Waxman is out to discredit the military and the wartime service of our men and women and he is wiling to dance on Pat Tillman's grave to do it.
Moreover, just what is Waxman hoping to find out about Jessica Lynch? That she wasn't raped? That she wasn't harmed? Just how does that help America?
So as nine dead Americans lie in the sands of Iraq, are the Democrats trying to defeat our enemy by attacking our troops? They are trying to prove that the military lied about these things, ignoring the fact that every war needs heroes, and it's hard to blame the military for stretching the facts and making a hero out of a famous American who died while in harm’s way.
In the case of Jessica Lynch, who willingly admits she did nothing heroic when she was captured -- that she did not go down fighting with her guns ablaze, and who vehemently denies she was a hero -- Waxman gleefully jumped on the military for their deception and celebrated her admission that she was not a hero.
The lie was not that Jessica Lynch was a hero, which she was just by virtue of the fact that she was serving in a war zone in danger of being taken prisoner by the enemy. The lie was the fact that she didn't fire her gun, something that does not make her any less of a hero even if she refuses to admit she was.