her back to health? They could have left her for dead. But no. Her rescuers were so eager to have brutal sex with this horribly wounded, mangled girl that they took her to a hospital so that they could further torment her before saving her life?
"We only had a few minutes to save her life. We found a vein in her neck to give her fluids and blood..."
"The thought did not cross my mind. Her injuries were consistent with severe trauma, a car crash, nothing else. Her clothes were not torn, her boots had not been removed. There is no way (she could have been raped)."
Dr. Mahdi Khafazji operated on her fractured right femur. He cleaned her body before surgery and found no signs of sexual assault. "I examined her very carefully," he said at his clinic in Nassiriya's center. "I cleaned her body including her genitalia. She had no sign of raping or sodomizing."
Lynch's wounds were so bad a sexual assault would have killed her, he said. "If she had been raped there is no way she could have survived it. She was fighting for her life, her body was broken. What sort of an animal would even think of that?"
"They attacked the hospital at night. There were explosions outside which broke the windows. The patients were terrified," he said. "The Americans knew the Iraqi military had gone so why they didn't come for her quietly, I don't know."
Hazbar, now hospital director, said he was shocked by the rape allegations. "Who is saying this? In our culture, we protect women," he said. "Everyone was very sympathetic toward her. In our culture it is very unusual -- a woman, a soldier"
And what about her fellow soldiers who are dead? The ones who didn't make it? I feel for everyone out there in Iraq and I don't mean to dismiss her service or valor in the line of duty, but I think that this media circus around her rescue and her movie and her book is an outrage. It seriously undermines the suffering of so many other families who have lost loved ones and the people over there who are losing their lives as we speak. It also paints an ugly picture in people's minds which I think is just one big run-away tale.
Posted by Maria at November 11, 2003 03:31 PM | TrackBackWhat she went through was terrible, any carwreck is...but if she truly has no memory why would anyone want to paint such an ugly picture for her? You have to keep in mind also, she is a young military person, very easily swayed by a commander and so forth. It has been taught to Jessica to never question an order and always show respect, so if some 4 star General tells her she was raped, she'll say "Yes Sir". I understand she is or will be a civilian soon, and maybe with some tlc from her family she'll get to the truth in her own heart, but don't wait for that book to ever be published.
Posted by: sandy at November 11, 2003 04:01 PMI wasn't going to add this, don't want to sound dramatic but there are "good people" everywhere. I was stationed at Al Kharj, in Saudi Arabia, one day I had to pull duty at a guard shack, only to check truckloads coming in and getting manifests logged in, etc. Anyway, my supervisor left me alone so he could go back to the chow hall for our dinner, which was a couple miles away. There I am in the middle of the desert, 20yrs old, no weapon. A jeep full of dark men (middle eastern men, saudis don't work per say) Well, they go into the shack and I hear them talking, see alot of smoke coming out, they're all in there chain smoking) One motions for me to come inside, and don't ask me why but I went in, I was scared to the bone, but was more afraid to say no and insult them. They were sitting cross legged with a brass tea urn, they offered me tea (it was horrible) but I drank and they sat and smiled, nodded their heads and stared at me like I was not from this planet. It seemed like forever till Chris came back but when he did he told me to come out. Long story short, I gave those guys some Marlboro Reds and they gave me the worst case of the shits I've ever had (forgot the rule, don't drink the water) But, they were kind and I really think they wanted to talk to me. Kindness prevails sometimes in the midst of war.
Posted by: sandy at November 11, 2003 04:10 PMThat's a great story Sandy. I'm glad you shared it! :o) I also agree that Jessica Lynch is, for a large part, a victim of other people's input and of the media and I don't think for a second that what she went through was easy. I can't imagine having been in her shoes. But I think that the way her story is being portrayed is way overboard.
Posted by: Maria at November 11, 2003 04:14 PMI bet Jessica is really feeling the "love" from her countrymen right now, but so sad to be used like this. My father in law is a Vietnam Vet and I know they all aren't like this, but he will not discuss it with anyone. My husband said when he was a boy he asked his dad once, "Dad, did you ever kill anybody?" He said his dad got up from the table, went to his bed and cried. People that go through trauma do not need a microphone, Katie Curic at their front door. Time heals wounds, and everyone deals in their own way. If we as Americans want to show support to Jessica, we should leave that girl alone. We should also give proper credit where it is due. We should not be portraying all Iraqis in an evil light, that's like saying the whole southeast coast is a bunch of inbred hillbillys. Jessica is alive because of alot of peoples involvement and she could just have been easily left for dead, I think being taken to a hospital speaks volumes and she obviously was not refused medical attention, what more could we ask of a country that we're at war with?
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Posted by: sandy at November 12, 2003 09:36 PMJust got off the phone w/my momma...she saw the Jessica Lynch interview..my sweet mom was upset that poor Jessica had to lay in the hospital w/out her glasses!!! She actually said, "I bet that poor girl never wears glasses again". I thought it was funny as Fuck!!!!
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