http://www.newtotalitarians.com/TheViolationOfJessicaLynch.htmlIt all started with an article in The Washington Post by Susan Schmidt, the resident feminist columnist (along with a male colleague). She quoted an unidentified U.S. official and reported that [10] "Pfc. Jessica Lynch, rescued Tuesday from an Iraqi hospital, fought fiercely and shot several enemy soldiers after Iraqi forces ambushed the Army's 507th Maintenance Company, firing her weapon until she ran out of ammunition...Lynch, a 19-year-old supply clerk, continued firing at Iraqis even after she sustained multiple gunshot wounds and watched several other soldiers in her unit die around her in fighting March 23, one official said...'She was fighting to the death,' the official said. 'She did not want to be taken alive.' Lynch was also stabbed when Iraqi forces closed in on her position, the official said, noting that initial intelligence reports indicated that she had been stabbed to death. No official gave any indication …, however, that Lynch's wounds had been life-threatening."
Although not identifying her sources by name, Schmidt wrote that, "Reports thus far are based on battlefield intelligence [the officials] said, which comes from monitored communications and from Iraqi sources in Nasiriyah whose reliability has yet to be assessed. Pentagon officials said they had heard 'rumors' of Lynch's heroics but had no confirmation." But such cautions did not stop the radical feminist propaganda mill onslaught in the nation's mass newspapers. They simply had to invent a hero image for the tiny soldier in the face of the embarrassing accounts that three females in the 507th had either been captured or killed. Two of these women were single mothers with toddler dependent children. How could America face the fact that the feminists, purely for career and political considerations, were responsible for orphaning these little children by sending their mothers into combat zones where death and capture were their constant companions? How, indeed. The simple defense was to override the dark side of women-in-combat by beating the media drums for the heroic little 'warrior,' Pvt. Jessica Lynch.
