Before the Jessica Lynch incident in Iraq, did the US goverment deny having women in Iraq?
April 23, 2010 by
Filed under Iraq News
In other words, did the government try to deny the fact that servicewomen are being engaged in combat in Iraq? Did they try to glorify Jessica Lynch’s rescue and cover it up at the same time?
I suspect they’re still trying to deny that women are still being engaged, even though they’re not officially supposed to.
no.
No, there was no denying that there were women going into Iraq.
The U.S. Government never denied that women were actively serving in Iraq. And what you have to understand is that members of the 507th Maintenance Company (Lynch’s unit) were ambushed due to a navigation error; they were not supposed to engage in actual combat with the enemy. U.S. military women are prohibited from combat duties, but this cannot preclude them from taking part in combat when ambushed or attacked in rear-area support roles.
I suggest that you research what I am talking about so that you have a better understanding of the laws of armed conflict concerning women.
Best of luck.
No and no
No the military did not dent women were in Iraq.
No the government didn’t do anything to glorify jessica lynch.
The whole jessica lynch thing started by an obviously false story in the Washington Post newspaper
They wrote a story, supposedly telling exactly what happened during the ambush of the convoy she was in, before anyone had any idea what had happened.
IE: everyone in the convoy was either dead of captured, so no one could know what happened at the time the article was written.
There is no law against women being engaged in combat, that happens all the time.
The law is against women being in combat arms.
You would have to be a complete mental living in a cave your entire life not to know there are women serving all throughout the U.S. Military. Jessica Lynch was not even the first female American POW as I know of at least one from Operation Desert Storm in 1991.
Yeah EVERYBODY knew there were women serving in Iraq.
However, Lynch was with a logistics, not a combat unit. Lynch was captured because her truck convoy took a wrong turn, not because they were looking for a fight.