Hearing the real story about Jessica Lynch, from Jessica, on how our own troops came close to killing her when the doctor attempted to return her to our lines was almost laughable. The real hero was the Iraqi doctor, for trying to do the right thing - and those in her group that died.
The heroes that rescued her? Yeah, right. Great job there - shooting up a hospital. Doing something that would have been entirely unneccessary had our troops been willing to pay attention to who they were shooting at and killing at the outset.
Pat, now that we know he was killed by friendly fire - does his family have to give back the bogus SilverStar that he was awarded for being shot by accident - by another GI (scared titless, er witless)?
There are real heroes from this war. But, because the war is bogus - those in charge figure no one will mind if they include a few bogus ones as well that are better for propagandic spin.
Today we call all our troops heroes - its like T-ball where everyone gets a medal or trophy at the end of a season regardless of their win-loss records. Not that the men and women that serve our nation at the risk of their lives should not be respected, even honored - but, they're all heroes? Maybe, but only by the standard that those that haven't served are cowards.
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