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Subject: undeserving of recognition

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lori

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Date Posted: 11/ 9/03 5:18pm
In reply to: ozboy 's message, "Jessica Lynch is not a hero" on 04/12/03 8:46pm

>Jessica Lynch is a pathetic example of an American soldier. She did nothing heroic while she was in Iraq and has been a whining, sympathy-seeking, war-bashing loud mouth since her return. She has a lot of nerve to bash an administration who so actively sought to save her. Why should we believe her story over the story of the heroes who rescued her? Obviously, she is not without bias and no doubt came from a family of died-in-the-wool democrats.
Even now, they are seeking whatever they can get for free
from the liberal public.

Sick and bloody tired of hearing it! ... now they're
>going to make a TV movie about her.
>
>She is not a hero, she's just very lucky!
>
>She's a member of an invading force, a force that has
>attacked another country without any right, moral or
>otherwise, to do so. First reports said she'd been
>shot and stabbed, we now know that's not true. Typical
>of the US media machine to lie in order to gain
>support for their heinous actions.
>
>It's like those who died in the World Trade Centre.
>They're immediately branded heros - I hate to
>disapoint anyone, but they are not heros either - they
>were victims of religious violence.
>
>The people in the WTC were sitting at their desks when
>a plane flies through the window and kills them...
>this does not a hero make.
>
>A member of an invading force cannot be a hero, only a
>murderer.

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Subject	Author	Date
anti americanism	sean.p.drury	11/ 9/03 6:45pm