Jessica Lynch: I was raped while a POW

[Bruce S]

Jessica Lynch: I was raped
[size=+1]POW shares brutal details of experience in biography[/size]
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[font=Palatino, Times New Roman, Georgia, Times, serif]By Diana Lynne
[/font]Advance press of former POW Jessica Lynch's biography includes the shocking revelation the 19-year-old Army supply clerk was raped and sodomized by her Iraqi captors.... [/font]

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Hmmm...

There is SO MUCH about this entire Jessica Lynch story that has a particular odor of made up that one has to question EVERYTHING about this story....

 

[Damien Nightbane]

Isn't it funny how this was never mentioned 6 months ago?

 

[Hopeful]

no offense but she wasnt the only POWand she is getting all these publicity, i sense something fishy, (i said no offense so please don't yell at me, thanks)

 

[lunachick]

Actually, I wouldn't be surprised if she had been raped and sodomised. There appears to be some physical evidence of an anal rape, but she remembers nothing about it.

She wasn't treated brutally by everyone she came into contact with, though. Quite the opposite - there were those that treated her with compassion and respect and tried to help her.

Here's the NY Times story where she expresses her dismay at being used as a propoganda tool.

 

[Doctrine1st]

Isn't it funny how this was never mentioned 6 months ago?

Hey now knock it off, inaccuracies only matter if they shed Reagan in a bad light.

 

[BarbB]

I agree lunachick - this is the basis of my objection to having women in the battle, even in support positions. They are much more vulnerable to degrading treatment than men.

 

[lunachick]

I agree lunachick - this is the basis of my objection to having women in the battle, even in support positions. They are much more vulnerable to degrading treatment than men.

I think women can be combatants. Many women are very tough. They have a high pain threshhold and strong minds. Men can also be subjected to a great deal of torture and indignity in war, too.

I'm not trying to play down rape here, but just because men don't generally get raped, doesn't mean they suffer less.

Of course, the ideal is not to have wars...but...

 

[BarbB]

I agree that women are tough enough to be soldiers. I just worry about them in situations like Jessica's. You are right - no problem without war!

 

[lunachick]

I worry about the men, too.

They sacrifice their lives, their sanity, their youth and their humanity for other peoples power and/or money games.

 

[Doctrine1st]

Hate to be a chauvinist but I still open doors for women, and I detest the ideal of them in the battlefields.

 

[lunachick]

Then you are the man I'm going to marry.

 

[burrow_owl]

I dread the clearly-racist backlash this is going to cause. A lot of racist stuff gets sublimated into fear of the colored phallus (sorry - that's the best way I could think of to put it) and irrational terror of rape by non-white people (eg Birth of a Nation). I'd be genuinely surprised if we didn't see concomittant 'we've got to protect our white women from these darky animals' sentiments. With European ideas about Arabs, this kind of thought has quite a long pedigree - the trope of the sexually ravenous and animalistic Turk that steals white women has been around for hundreds of years.

 

[lunachick]

Yeah, as if white American soldiers have never raped women in the history of war.

Rapists come in all colours and all nations. Just like good men do.

 

[burrow_owl]

I think you're missing my point - when whites rape people, you hear about how horrible that person is - when it's a non-white, you'll hear about the race: "those monstrous Arabs" and whatnot.

obviously, this isn't going to come from all quarters, especially in this pretty enlightened day and age, but if you keep your eyes open or listen to redneck AM talk shows, you'll hear what I'm talking about.

 

[revolutio]

I detest the idea of human beings on the battlefield.

I am also pretty disgusted over how sensationalized this whole thing has become for Lynch. Here rescue was dramatized from the beginning. I imagine it must be horribly embarassing for her to have to dwell on this.

 

[burrow_owl]

"I imagine it must be horribly embarassing for her to have to dwell on this."

yeah, no kidding.

 

[lunachick]

I think you're missing my point - when whites rape people, you hear about how horrible that person is - when it's a non-white, you'll hear about the race: "those monstrous Arabs" and whatnot.

obviously, this isn't going to come from all quarters, especially in this pretty enlightened day and age, but if you keep your eyes open or listen to redneck AM talk shows, you'll hear what I'm talking about.

I got your point. Sorry, I didn't make myself very clear, and my post must've appeared to being sarcastic at you. It wasn't meant to be, I had an image in my head of just the very righteous people you are talking about, and that's who I was kinda addressing.

Sorry - it's the wee hours of the night over here. I should really crash, my brain is getting vaguer and vaguer with each passing minute!

 

[TruthTraveler]

I think I heard about this from Coast to Coast am or Alex Jones on the radio. Nothing like a radio show on nothing but Conspiracies. Since most TV shows are ****, I'd rather listen to some radio, watch some TBN, read the Bible...............

Just an other example of the Government/Army telling a LIE.

 

[burrow_owl]

art bell? rules.

 

[TruthTraveler]

George Noory NOW!

I think he is a Christian.

I heard Art Bell was/is/will be making a movie.