Hero executed for opposing war on terror!

[Rooney gr8]

Pat Tillman, turned down a $3.6M pro football contract, to join the army.
He was so outraged by the events of 911 that he enlisted in the forces and was sent to Iraq with a fanfare of media attention, flagged as the golden boy of the Bush administrations 'war on terror'.

when he got to Iraq he soon learned that, the war was not only immoral but also illegal and spoke out against it.

He was then sent to Afghanistan where he died from friendly fire..
Dubya even made speeches about his bravery and he was awarded the silver star medal.

It would seem he was killed executions stile, by 3 bullets to the forehead from close proximity...

this is a fecking travesty!!

please read the link, it just about somes things up

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-473037/Was-pin-boy-Bushs-War-Terror-assassinated.html

corruption at the highest levels..

 

[Chris H]

Tillman may have been murdered by one or more of his platoon-mates, but he wasn't assassinated.

There is absolutely no evidence supporting assassination. The Daily Mail article offers no evidence of such a plot, absolutely none. Only mentions that some people think that maybe he was asssassinated - even though they too have no evidence - and then propose scenarios for his assassination which are transparently contradictory. There were snipers in the area - maybe three snipers all shooting at once! Sure, except a few paragraphs earlier, an Army medical report is cited saying that he was shot at close range by an M-16. Snipers, last I checked, do not use infantry weapons, and they do not use them from 10 feet away. Otherwise they wouldn't be...you know...snipers.

There's nothing to the assassination angle. Murder is a definite possibility, but assassination is unsupported by any evidence.

 

[Fitzjames]

I tend to agree with Chris H on this.
We are all too prone to conspiracy theories.
Frankly a war zone is an ideal place to murder someone. Fog of War, Friendly fire, etc.
In this case much more likely than an "assassination".

Perhaps the most interesting aspect is that
Success has many fathers and Failure is an Orphan.

Not too open a can of worms on whether Iraq and Afghanistan are "won or lost".
But it seems most people look on it all as a massive screw up and theres a kinda distancing from it all, magnified by Bushs last days in office and Tony B Liar being discredited.

(I see it in the context of David Milliband saying that the words "War on Terror" were badly chosen. He could not have said that 6 months or a year ago).
All these things are part of a re-positioning.

 

[Kaos]

I think its another silly conspiracy. But again it doesnt exactly make the US army look very competent with very friendly fire all over the place.

 

[kennyj]

Sports Illustrated had a lengthy article about the events of Tillman's death a few years ago:

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/magazine/09/05/tillman0911/

 

[ERICSAGOD]

''The US military kill someone with friendly fire''.

I find that hard to be . . . . . oh wait!

 

[holyland red]

Sports Illustrated had a lengthy article about the events of Tillman's death a few years ago:

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/magazine/09/05/tillman0911/

When did you come back from the dead, Ken?

 

[Nistelrooy10]

Sports Illustrated had a lengthy article about the events of Tillman's death a few years ago:

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/magazine/09/05/tillman0911/

great article that

 

[Marching]

Sports Illustrated had a lengthy article about the events of Tillman's death a few years ago:

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/magazine/09/05/tillman0911/

Hope it's not another 2½ years until your next post Jim

 

[Chris H]

I think its another silly conspiracy. But again it doesnt exactly make the US army look very competent with very friendly fire all over the place.

Actually the report points to murder rather than friendly fire, if I read my articles correctly. Friendly fire is accidental, in the course of combat. This seems to have been neither.