Pentagon Aims Guns at Lynch Reports
"What is particularly sad in all of this
is that a wonderfully hopeful story was available
to the Pentagon to sell to the eager media:
one in which besieged Iraqi doctors and nurses
bravely cared for – and supplied their own blood to –
a similarly brave young American woman
in a time of madness and violence.
Instead, eager to turn the war into a morality play
between good and evil, the military used –
if not abused – Lynch to put a heroic spin
on an otherwise sorry tale of unjustified invasion."