Psychoblues
04-01-2007, 07:29 PM
These thugs just can not lie in order to advance their own agendas.
Just seven days after Pat Tillman's death, a top general warned there were strong indications that it was friendly fire and President Bush might embarrass himself if he said the NFL star-turned-soldier died in an ambush, according to a memo obtained by The Associated Press.
It was not until a month afterward that the Pentagon told the public and grieving family members the truth — that Tillman was mistakenly killed in Afghanistan by his comrades. ...
In a memo sent to a four-star general a week after Tillman's April 22, 2004, death, then-Maj. Gen. Stanley McChrystal warned that it was "highly possible" the Army Ranger was killed by friendly fire. McChrystal made it clear his warning should be conveyed to the president.
"I felt that it was essential that you received this information as soon as we detected it in order to preclude any unknowing statements by our country's leaders which might cause public embarrassment if the circumstances of Cpl. Tillman's death become public," McChrystal wrote on April 29, 2004, to Gen. John Abizaid, head of Central Command.
More: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070331/ap_on_re_us/tillman_friendly_fire;_ylt=AvzBQ7qo1DtGnRJujRdV6Ze s0NUE
One thing to misunderstand. Quite another to orchestrate a hero's homecoming and advertise it somehow a "success". The NFL probably appreciated all of it. As a tax-paying and otherwise average American I do not.
Just seven days after Pat Tillman's death, a top general warned there were strong indications that it was friendly fire and President Bush might embarrass himself if he said the NFL star-turned-soldier died in an ambush, according to a memo obtained by The Associated Press.
It was not until a month afterward that the Pentagon told the public and grieving family members the truth — that Tillman was mistakenly killed in Afghanistan by his comrades. ...
In a memo sent to a four-star general a week after Tillman's April 22, 2004, death, then-Maj. Gen. Stanley McChrystal warned that it was "highly possible" the Army Ranger was killed by friendly fire. McChrystal made it clear his warning should be conveyed to the president.
"I felt that it was essential that you received this information as soon as we detected it in order to preclude any unknowing statements by our country's leaders which might cause public embarrassment if the circumstances of Cpl. Tillman's death become public," McChrystal wrote on April 29, 2004, to Gen. John Abizaid, head of Central Command.
More: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070331/ap_on_re_us/tillman_friendly_fire;_ylt=AvzBQ7qo1DtGnRJujRdV6Ze s0NUE
One thing to misunderstand. Quite another to orchestrate a hero's homecoming and advertise it somehow a "success". The NFL probably appreciated all of it. As a tax-paying and otherwise average American I do not.