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🗓️ 1 November 2019
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0:00.0 | Like another, another, another like hint about like why at the very least you should be extremely skeptical of any official account of this, this, this military hit on Baghdadi is like you remember in like the early days of the Iraq war. |
0:14.5 | There was that the famous uh, who's the, the, the Jessica Lynch, the POW soul. |
0:20.2 | Yeah. |
0:20.8 | Yeah. |
0:21.8 | Like they, they, they freed and there was like a night vision. |
0:24.2 | Your own rescue. |
0:25.4 | Yeah. |
0:25.7 | This huge like heroes welcome and they, they said that like she bravely like like fired her gun. |
0:30.9 | Yeah. |
0:31.2 | You know, and like as the attackers as her convoy was you know wiped out. |
0:34.9 | Right. |
0:35.4 | Yeah. |
0:35.9 | Yeah. |
0:36.4 | She emptied her, she emptied her clip. |
0:37.9 | And then they, and then the cops and then the troops like rolled into behind enemy lines to snatch her out of the hospital. |
0:44.3 | Okay. |
0:44.9 | And then shortly thereafter that story was exposed as a complete fabrication that basically is like the, the people who were holding her essentially saved her life and were like fired upon by American soldiers several times. |
0:57.0 | They tried to return her to you know like like help her basically. |
1:01.9 | And then, and then Jessica Lynch herself, you know, I'm sure feeling very ashamed about this horrible thing, this lie that she'd been conscripted in went along with it. |
1:09.7 | Then eventually said like no like no that happened like I can't in good conscience like continue to. |
1:14.5 | Okay. |
1:14.9 | So they, they, they tried, they tried to do that with like actual human beings and cast them in these heroic roles. |
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