No offense, but the Pentagon's mission does not revolve around setting the Jessica Lynch story straight. If they spent *any* time at all worrying about this stupid self-absorbed moron, I'd be worried about their priorities. We have North Korea, Iran, al Qaeda, the Taliban, Iraq and Afghanistan to worry about, and China and Russia lurking in the background, and the really important thing for the big shots at the Pentagon to focus on is to make sure every knows Jessica Lynch was a lousy soldier, and somebody else was the real hero? I don't think think so.
Well, that simply doesn’t ring true, because they have press conferences and reporters ask questions. They’re *already* spending the time answering these kinds of questions. And they sure did spend a *lot of time* doing that, during the time that it was *news* — and it continued to be news for a significant amount of time. So, the statement that they’re “too busy” with other things belies what actually happened in all these press conferences and questions by reporters. They *were spending time* doing these things...