Not Your Sweetie

Saving Pvt. Lynch--a new version (and not pretty)"
 

        


Hell, this doesn't sound like movie of the week material--REWRITE!!!
"THE rescue of Private Jessica Lynch, which inspired America during one of the most difficult
periods of the war, was not the heroic Hollywood story told by the US military, but a staged
operation that terrified patients and victimised the doctors who had struggled to save her life,
according to Iraqi witnesses.
Doctors at al-Nasiriyah general hospital said that the airborne assault had met no resistance and
was carried out a day after all the Iraqi forces and Baath leadership had fled the city.
Four doctors and two patients, one of whom was paralysed and on an intravenous drip, were
bound and handcuffed as American soldiers rampaged through the wards, searching for departed
members of the Saddam regime.
An ambulance driver who tried to carry Private Lynch to the American forces close to the city
was shot at by US troops the day before their mission. Far from winning hearts and minds, the
US operation has angered and hurt doctors who risked their lives treating both Private Lynch and
Iraqi victims of the war. “What the Americans say is like the story of Sinbad the Sailor — it’s a
myth,” said Harith al-Houssona, who saved Private Lynch’s life after she was brought to the
hospital by Iraqi military intelligence."
More at:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,5944-648517,00.html