Honesty vs Lies

Jessica Lynch is an attractive lady from West Virginia. She was once a soldier serving with US forces in Iraq. She was under fire and, according to the Great American Dream only surrendered after all her colleagues were killed and she had used up all her own ammunition.
She was rescued by some very brave soldiers, taken back to the US and feted as a heroine. The brave girl who took on the Iraqis, fought them with all her might and - against all odds - survived.
Today she appeared before a Congressional committee to tell the world that she was not a heroine. She apparently hid in her truck and prayed. She obviously felt it was time to bring the truth to the wider world.
I don't blame her. Had I found myself in her position I would have been messing my pants and begging whichever deity who might be listening to save me.
Jessica, now a mother, must have mustered up a great deal of courage to come before the world with her story.
Telling the truth takes all the courage in the world in this age of spin and deceit. Who do these liars think they're kidding - only themselves in the end.
Jessica Lynch is now a true heroine because she told the plain, unvarnished truth.

Women's Lib

For more than 40 years we have been bombarded by the (now old fashioned) term "women's lib" or equality for women. So now women can not only participate in the armed forces but they can go to war instead of just doing administrative jobs. They can learn to shoot and bomb the enemy.
This means that they could also be at risk of being shot and bombed by the enemy. . .
The recent capture and detention of 15 British sailors and marines who may - or may not - have strayed into Iranian waters while on a mission to stop and search suspect cargo vessels has been hyped up even further than it normally would by the British press by the fact that one of their number was a woman.
A mother of a three-year-old daughter, no less.
We were outraged. Undertones of dirty tricks. Who could sink so low as to put such a pure and innocent being as a woman into such a terrible situation?
Now let's get this straight. I am not a chauvinist. I believe that women should have all the opportunities that men have. If they want a way of life that they want they should be given the chances to realise that. Their dreams, hopes and aspirations should be given equal status with that of men. That means they must also make the decisions which lead them to such a career, knowing the risks that are entailed in making those decisions.
So why are the media making so much fuss over the fact that a woman, who happened to be a mother, was captured? We did not get much about whether any of the men captured had children. We were not given much detail of their relationships.
Aren't the media being chauvinistic over this whole episode?
Haven't they thought of the thousands of innocents - women, children and men - who have been killed in the "righteous" war against "evil"?
Bollocks!
Nuff said . . .