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I don't see where the Reuters article slams anyone. The first article was mere fluff, and Reuters re-wrote it to include everything else surrounding the home coming.
I also don't understand how the US Government has made this out to be something it wasn't. Any hostage resuce in a live combat zone is dramatic - Period. They came in by by air armed with rifles with real bullets right in the middle of a live combat zone. At any moment a Iraqi convoy could have come down the street and broken into a firefight.
Also, your blaming the US Government here, but the press is more at fault. During the war covereage on TV the news stations were looking for anything of interest. Anything slightly interesting was live on TV and they jumped all over it. A resuce attempt - with a woman as a POW - quickly grabs head lines. A single statement by the government saying "Lynch was injured" can be taken a thousand different ways - Maybe she crashed her Hummer, maybe she was shot, maybe she fucking slit her wrists. It was the media that picked up the story and ran with it, while the information was coming out of a combat zone.
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