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Jessica Lynch Lies
This one is official too - the Jessica Lynch story is a complete and utter fabrication if you bother to ask anyone who was there.
Source: Associate Press, 2003-11-10
Candidate: Big Government
raqi doctors who treated U.S. soldier Jessica Lynch dismissed on Monday allegations made in her biography that she was raped during her capture in Iraq, saying she had the best possible care.
Surgeons who treated Pvt. Lynch after her convoy was attacked near the southern city of Nassiriya in the early days of the U.S.-led invasion in March said they were shocked and hurt by accusations that she was sexually assaulted.
In "I Am a Soldier, Too: The Jessica Lynch Story" published on Tuesday, author Rick Bragg says her medical records indicated Lynch, who was evacuated by helicopter from a Nassiriya hospital in a U.S. commando raid widely publicized throughout the world, had been raped.
"The records also show that she was a victim of anal sexual assault," the authorized biography said. "The records do not tell whether her captors assaulted her almost lifeless, broken body after she was lifted from the wreckage, or if they assaulted her and then broke her bones into splinters until she was almost dead," the book said.
"Jessi's body armor and her bloody uniform were found in a house near the ambush site, the place that some military intelligence sources said she was taken to be tortured. But Jessi remembers none of this. When she awoke in the military hospital, it was during treatment, not torture. When she came to, the cruelties were over," according to the book.
A rocket-propelled grenade attack on Lynch's Humvee military vehicle on March 23 left her with a broken leg, arm and ankle and a gashed head. Eleven soldiers were killed in the attack in which the Humvee crashed into another vehicle.
Dr. Jamal Kadhim Shwail was the first doctor to examine Lynch when she was brought to Nassiriya's military hospital by Iraqi special police. Shwail said Lynch was lying in hospital reception, unconscious and in shock from blood loss.
She was wearing her uniform including a flak jacket, military trousers and boots, none of her clothes had been unbuttoned or removed, as the book claims, he said.
"We only had a few minutes to save her life. We found a vein in her neck to give her fluids and blood," Shwail told Reuters at his home in Nassiriya.
A team of doctors treated Lynch, who was given an anesthetic to allow a six-inch cut to her head to be stitched and her fractures realigned. He said her flak jacket was removed and her clothes were cut away to expose the injured sites. The anesthetist cut away an area around her groin to insert a catheter to drain urine.
"IT PAINS US"
Lynch, now 20, was the same age as his eldest daughter Noor, said Shwail. A copy of People magazine with the soldier's smiling face on the cover lay on the couch beside him.
"She was a woman, young and alone in a strange country," he said. "It was our duty to look after her and we did. Now people are saying she was raped ... it pains us." Shwail said he saw no signs of rape but neither was he looking for them.
"The thought did not cross my mind. Her injuries were consistent with severe trauma, a car crash, nothing else. Her clothes were not torn, her boots had not been removed. There is no way (she could have been raped)."
Shortly afterward Lynch was transferred to Saddam Hospital in Nassiriya, now renamed Nassiriya General.
There, Dr. Mahdi Khafazji operated on her fractured right femur. He cleaned her body before surgery and found no signs of sexual assault. "I examined her very carefully," he said at his clinic in Nassiriya's center. "I cleaned her body including her genitalia. She had no sign of raping or sodomizing."
"ASSAULT WOULD HAVE KILLED HER"
Lynch's wounds were so bad a sexual assault would have killed her, he said. "If she had been raped there is no way she could have survived it. She was fighting for her life, her body was broken. What sort of an animal would even think of that?"
While Lynch was in hospital, Nassiriya was hit by fighting. Hundreds of casualties were treated but a senior medical team looked after Lynch with a female nurse at her bedside, Dr. Khudair al-Hazbar, then deputy director of the hospital, said.
"It was war, but we cared about her and we did everything we could for her," he said. "I spoke to her every day. She was frightened, but polite to us. I know she is grateful"
On April 1, after Iraqi forces deserted the hospital, it was raided by U.S. forces. The event was filmed by the military through a night-vision lens and Lynch was taken away on a stretcher.
"They attacked the hospital at night. There were explosions outside which broke the windows. The patients were terrified," he said. "The Americans knew the Iraqi military had gone so why they didn't come for her quietly, I don't know."
Hazbar, now hospital director, said he was shocked by the rape allegations. "Who is saying this? In our culture, we protect women," he said. "Everyone was very sympathetic toward her. In our culture it is very unusual -- a woman, a soldier."
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User Originated Comments:
From: i agree
2007-05-22 00:00:00
i agree with robbie on what he has said!!!
From: sean
2007-05-22 00:00:00
what i think of the war is that everyone should
get along with eachother and find out if they can
help eachother to fix the problem which is the war
that has been going on for way to long in my mind
and the families that have people in the army.
From: Robbie
2007-04-25 00:00:00
why not just make up more
hypotheticals?
what evidence?
the evidence says that the iraqi
hospital gave them the best possible care and that
prior to that she'd been badly injured during a
live-fire attack -like lots of people in iraq.
from the eyewitenesses at the hospital,
her clothes had not been removed prior to her
arrival and required cutting just to get access to
her severe wounds.
the idea that someone
would be raping a bleeding person is absurd, and
the idea that they could/would do it without
removing her pants is inconceivable.
why
keep making things up?
From: Hmmmm
2007-04-24 00:00:00
if she was indeed incapable of sustaining a
violent rape after such wounds, as the iraqi
doctors claim, and as indeed the american doctors
reported lesions consistent with trauma caused by
anal rape, it stands to reason that the life
threatening wounds could have been inflicted
during or after rape. hardly a recommendation of
iraqi prisoner care. evidence points not to
doctors but to the feydamn fighters that captured
her.
From: Hobbes
2004-03-01 02:49:54
there isn't enough in here to know either way
whether she was rapped. but its a absurd statement
to say that eastern muslim culture "protects
women" while that might be the principle, in
practice its quite the opposite.
"i
cleaned her body including her genitalia. she had
no sign of raping or sodomizing." says the male
doctor. i can't imagine why she would need to be
cleaned from top to bottom like that and if it was
necessary why a female couldn't do
it.
"they attacked the hospital at night.
there were explosions outside which broke the
windows. the patients were terrified," he said.
"the americans knew the iraqi military had gone so
why they didn't come for her quietly, i don't
know."
they couldn't possibly know for
sure if there were any fighters still in the
building.
this whole "report" is very one
sided.
the only way to get an idea of if
she was rapped is one of our doctors examining her
latter for signs. i see no mention of this. of
course days latter it would be harder to
determine.
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