Is Jessica Lynch on our side?

[sasquatch]

I believe she is because she's been speaking against the Bush Crime Family recently. There's a movement to downplay her role in the war by the flying monkey right recently. Remember she's from a traditionaly blue state.

[bhunt70]

1. I voted other.

She was a pawn in the war for the administration who was short on hero's and the press which wanted the big story.

She was in a situation that thrust her into the limelight against her will and seems to be trying to get on with it.

I think she says the things she says ,not out of political loyalty, but because thats what she know (in regards to what happened in Iraq).

Personally, I hope the people left of center don't try and use her as a pawn to show that Bush is wrong. I just hope she can get on with her life.

[tom_paine]

2. I agree with you, bhunt

She is doing what she thinks is right, and making some $$$ to help her family and friends out.

Some of the purists here at DU have taken issue with that...I don't for the most part.

Jessica is on her own side, IMHO, and following the dictates of her own conscience. Which is a lot more than any Bushevik could say.

[Skittles]

19. PURIST????

dear GOD I am NOT A FREAKING PURIST. I just don't happen to see Ms. Lynch with a g.d. HALO on her head. She was SO EASILY BOUGHT.

[Minstrel Boy]

24. And I agree with you, tom_paine,

as I often seem to do.

If we adopted her as "our own," how fast would we turn on her if she said something we wish she hadn't? Unless she adopts us, we should leave her to fight her own battles, and get on with our own.

[WatchWhatISay]

3. No, But

She's not ONEOFTHEM either

[Eric J in MN]

4. I voted other, too

I don't know if she's a Republican or a Democrat.

She was in pain in the hospital and in pain as US soldiers carried her out of the hospital.

She isn't thrilled about a videotape being made of the latter and edited as propoganda.

[Fuzz]

5. Just wanted to say that my neighbor's uncle was Lombardi

and actually gave her away at her wedding. This was the year just as he got the Green Bay job. My neighbor shared this story with me a couple months ago. Thought it was neat. It started when I asked him about his Green Bay sweatshirt, which was odd in New Jersey. :)

[Bucky]

6. I dunno. We should be on HER side: a loyal soldier & a great American.

I wouldn't have been mad at her if she'd bought into the Machine's hyping of her story and gone for the gold. I mean, she's still going for the gold, but she's being honest about it. God bless her.

But instead, she came out and gave credit where credit's due and has spoken nothing but truth despite all the pressure she's certainly under. That's uncommon courage. Even if she, I dunno, endorses Bush for reelection, I'll still stand up for her.

Illegal, immoral war aside, she took a broken leg for America and did it with honor. If she really did get sexually assaulted, she got assaulted for her country. Any American treating her contempt is a jerk and a bad citizen.

[tom_paine]

12. Yo, Bucky, I agree with you totally!

Color me shocked...

:evilgrin:

tom_paine
USAF Vet 1983-1987

[hedgetrimmer]

15. she is being that which we are, an american... a citizen ... a soldier

she did not come into the lime light she was put there by those who wanted to claim her as political capital...

the truth of what we believe is america by way of understanding what is taught in schools and understood by the mass of us citizens is what jessica lynch stands for...

the non-american right attempts to use by waving "patriot" to control the direction of the people of america and jessica lynch is saying that what has happened is not america, not the america she believed she went to iraq to defend... she is setting course for the america she was taught about, had defended, lived and believed in...

and in that i stand with her... for the america of freedom, fairness, truth, justice and the american way...

[Dr Satan]

7. other

She is not on our side, she is on Jessica Lynch side.
I see her on every tv show every day. Money and fame is all she cares about.

[bhunt70]

8. not trying to start a fight just get clarification...

but do you begrudge her that?

[JI7]

10. well

first of all her family doesn't have much money so i have no problem with her book deal. and she doesn't make the decision to be on every tv show. the tv shows do that themselves. if she only cared about money and fame then she would have gone along with the lies about how heroic she was and was able to shoot many bad guys while being shot herself and all the other crap. but instead of that shit, she defended the good iraqi people who saved her. she told the truth.

[tom_paine]

13. DrSatan, pardon me, but I think you have your head in a warm, dark place

I must strongly disagree.

Agent provocaeur or just pigheaded?

[JI7]

9. i say "other"

she isn't on our side in the sense that she has a mission to bring down bush or anything like that. i think she is just someone who did what she felt was the right thing to do. she is also proud of being an american soldier which many on here have a problem with along her her making money from the book and maybe some other ways. but she comes from a family without much so i have no problem with that. i think she felt used by the bush people. and i think her family most likely leans democratic because of their fiscal situation and as was mentioned it's a mostly democratic state but they also aren't anti bush as we are. i think she was just raised well. remember her father told the truth early on about the rumors of his daughter being shot, stabbed etc ? i just think they are a good family.

[Dogmudgeon]

11. She wasn't properly "vetted"

I was never one of the Jessica Lynch "haters" (if there is such a thing). I could see a fake story when I saw one, and it wasn't Jessica who was telling it. Plus, there were little tell-tale signs that she would be a potential "rougue asset".

For instance, her fiance is one of those dark-skinned types that aren't very popular in Texas. She unfailingly backed up her buddies, even the dead ones, when investigators and producers were looking for someone to blame. And as soon as the VA shorted Shoshana Johnson, Lynch spoke right up.

"Our Li'l Jessi" is a self-posessed woman who survived a hell of an ordeal, and who speaks her mind -- not a cute-but-mindless teenage moppet who was brutally ravished by The Hun. I give her a lot of credit for trying to set the record straight, even at the risk of making herself look bad.

In one way at least, her users right. She was supposed to be the Flower of the American Heartland, of pure but simple Christian faith and a devotion to our Wise and Courageous Leader, George Bush. But instead of being the sainted hayseed Team Bush thought she was, she's shown us that she really is made of the best stuff America has to offer.

And for that, the wingnuts hate her.

--bkl

[Selwynn]

14. I don't think she's on anyone's "side" right now...

I think shes just a little girl that never signed on for all this mess. If it were me, it would all be quite overwhelming.

[booley]

16. other

I think she simply may have felt bad about being manuipulated. eventaully the truth will come out and undoubtidly she feels no need to become another's scapegoat when it does.

not so say we shouldn't still support her.

[The Backlash Cometh]

17. Jessica Lynch is following her heart.

She belongs to no party. Which makes her statements more sincere and credible.

[Skittles]

18. she is on her own side

and frankly I am sick of hearing about her

[truthspeaker]

20. she's on her own side (no text)

[zeemike]

21. Other

I think that she is probably one of those that could not identify even one of the democrat candidates and may not have known who was the vice president.
There are many in this country that pay no attention to politics at all.
But I wish here all the best and realize that she was form a poor family and circumstance gave her a shot at getting some for herself and she went for it. But what I like her more for is that she did not sell her soul for the money, she did not lie but told the truth.
Good for you Jessica.

[supernova]

22. Don't know and it doesn't matter

Jessica is Jessica. I'm sorry she got injured. She seems to be recovering well.

What does matter is that she and her family have told the truth about what happened to her. No hype. No CNN crawl line here.

[DinahMoeHum]

23. I don't begrudge her or her family taking the money. . .

She did not choose to be videotaped when she was rescued - outside forces did that without her knowledge or consent. As a result of that and the media hype, her story became worldwide public - again, without her say-so.

Since the cat was already out of the bag, with nearly everybody else making money off this thing, why shouldn't the Lynches get their share?

Their privacy was already violated, so what was wrong with making the BFEE/media hypesters pay for that privilege?


:bounce:

[Silverhair]

25. She is her own person, neither ours or theirs. n/t