Heroes - ignore the real, make some up:

[robbedvoter]

Did you ever wonder why the same media that constructed the Jessica
Lynch hoax wilfully ignores a real act of heroism and credits every two
bit badmouthing source against an authentic hero?
Here's a story not made up by the Pentagon:


http://www.esquire.com/features/articles/2003/030801_mfe_clark_1.html In

"At the end of the
first week we had a tragic accident on Mount Igman, near Sarajevo.
were killed when the French armored
personnel carrier in which they were riding broke through the shoulder
of the road and tumbled several hundred meters down a steep hillside."
It is not until one reads Holbrooke's book, To End a War, that one finds

out that after the APC went off the road, Clark grabbed a rope, anchored

it to a tree stump, and rappelled down the mountainside after it,
despite the gunfire that the explosion of the APC set off, despite the
warnings that the mountainside was heavily mined, despite the rain and
the mud, and despite Holbrooke yelling that he couldn't go. It is not
until one brings the incident up to the general that one finds out that
the burning APC had turned into a kiln, and that Clark stayed with it
and aided in the extraction of the bodies;



I sent this to all those badmouthing Clark yesterday