A Cover-Up as Shameful as Tillman's Death

[nomatrix]

http://www.latimes.com/news/columnists/la-oe-scheer31may31,0,2786034.column?coll=la-home-headlines

A Cover-Up as Shameful as Tillman's Death
Robert Scheer

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"They blew up their poster boy," Tillman's father, Patrick, a San Jose lawyer, told the Washington Post last week. He joined his former wife to demand accountability for the latest military cover-up to happen on Commander in Chief Bush's watch. High-ranking Army officials, he said, told "outright lies."

"After it happened, all the people in positions of authority went out of their way to script this," Tillman said. "They purposely interfered with the investigation …. I think they thought they could control it, and they realized that their recruiting efforts were going to go to hell in a handbasket if the truth about his death got out."

A devastating series of investigations and Post stories has shown that the Army's command structure was eager to cover up the embarrassing truth: that Pat Tillman, who turned down a $3.6-million contract with the Arizona Cardinals to join the Army Rangers after 9/11, was accidentally killed by his fellow Rangers while on patrol in Afghanistan a year ago."

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"In any case, the White House has refrained from making any public apologies for the cover-up. Indeed, Mary Tillman said she was particularly offended that even after the facts were known, Bush exploited her son's death with a message played before an Arizona Cardinal game last fall before the election."

[KitchenWitch]

1. I think it is extremely despicable how they exploited this situation

If I believed in hell, I believe they would be going there!

[Botany]

2. Pat Tillman was a man of honor.

http://www.thousandreasons.org/get_article.php?article_id=58

These punks who exploited him after his death are not worthy of
saying his name.

Pat Tillman :patriot:

[mopaul]

3. exploiting the dead is an old bush vampire family tradition...nazi too

[Q]

4. Those who control the media...

...control the 'truth'.

[twenty4blackbirds]

5. who controls the future...?

* "He who controls the present, controls the past. He who controls the past, controls the future."
* "War is war. The only good human being is a dead one."
* "Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible."
* "To accept civilization as it is practically means accepting decay."
* "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."
* "Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship."
* "What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?"
* "War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil"
* "In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia."
* ""Doublethink" means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them"
* "Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper"

George Orwell quotes (English novelist and essayist, 1903-1950)