"The American soldier Jessica Lynch, who was rescued by US special forces after being taken prisoner in Iraq, has signed a $1m book deal with publisher Alfred A Knopf.

I Am a Soldier, Too: The Jessica Lynch Story will be co-written by former New York Times reporter Rick Bragg and detail her journey from rural West Virginia to becoming a national heroine. "

Full story at bbc news

Whew, a national heroine!

You know what? Heroes don't exist. It's a propaganda-lie from the 19th century which still works in the US. As long as you got a hero, nobody is gonna look at the facts, right?

But great power doesn't mean responsibility at all. It simply means being able to fuck with everyone else.

You're just some propaganda bitch, Miss Lynch! You agreed to play a mayor role in that fake rescue-mission Jerry Bruckheimer's cameraguy shot at a hospital in Bhagdad where doctors from Iraq tried to save you after your own people almost shot you.

You probably didn't get it, Miss Lynch. But you're just some small fry from "Rural West Virginia" who has never been anywhere else and you're probably scared to death to go to a foreign country again. Stay at home, eat greasy hamburgers until you die and talk about your High School-years forever. Just leave us alone with "your story". They gave you a shitload of money for "your story" which isn't yours at all because someone in Hollywood made it up. History going down the drain. Miss Lynch, you are part of the problem. Go back to your shitty little village and count your bloody money.

Do you know why they gave you all that money? DO YOU FUCKING UNDERSTAND IT, BITCH? Does it remind you of the smell of napalm at least? Do you remember pain? Do you remember why you went to war? Can you hear the children of Iraq scream at night, Miss Heroine? Does it make you proud to kill for a bunch of rich oil-magnats running out of time?

->On rescuing Private Lynch and forgetting Rachel Corrie by Naomi Klein in "The Guardian ->The Truth About the Saving of Private Jessica Lynch by John Kampfner at Al-Jazeerah.info