A few days ago, I posted some thoughts on my blog pertaining to the untimely demise of four of Pfc. Jessica Lynch’s rescuers and colleague. Within the next few days, a few people entered the words “Jessica Lynch rescuers dead” and “Sok Khak Ung Lynch” into some search engines and eventually came to my site. A day later, part of my blog appeared on Bartcop. Within an hour, someone posted it to Democratic Underground. Thirty-six hours and 2084 hits later, this new “conspiracy rumor” has surfaced on crazyass13.com, timnews.com; the Usenet on alt.impeach.bush; and forums for the Guerilla News, Jessica- Lynch.com, Yahoo News, the Soap Spa, and Delphi. (It was also posted on a site that seems to be a hang-out for hooligans.)
Though I was not the only person to conjecture about the death rate of Pfc. Lynch’s rescuers and colleagues, I was apparently the only one whose writing on this subject ended up in a search engine and posted on a few sites. Had I known so many people would read it, I would have spent a little more time composing my suspicions. My blog is a week old and only a few friends and family members (and a few random visitors from Typepad.com) had accessed the site prior to the link on Bartcop. This puts me in an interesting position of being able to watch the spread of a particular piece of information from its inception. Whether this is a short-lived phenomenon or spreads to anything more than a mention or two on a message board is unknown.
I do feel a responsibility to further expound on the reasons I find the deaths suspicious given the attention my words have aroused. Responsibility, schomnsibility. I feel like venting about Bush, and I might as well do it before Caesar attempts to squelch my inalienable human right to do so. A few people have written asking for links, which somehow did not make it into the original post, so I have another excuse to vent again.
WARNING: The author has a habit of lengthy diatribes.
As I type this, my link has spread to a game forum and has been translated into a foreign language. The site is averaging a hit a minute to the Lynch link, but that number is beginning to ebb. Looks like the Democracy Underground folks have moved onto more pressing concerns, but the Bartcop, suprmchaos and crazyass13 folks are still hitting the article. Some of the posters on the forums did not read everything I wrote judging from some of the responses, which range from the unimaginative cliché involving a foil hat to suggestions that the remaining rescuers be warned to watch their backs. Most, however, express the same interest that caused me to write the post in the first place – the statistical anomaly of the deaths of her rescuers. It’s weird. Maybe it really is a coincidence. The problem I have with coincidences is their unnatural frequency in the Bush family.
Note: Beginning of long rant about the Bush family.
Is it just a coincidence that George W. Bush will stand to inherit an obscene fortune from his father’s timely investments in the Carlyle Group, which is profiting handsomely in light of Junior’s military adventuress?
And surely it’s only a coincidence that Neil Bush was to have dinner with Scott Hinckley, brother of the man accused and convicted of attempted assassination of a President, on the same evening as the attempt on Reagan’s life. John Chancellor reported it on NBC Nightly News and then this “coincidence” disappeared into a black void.
From http://www.geocities.com/northstarzone/HINCKLEY.html
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“Neil Bush, a landman for Amoco Oil, told Denver reporters he had met Scott Hinckley at a surprise party at the Bush home January 23, 1981, which was approximately three weeks after the U.S. Department of Energy had begun what was termed a "routine audit" of the books of the Vanderbilt Energy Corporation, the Hinckley oil company.In an incredible coincidence, on the morning of March 30, three representatives of the U.S. Department of Energy told Scott Hinckley, Vanderbilt's vice president of operations, that auditors had uncovered evidence of pricing violations on crude oil sold by the company from 1977 through 1980. The auditors announced that the federal government was considering a penalty of two million dollars. Scott Hinckley reportedly requested "several hours to come up with an explanation" of the serious overcharges. The meeting ended a little more than an hour before John Hinckley Jr. shot President Reagan.
Although John Hinckley Sr. was characterized repeatedly by the national news media as "a strong supporter of President Reagan," no record has been found of contributions to Reagan. To the contrary, in addition to money given to Bush, a fellow Texas oilman, as far back as 1970, the senior Hinckley raised funds for Bush's unsuccessful campaign to wrest the nomination from Reagan. Furthermore, he and Scott Hinckley separately contributed to John Connally in late 1979 when Connally was leading the campaign to stop Reagan from gaining the 1980 presidential nomination. The Bush and Hinckley families, of course, would do better under a Bush presidency than it would under President Reagan. “
It’s just a coincidence that the Bush family and the bin Laden family have a close relationship, though I have to say the Bush family should spend a little more time screening their friends and business clients, given that two members of the bin Laden and Hinckley families stand accused of murder and attempted murder respectively.
And the oil and defense industry links to the Bush family? All just a coincidence, just like the little issue of Bush’s Harken Energy profits. It wasn’t insider trading. It was simply a coincidence that Bush decided to cash out when he did.
I could spend weeks listing the strange coincidences that plague the Bush family, but my emotional health requires me not stop at this point. You see, I do not want to suffer the fate of J.H. Hatfield. Mr. Hatfield wrote a book called “Fortunate Son”, which was published in 1999, eighteen months prior to the “election.” In this well-documented book, he presents evidence that Mr. Born Again Christian had a bit of a coke – that’s cocaine, not Coca-cola - habit in his younger days. The media’s response? Hatfield had served five years in prison, which somehow debunks any accusations against Bush. Poor Mr. Hatfield spent so much time investigating Bush that it became too much to bear and he offed himself while sitting on a toilet. Again this is just a coincidence that the man who could have derailed the Bush nomination committed suicide. After all, there is precedent for Mr. Hatfield’s behavior. Coincidentally (there’s that word again!) both Steve Kangas (Bush detractor and webmaster of Liberalism Resurgent) and Paul Wilcher (working on an investigating the “October Surprise” in which George H.W. Bush is accused of meeting with the Iranians to delay the release of the hostages, thus assuring that Reagan would be elected President) both succumbed to severe depression while researching the activities of the Bush cabal and took their own lives while- coincidentally - sitting on a toilet seat.
It’s just a coincidence, don’t you know?
(For a list of strange deaths associated with the Bush family, check out
http://www.stormtronic.co.uk/9-11/bushmurders.htm.)
(For a list of Bush Family Values, check out http://www.hereinreality.com/familyvalues.html.)
It is the gift of coincidence that every time Bush’s artificially inflated poll numbers start to slide some “terrorist” is arrested or killed in Afghanistan or Iraq for the second or third time. (How many times has the Bush cabal arrested Chemical Ali?)
For those still reading this diatribe, I outlined a few coincidences not only to rightly defame the faux credibility of the Bush cabal, but also as a message to the politically naïve who believe that no matter how evil and corrupt Bush is, he and his associates would never resort to killing their detractors. These deaths are not random accidents. Maybe no one was ever charged with murder, but it does not mean that a death ruled as a suicide was an actual suicide.
All of these “coincidences” are old news, but mentioned because several people will just wave off the deaths as “some silly conspiracy theory.” As opposed to what? That the most corrupt administration in the history of the United States government can continue to defy the laws of averages, physics, aerodynamics, and mathematics? Is this Never Never Land?
Forgive me if I’m a little jaded, but the historical precedents have set the tone for my distrust of the Bush administration and Department of Disinformation, er, I mean Department of Defense. Every day more lies are exposed. The house of cards is crumbling – and that is what makes the Jessica Lynch story so interesting. It was presented as the antidote for the national malaise. Her rescue was brilliantly edited and presented as a panacea for the criticism heaped on the US after the initial invasion, a sugar pill designed to keep both government and the markets alive. A few PR shills decided to turn her into a beacon of hope and a shining example of the strength and resolve of an impotent nation.
When the BBC aired its report of the rescue, my first thought was, “I’d sure hate to be Jesica Lynch or part of the rescue team.” I figured the Pentagon would initially back down on its claims, but military flacks insisted the BBC was wrong.
Admittedly, when I first read of the death of Spc. Josh Speer, I already had my suspicions. The following passage caught my eye:
“Dan Eshleman, pastor of Faith Independent Church, said Josh Speer visited him shortly after the attacks. He had a fearful look in his face and didn't answer when asked what was wrong, Eshleman said.”
Hmmm. Jessica “selective amnesia” Lynch has just signed a million dollar book deal, despite the BBC report. How convenient for the Pentagon that Spc Josh Speer perished in an automobile accident.
Except that the attacks meant the WTC and Pentagon, and Speer enlisted shortly after that.
It did get me wonder about the cause of death, though. The initial report indicated he went off a bank, but the Greenville News article stated Speer’s car ran into some trees.
When another rescuer (Petty Officer David Tapper) died in Afghanistan...well, it's Afghanistan and odds are pretty high that troops there will suffer casualties. He was shot in the back during an ambush, according to his family.
This was most likely a true coincidence.
Then came death number three, the strange suicide of Spc. Kyle Williams. He wasn't part of the rescue team, but he was a member of the same company. Visions of Dr. Kelly raced through my head. Even with three deaths, surely it was a coincidence. After all, Spc. Williams wasn't a rescuer, but he was with the 507th. Did he know something?
Still, this could be a strange coincidence. Things happen in threes, right?
Alas, the fourth casualty occurred when Sok Khak Ung, ANOTHER member of Team Saving Jessica Lynch died in a drive-by shooting.
"...Ung also participated in the rescue of Army Pfc. Jessica Lynch. The combat engineer was part of a "diversion force" which attacked the enemy to distract them while a special force unit went into the hospital to rescue Lynch, Lisbon said."
This cannot be a coincidence.
How many folks were involved in the rescue? I had assumed somewhere around thirty.
The fellow from the 507th I don't suspect - there are as many as a couple hundred people in a company. I've served in units like these, and if you are e-4 or below (as are all these people I believe), you know next to nothing except what you are told and kept encapsulated from everything.
With that said - I do believe the entire thing was blown out of proportion, and said as much then. I don't believe the thing was completely staged, but it was certainly a large PR stunt. You could see it in the cameras - it had a basic training "step through the motions" feel about it that you only get when you are pretty damned sure you have nothing serious to fear beyond the next doorway.
Don't know if I buy that any of these folks were killed because of what they knew about the Lynch fiasco though. Occam's Razor : the easiest way to ensure the silence of a military person is to promote them, and the worst way would be to assasinate them while back home in nebulous circumstances.
What I do think is that there were probably over a hundred personnel "involved" with Lynch's "rescue". Since it is (sadly) the largest story of the war, they will all have their day in the papers. Even in fifty years their local paper will expound that they had a role in the rescue.
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