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TRUTH WILL OUT

April 25, 2007 -- 6:59 a.m. EDT

Quotes of the Day

"Tales of great heroism were being told. At my parents' home in Wirt County, West Virginia, it was under siege by media all repeating the story of the 'little girl Rambo' from the hills of West Virginia who went down fighting. It was not true. I have repeatedly said when asked that if the stories about me helped inspire our troops and rally a nation, then perhaps there was some good. However, I'm still confused as to why they chose to lie and try to make me a legend when the real heroics of my fellow soldiers that day were legendary," former Iraq prisoner of war and Army Pfc. Jessica Lynch testified yesterday at a congressional hearing on "misleading information from the battlefield. "The bottom line is the American people are capable of determining their own ideals for heroes. And they don't need to be told elaborate lies."

"To our family and friends, it was a devastating loss. To the nation, it was a moment of disorientation. To the military, it was a nightmare. But to others who were in the government, it appears to have been an opportunity," Kevin Tillman, the brother of Army Ranger Pat Tillman, told the hearing, in accusing the Pentagon and the Bush administration of deliberately concealing the circumstances of the former football star's 2004 friendly fire death in Afghanistan in an attempt to shift attention away from the detainee abuses at the U.S.-run Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, as the Los Angeles Times reports.

Breathtaking.

Labels: bushies, criminal morons