When PFC Jessica Lynch was captured in Iraq in 2003, the Pentagon portrayed her as a gun-blazing hero who fought until her ammunition ran out. Her dramatic rescue was filmed with night-vision cameras. In reality, Lynch never fired her weapon (it jammed), she was knocked unconscious in a vehicle crash, and the hospital where she was held was unguarded — Iraqi doctors had even tried to return her to US forces. In April 2007, Lynch testified before Congress: 'I am still confused as to why they chose to lie.' The BBC exposed the rescue as military propaganda choreographed for cameras.
The Pentagon fabricated Jessica Lynch's heroic rescue story — she testified to Congress that she was portrayed as 'a little girl Rambo'
“The military created the story of the little girl Rambo from West Virginia. It was not true. They used me to symbolize all this stuff.”
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“Private Lynch fought fiercely and shot several enemy soldiers before her capture. Her rescue was a valid military operation.”
— US Central Command (CENTCOM) · Apr 2003
🙈 They Laughed At Us
“Private Lynch fought fiercely and shot several enemy soldiers before her capture. Her rescue was a valid military operation.”
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