One of the most “heroic” American war stories to come out of the Iraq War now turns out to be a bunch of lies manufactured in the basement of the Pentagon. On March 23, 2003, Jessica Lynch didn't fight heroically against her Iraqi attackers. One second after the crash of her military vehicle, she was badly wounded, incapacitated and incapable of firing a shot, even if she would have known how to do it. She was saved by Iraqis sympathetic to the plight of a 19-year old girl. The so-called rescue by American forces was an elaborate fraud. Jessica Lynch didn't even have the courage to say that the Pentagon was lying, until now, more than 4 years after the facts. Some kind of heroism...
Pat Tillman was gunned down in Afghanistan by his own buddies, not while putting up a heroic resistance in a Taliban ambush. Telling the truth would have been “a disaster, a brutal truth that the American public would undoubtedly find unacceptable”, his brother Kevin told the U.S. Congress. And so, the Pentagon manufactured another fake story of heroism. (CNN: Soldier: Army ordered me not to tell truth about Tillman)
Lies, lies, lies. That's the stuff the Pentagon is made of. There can never be heroism in aggression. In the eyes of their comrades, some Nazi soldiers certainly performed heroic deeds. That's besides the point. The death of an aggressor is lighter than a feather, the death of a resistance fighter weighs heavier than Mount Taishan, to borrow Mao's wise words.
In the eyes of the Iraqi people, there can never be any American “hero”.
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