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partisan to truth Donating Member (158 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-06-04 11:40 AM
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Army Spun Tale Around Ill-Fated Mission

Just days after Pat Tillman died from friendly fire on a desolate ridge in southeastern Afghanistan (news - web sites), the U.S. Army Special Operations Command released a brief account of his last moments.

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It was a stirring tale and fitting eulogy for the Army's most famous volunteer in the war on terrorism, a charismatic former pro football star whose reticence, courage and handsome beret-draped face captured for many Americans the best aspects of the country's post-Sept. 11 character.

It was also a distorted and incomplete narrative, according to dozens of internal Army documents obtained by The Washington Post that describe Tillman's death by fratricide after a chain of botched communications, a misguided order to divide his platoon over the objection of its leader and undisciplined firing by fellow Rangers....

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1802&e=1&u=/washpost/20041206/ts_washpost/a37679_2004dec5
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PROGRESSIVE1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-06-04 11:41 AM
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slor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-06-04 11:47 AM
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2. Has not this whole war in...
both Iraq and Afghanistan, been one big fat tale/lie?
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Tab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-06-04 11:48 AM
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3. DUPE
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1047763
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MountainLaurel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-06-04 11:48 AM
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4. In other words, they LIED n/t
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Moderator DU Moderator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-06-04 11:52 AM
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5. Duplicate topic--Please continue discussion here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1047763
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