Talk:Jessica Lynch

It has been more than 17 years since the start of the Iraq War and the events that made Jessica Lynch a public figure.

It is now known that Lynch’s dramatic rescue from the hospital, and many of the key details surrounding her capture, were fabricated out of whole cloth or embellished by the U.S. Military, which turned her ordeal into a propaganda story that was then disseminated to the media.

Kind of an important detail, no? Unfortunately you won’t learn about it in this article.

So...yet another Wikipedia entry that promotes a highly misleading version of events by omitting crucially relevant details.

It’s almost like Wikipedia’s policies are designed so that it inevitably ends up serving as an amplifier of pro-American/pro-Western establishment points of view. User2346 (talk) 23:08, 26 July 2020 (UTC)

• Really? I see material in the article where Lynch contradicts the story given to the public. So either you're not reading the whole article or you want to convert this to some coatrack about the "propaganda". This is a bio of Lynch, not the media coverage. Niteshift36 (talk) 15:24, 27 July 2020 (UTC)

  Yes, really. Jessica Lynch were given three bags of blood at the hospital. One bag came from the medical staff, who donated their own blood to save her. Jessica was treated better than the Iraqi patients there. There were just two nurses at the hospital. One worked essentially as Jessica's personal nurse.

  Also, the staff at the hospital tried to hand Jessica over to the Americans. They had their hands full even without her. The Iraqi troops had left the hospital two days before the fake rescue.

  "This is a bio of Lynch, not the media coverage."

  But there is no such page. Because there is no such page, it has to be included on this one. The Pentagon lies are the reason this page exists in the first place.

  None of this is on Jessica, of course. This is all on the liars at the Pentagon. And perhaps corporate media. I'm not moralizing here, but if anything, including this is in Jessica's interest. Because it shows that she did not create these lies. I'm not saying she's "innocent." She went to Iraq. But in this particular case, she is. 89.253.73.140 (talk) 11:06, 21 September 2025 (UTC)