Tillman was a role model, a young, impossibly handsome NFL football player who selflessly put his career on hold to enlist after 9/11. When he was killed in Afghanistan the Iraq War-hungry Administration spun it as a brave death by enemy fire.
Then they stonewalled his family on the truth.
Turns out not only is it obvious at this point that Tillman was killed by friendly fire, but new documents reveal it was at a lot closer range than previously thought:
"The medical evidence did not match up with the scenario as described," a doctor who examined Tillman's body after he was killed on the battlefield in Afghanistan in 2004 told investigators.
The doctors — whose names were blacked out — said the bullet holes were so close together that it appeared the Army Ranger was cut down by an M-16 fired from a mere 10 yards or so away.
The Defense Department launched no criminal investigation. So what else has just come to light:
• In his last words moments before he was killed, Tillman snapped at a panicky comrade under fire to shut up and stop "sniveling."
• Army attorneys sent each other congratulatory e-mails for keeping criminal investigators at bay as the Army conducted an internal friendly-fire investigation that resulted in administrative, or non-criminal, punishments.
• The three-star general who kept the truth about Tillman's death from his family and the public told investigators some 70 times that he had a bad memory and could not recall details of his actions.
• No evidence at all of enemy fire was found at the scene — no one was hit by enemy fire, nor was any government equipment struck.
This is obviously bad for democracy, bad for the military and bad for the republic. But what's starting to get creepy is that it turns out Pat was nothing like the GOP-policy supporting stereotype they fabricated. He was against the move into Iraq, even planning to meet with noted anti-war/anti-imperialism thinker Noam Chomsky and evidently supported John Kerry for President.
So now that it appears to have been friendly fire that killed him, the looming question is whether this was an accident, or was Pat Tillman murdered?
And if he was, and the Administration knew, all the way up to President Bush, aren't they all guilty of covering up the crime?
Is that what this "executive privilege" is all about -- finally a very vivid grounds for impeachment of both Mister Bush and President Cheney?
And while some might even wonder if an order to kill Pat Tillman came from the executive branch, it sure cannot be true.
It just can't.
Can it?
4 comments:
It's an interesting theory, but one that is only supported by the bizarre Bush "executive privilege" move. Would a high-level order to murder a fellow soldier be carried out so clumsily? Then again, look at how imcompetent Nixon's stooges were at Watergate - and that was only breaking and entering, not murder! I suspect the motivations behind the executive privilege trump card have more to do with the inept cover-up, the Repuglican's flag-waving propaganda machine and the all too familiar Bushie incompetence.
It's not clear to me that Tillman was "executed", but questions abound:
1) Who killed Pat Tillman?
2) Why was Pat Tillman killed?
3) Who covered up the Truth?
4) What did the president know and when did he know it?
5) Why does he resort - yet again - to executive privilege?
If Bush has nothing to hide, why does he hide everything?
I have another theory... maybe Bush isn't a Cardinals fan?
When the doctors opened Cheney's chest to juice-up his pacemaker today, one of those little monsters from "Aliens" hopped out.
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