I could swear I read this title on the boards, but I was unable to find it with a search.
I heard on the radio that a television station is going to have a show called Saving Private Lynch, a documentary on the rescue of Pvt. Lynch and the other POWs. Does anyone know the station (A&E sounds familiar) and the date and time?
Since the subject has been broached, has there been any word on how she was treated by the Iraqis? Was she tortured? Were rubber hoses involved? Electrodes? Reruns of Chico and the Man?
When I first heard about her, I assumed the worst. Who wants to be taken prisoner by a government that employs professional rapists? But I haven’t heard any details about her captivity since.
It aired last night at 9 p.m. on A&E.
Oh, well. “That’s the breaks of Naval warfare,” as dad used to say.
Was it any good?
I saw it and liked it. Damn…didn’t it say the woman had two broken arms, two broken legs, and a broken disc in her back? Gawd. I’ll be interested to see the TV movie when it comes out, in a few short weeks, probably.
It’s bound to be repeated. While there is nothing on A & E’s website, their schedule is likely to change to accomodate a re-airing.
I have a Tivo and it shows upcoming programs. I just went to Search Upcoming and typed in “Saving” and that brought it right up. It’s actually called “Saving POW Lynch” and it’ll be repeated twice.
Wednesday April 30 9:00pm (that’s Central time for me)
Thursday May 1 12:00am
I’m sure it will be repeated more, but Tivo doesn’t usually show anything more than a couple of weeks in advance.
Hold on, I just noticed that the “Saving POW Lynch” was on the Discovery Channel, not A&E, so this must be a different thing and the A&E program hasn’t been sceduled for a repeat yet.
I’m sorry I missed it, but I’ll be watching this other one.
Interesting article on April 16 in The London times. I tried for the URL but since the article is now backdated, you have to go the Times site and enter “Jessica Lynch” in the Search field.
The article goes on to describe events as seen by The Times reporter. Am eager to watch the show to see if any mention is made of a ‘staged operation.’ It will be interesting to sort out the various versions of the war once the dust settles.
I’m quite sure everyone was terrorized, understandably so. The troops had no idea, not really, how much resistance they’d meet or if a civilian or doctor would pull a gun. I’d imagine the training is to be as loud and scary as possible until their mission was complete. A POW has never been rescued in such a situation before, so there were no blueprints on who to trust and how to go about it. They couldn’t exactly count on waltzing in and politely asking for that American POW, please, which might well have been successful. They just train for all possibilities and do the best they can and hope that no one gets hurt.
I’d be the first to jump in and condemn reprehensible behavior by the rescuers, but I’m sure there was a reason for everything done, even if it seems unnatural.
As far as being a “staged operation” - oh duh! How else would it have happened? (Unless they mean that it was all a set up and Jessica was never really a POW and the whole rescue was staged to make the Americans look heroic. They don’t mean that, do they? Otherwise, how do they figure that the American troops KNEW that there were absolutely no “Iraqi forces and Baath leadership” at the hospital?)
The Centcom briefing said no shots were fired in the hospital. I feel it pretty much went down like Equipoise suggests.