Hackworth: Jessica Lynch is a hero with backbone!

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"Jessica Lynch says she simply wasn’t the GI Jane superstar that desperate White House and Pentagon flacks morphed her into last March when the battle to take Baghdad was briefly bogged down in the desert.



True, Lynch wasn’t the fighting action figure extolled by a gullible press corps that gobbled up the Rove boys’ Pentagon-processed baloney. But the way this little wisp of a girl has stood up to the world’s biggest propaganda machine makes her a hero in my book. Telling the truth had to take at least a bellyful of that tried-and-true West Virginia moral courage.



Lynch’s rescue was right out of the movie “Wag the Dog” – a complex night helicopter raid executed by our best and brightest, who were saddled with and filmed by Pentagon PR camera teams to make absolutely sure that the upbeat, breaking story played on all network and cable news within hours after the dramatic Special Forces coup.



This has to be the low point in the Pentagon’s quest to sell war: Good men’s lives placed at risk for high prime-time ratings and poll-tweaking rather than military necessity.



It’s a sad but true caveat that truth is always the first casualty of war. And these days, lying to cover up training accidents, logistical screw-ups, bad tactical planning, circus-like ops and mind-numbingly dumb senior leadership seems to have become standard operating procedure. The public doesn’t need to know, the rationalizing always goes. Bad news will only demoralize them. And, just incidentally, might not be too good for the perps, either."






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1. During the Clinton years, Hackworth was all over the cable news shows

usually dissing Bill, but now that he is dissing The Chimp, he doesn't seem to be on these shows anymore. Could it be that "liberal media" is ignoring him because they don't want him talking down their manly hero?