Perhaps the fact that he was planning to come stateside for a meeting with Noam Chomsky in the months before November’s election, could be the motive behind such a risky act. After all, he wasn’t a typical soldier without access to the media. He was a national hero, with first-hand experience in Afghanistan. But you partisans pretending to be middle-of-the-roaders won’t even show this comment, most likely. Or you’ll demand more evidence than this admittedly-limited speculation. Well, just like my inability to prove how many Democratic votes went unrecorded in Ohio (due to Secretary of State Blackwell and Diebold at. al. not doing a thorough recount, sharing the source code or even preserving any verifiable-evidence for historians) or the White House destroying emails, yet never naming who exactly came up with the list of the fired US attorney’s (clue: Rolly Kove) the theme is always the same. Destroy the evidence and then scream and cry, hoping that the ball-less Dems are afraid to lose their “credibility.” by making the charges publicly and demanding sworn testimony. Sadly, however, the Democrats and even The New York Times, refuse to even mention Tillman’s diary, so its people like Mary Tillman who are forced into a quandary that only triples her already-terrible suffering. Concede its only a case of suppressed friendly-fire (thus ending any chance of a REAL investigation by Congress that puts Rumsfeld’s minions under oath ) or say out loud what they know will be called unobjective and overly emotional. Its bad enough for her to endure what she has had to face from this group of White House criminals. But the Democrats in Congress will always unfortunately settle for the small victory (afraid of the counter-attack on their credibility). Perhaps if they focused on what Princeton’s Prof. Ed Felten, R.S. Magazine’s RFK Jr., and HBO’s documentary “Hacking Democracy” have already demonstrated, the reason why Bush ordered Gonzo to press the grand-total of 88 supposed democratic voter-fraud cases, will be obvious. He wanted to give ammunition to water-carriers like Rush Limbaugh, when the charges of a stolen re-election inevitably were raised in books and magazines. MIT and Johns Hopkins statisticians estimated that the odds Bush got 3 to 5% more than exit polls showed he would in 9 battleground states in 2004 were 40 million to one. But hey, let’s see the evidence, cry the so-called middle-ground smarties. I wonder what you would have said to blast Democratic-leaning skeptics when the missing eighteen minutes of Nixon’s Rosemary Woods’ “accidentally-erased” White House tapes were discovered in 1972.

-Aaron

In short, tell the Tillman family the truth. Anything less is wrong.

It turns out that Tillman was very anti Bush and the Iraq war and that may be why he was killed (fragged) by US troops in Afghanistan.

Yeah, stuff like this only cheapens the argument, but lies do breed these sort of thoughts.

Shrubbie McChimpler

Ha! Never thought I’d hear that from you. Too funny.

Spc. Russell Baer, a soldier pinned down by gunfire on the hillside near Tillman, told the Chronicle that commanding officers were to blame for the friendly fire because they split the platoon and ordered it to leave a secure location in favor of a region known as a Taliban stronghold.

“It was dumb to send us out during daylight,” said Baer, who was honorably discharged from the Rangers earlier this year.

The story is getting a very different spin, however, on the left:

It turns out that Tillman was very anti Bush and the Iraq war and that may be why he was killed (fragged) by US troops in Afghanistan.

Fascinating. And of course if there’s never a scintilla of evidence produced to the effect that that was so, it will just be more proof to numnskulls like the one who wrote that, that it’s because Shrubbie McChimpler with his incompetence/omnipotence, managed to cover it up again.

When you lie to the people, you only strengthen the paranoid.