The story of Jessica Lynch tells us a lot about us as a society. First off as with any war that's fought, we need heroes. We need people to be heroes for the sake of rallying the troops and calming fears & dissent at home. I can't imagine what it would be like to come home and find such blatant lies about what I did or did not do & such media fanfare.

Rape & war. Time honored tradition of war, eh? Yet if you read the transcript from today's interview you'll see Lynch apologize for being raped.

"You know, just — you know, it happened. It wasn’t my fault."

I know it's unverving to be interviewed on national TV, but she still apologized. What kind of world do we live in that a soldier who was raped (let's assume yes) feels the need to apolgize. I'm not slamming her at all, I'm slamming us. Women who are raped are not weak. Female soldiers who are raped are not weak and it's not a good excuse to get women out of the military.

Lastly, Lynch describes the people in the hospital as caring. Why should we be so damn surprised? Most doctors and nurses do their job cause they want to help people. Why do we assume that a foreign hospital wouldn't treat us with the same dignity as they would someone who looked more like them? Do we really expect an American doctor to let an Iraqi soldier suffer?

The sad answer is most likely, yes.

But doesn't this prove that most wars are begun by idiot leaders, but fought by the average citizen? Muhammad Ali, while refusing to serve in the Vietnam war, said "No Viet Kong ever called me nigger." I've always taken that as they didn't do anything to me, so why should I go and kill them? What did the Iraqi people do to us? What did the Afghani people do to us? The same can be said in terms of medical treatment. If I saw an Iraqi dying, I'd help them be comfortable. Why? Cause I'd expect nothing less from them.