The real 'Saving Private Lynch'

Not that the Bush League would lie to us (it's just a matter of emphasis, you know), but there are some doctors an nurses in a certain Iraqi hospital whose recollection of the daring rescue is a little different from what we heard at the time.

Of course you won't hear this story on Fox news or Clear Channel Radio, but you can read it in the Toronto Star:

Branded on to our consciousness by media frenzy, the flawless midnight rescue of 19-year-old Private First Class Jessica Lynch hardly bears repeating even a month after the fact.

Precision teams of U.S. Army Rangers and Navy Seals, acting on intelligence information and supported by four helicopter gunships, ended Lynch's nine-day Iraqi imprisonment in true Rambo style, raising America's spirits when it needed it most.

All Hollywood could ever hope to have in a movie was there in this extraordinary feat of rescue ? except, perhaps, the truth....