Pornographer Says He Has Nude Lynch Photos
By SARA KUGLER


NEW YORK (AP) - Pornographer Larry Flynt claims he bought nude photos of Pfc. Jessica Lynch last month to publish in Hustler magazine, but changed his mind because she is a ``good kid ... and a victim of the Bush administration.''

The photos, which Flynt's publicist says show the undressed Army supply clerk posing with male soldiers, were sold to Flynt last month, according to a statement from Flynt that was read to The Associated Press on Tuesday by his publicist.

The publicist, who would not give her name, said Flynt ``has no plans to use the photos.''

``Jessica Lynch is a good kid, she's not a hypocrite or out to fool anyone,'' Flynt's statement said. ``She's just a victim of the Bush administration, who is using her to justify the war in Iraq and force-feed us a Joan of Arc.''

In an interview with the AP on Tuesday, Lynch declined to comment on any aspect of the matter, including whether such photos exist.

The interview was scheduled to publicize her biography, ``I Am a Soldier, Too: The Jessica Lynch Story,'' which was released Tuesday. It covers the days between March 23, when her 507th Maintenance Company convoy was ambushed in Nasiriyah, Iraq, and April 1, when she was evacuated from a hospital by U.S. commandos.

After her rescue, the young soldier from Palestine, W.Va., was celebrated as a hero prisoner of war.

Published reports Tuesday said the photos showed Lynch topless, but Flynt's publicist claimed the former soldier is nude in the pictures.

``At this point Mr. Flynt has no comment as to the content of the photographs except to say Jessica Lynch is not wearing any clothes in them,'' she said.

Flynt's publicist would not say how much the publisher paid for the pictures, or who sold them.

Flynt has been in a wheelchair since an assassination attempt in 1978. His magazine won a landmark Supreme Court decision in 1988 that held that even pornographic spoofs enjoy First Amendment protection.

looks like she found a good way to market her book ...

Books, movies, magazines... she's getting paid for all her assets...

Soon we'll have a music CD and http://www.jessicaswebcam.com/ on the market, too.

-Rusty

hey, that link doesn't work!!!!

Nope... coming soon to a porn site near you!

Pfc. Jessica Lynch recently was awarded a Bronze Star Medal, a Purple Heart and the POW Medal. The BSM citation reads: "For exemplary courage under fire during combat operations to liberate Iraq, in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Private First Class Lynch's bravery and heart persevered while surviving in the ambush and captivity in An Nasiriya."

A BSM for "bravery" and "surviving in the ambush and captivity"!

The Army's official After-Action Report said she was in a vehicle that crashed while hauling butt trying to escape an enemy ambush. She was knocked unconscious and woke up at a nearby Iraqi hospital receiving special attention from some super-caring Iraqi doctors and nurses.

This was probably the first incident in U.S. military history in which an American soldier was awarded our country's fourth-highest ground-fighting award for being conked out and off the air throughout a fight.

BSMs citing bravery typically read: "Moving his machine gun to a forward vantage point, he covered the advance of the infantry with a heavy volume of effective fire. Repeatedly exposing himself to a devastating small-arms automatic weapons and mortar barrage …. " Or: "(He) voluntarily acted as point man and ... when the platoon was fired upon ... charged the (enemy) position .... Through his courage, determination and devotion to duty, he saved his patrol from suffering casualties and captured a prisoner who later provided important information."

It's no big surprise that I've been bombarded by thousands of angry e-mails from vets protesting this assault on our country's sacred award system.

"She wasn't wounded in action, nor did she do anything to deserve a Bronze Star," writes Arch McNeill. "We have hundreds of valiant soldiers here in the 3rd Division who far more deserve more than she received but in many cases didn't receive anything."

"I'm going to send all my awards back to the president and tell him where he can shove them," says a genuine war hero, Jack Speed, a former Army Raider.

Trust me, the troops – past and present – are unhappy.

So I rang the Pentagon and asked Col. Jeff Keane, "Why the bravery bit?" Finally, when the standard Army propaganda drill wasn't going down, Keane told me, "It was for her bravery in the hospital."

But all this flimflam wasn't Jessica Lynch's doing. She was used right from the first – a frail prop in the Pentagon's public-relations campaign to sell the war to the American people and to encourage their daughters to join up and be heroes.

To keep the truth under wraps, the Army concocted another whopper: "She suffers from amnesia."

A senior officer from V Corps (the unit that eventually awarded her the BSM), who has asked to remain anonymous, comments that there was "tremendous pressure right from the get-go to award Pvt. Lynch a Silver Star. But the high brass here concluded, `There was no evidence of heroism on her part,' and told the pushers to back off."

But when the propagandists conned the highly respected Washington Post into reporting on how Lynch was shot and stabbed but continued to kill Iraqis until her last round was spent, heroic stuff that would make Audie Murphy look like a slacker – which the Post then took several months to correct – other media were fast to pick up the fairy tale, and the Army was besieged by proud Americans demanding that Jessica be awarded the Medal of Honor.

Of course, many of us now know that a high-priced flack in Tommy Frank's headquarters came up with this tall tale and then duped the Post.

According to retired Marine Lt. Col. Roger Charles: "There's nothing they won't stoop to spin. The Army needed a female hero to boost female recruiting and PR efforts, so they went and invented one."

And that's the root of the problem. The elevation of Jessica to Joan of Arc status is to recruit more women, even though thousands of female soldiers couldn't deploy with their units to Iraq because of pregnancy, no sitters for single moms' multiple kids and other problems.

And poor Jessica Lynch has become the unwitting poster girl for an Army of One that's fast becoming an Army of Two – since apparently more than half of the women deployed to Iraq are now pregnant.

Hackworth.com is the address of David Hackworth's home page. Sign in for the free weekly Defending America column at his Web site. Send mail to P.O. Box 11179, Greenwich, CT 06831. His newest book is "Steel My Soldiers' Hearts."

© 2003 David H. Hackworth.

Didn't her weapon jam? Guess they don't stress field stripping and periodic maintenance in the boot camp she attended.....geez, if that was my only protection against the enemy I sure as hell woulda made sure the damn thing worked.....

I've heard about the alleged weapon jam. The M-16 isn't the worlds greatest automatic rifle, but properly maintained (especially the day before entering combat?), it's effective in the desert environment.

Going into combat in a convoy, a soldier typically has a round chambered, and the weapon on SAFE. There are three basic types of failure in the M-16 rifle's firing cycle:

- Failure to feed: round does not come up from the magazine into the chamber. (Round should already have been chambered.)
- Failure to extract: empty cartridge will not eject during firing cycle, usually due to carbon or other debris in bolt carrier. (Again, first round should already have been chambered.)
- Failure to fire: broken firing pin, faulty ammunition or totally siezed trigger mechanism. (Situations are HIGHLY unlikely.)

Besides, if she was knocked out in the accident and captured - how would she have known if her weapon jammed? She was unconcious, and unable to fire.

Reports are she never got a round off. So, was there really a jam? Sounds kind of peculiar, to this professional soldier.

-Rusty

This news story was on the Minot, ND radio station yesterday. Listened to it while at my other house doing some hunting. Basicly same stuff that was posted above, except that the pictures were offered to the Mirror. Sellar wanted $200,000 for them. They said no thanks, no sale.

The radio station also asked why there was no movie deal for the female cook that was injured while in actual combat? You don't hear a thing about her.

My semi auto 30.06 used to jam if I used factory shells. One would fire, but jam on the eject. I solved the problem by hand loading them now. It's amazing what the proper number of grains of powder will do.

I have an AR that jammys #2 every third clip or so. Big dent.

The story is about the guys who get people out of messes.




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anybody ever shot an AUG ? Know where I can get one (either pre or post ban is ok for me)