Asst Secretary of Defense for Misinformation, Torie Clark and other Pentagonian Luminaries are defending the whole PFC Lynch rescue now. Let's make a single ground rule here: Leave PFC LYNCH out of this mess. She was legitmately a POW, and that's an emotional thing she'll endure no matter the conditions of her capture, and subsequent captivity. That being said, there's not a whit of excuse for the lying and dissemblance of the Pentagram Press Officers who have tried to spin this story of the blond-haired, blue-eyed woman from capture to "rescue". Except perhaps this:

"...a hysterical belch of outrage from the right-wing media, led by Rupert Murdoch's Fox empire, which has already committed a huge book advance to the telling of this mythic tale. A fiery and disingenuous response from the Pentagon, however, was quite a bit more sobering."

Calling the column a "tirade," Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs Victoria Clarke wrote in a letter to The Times that "Scheer's claims are outrageous, patently false and unsupported by the facts."

If those damn, pesky truth-seeking journalists screw up Unka Rupe's chances to make a buck off the war, then it's like in Strangelove, remember the scene where Peter Seller shoots open the Coke Machine and the other guy tells him he's in trouble now, he'll have the Coca-Cola company after him.

And Kubrick thought

he was doing satire.