Pentagon reveals blunder:
US MARINES RESCUE UGLY
BLACK BROAD BY MISTAKE!

The US military yesterday admitted to a major blunder in the lead-up to the dramatic rescue of American POW Private Jessica Lynch from her Iraqi captors.
The rescue of Pte Lynch on April 1 from the Saddam Hospital in Nasiriyah - now the subject of a soon-to-be-made Hollywood blockbuster movie - nearly didn't succeed after the contingent of US Marines charged with carrying out the rescue mission, initially retrieved the wrong POW.
At a Pentagon news conference yesterday, Colonel Dane Jackiels who led the raid, revealed how a doctor at the army's forward MASH unit had first broken the news that the rescue bid had gone horribly wrong.
Col Jackiels, commander of the United States Marines 55th Airborne Publicity Unit based in White Rock, Alabama, said he was still upset at how he almost let his country down
"We'd retrieved the heavily bandaged POW from the hospital and had brought her safely back behind the lines to our mobile army surgical hospital (MASH)," Col Jackiels said.
"A few minutes later, even before our celebrations could start, a doctor came out of the EOT (emergency operating theatre) shaking his HEAD (head) and saying over and over again: We've made a terrible, terrible mistake.
"I put a hand around his shoulder and said: Doc we'll just have to say she died from injuries inflicted by Saddam's henchmen. It'll still run good on the evening news.
"Then the doc said: No, no, I mean she's black and ugly.
"Then I shouted: You mean she's not Jessica Lynch?
"I raced in and realised straight away what a goddam public relations disaster we had on our hands.
"There was this big fat black chick propped on on the bed. I thought: Goddam, this broad's as ugly as a bucketful of cold grits.
"Jesus, you wouldn't shoot a home movie about this black chick let along stage a major Hollywood production.
"I mean not even Whoopi Goldberg could play her. Maybe James Earl Jones Jnr in drag.
"I knew instinctively that there's no way in the world any newspaper or TV station south of the Mason Dixon Line were going to give this a run.
"Shit, most of the papers I know wouldn't touch this story even if we'd rescued Hale Berry and we'd carried her out upside down and butt naked."
Col Jackiels said his troops had risked their lives a second time to make a dramatic re-entry to Saddam Hospital to return the first POW and rescue Pte Lynch.
Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said the Iraqis who had bandaged both prisoners so that the mixup occurred would be held to account.
"Surely this must be the most flagrant breach of the Geneva Convention ever," he said.