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To: Brumar89 who wrote (346179)	8/10/2007 1:30:58 AM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1575420

Failure Of Leadership August 9, 2007 Former top-ranking officers at the Defense Department were at a loss for words last week when asked about the lies that surrounded the April 2004 death of Army Ranger Pat Tillman in Afghanistan. Enemy fighters killed Mr. Tillman, a former professional football player, the Pentagon had proclaimed, although there were credible reports from the start that he had been killed by friendly fire. Military officials described Mr. Tillman's battlefront action as heroic. They attempted to turn him into an urban legend, as if he wasn't one already. Only after the Tillman family started asking tough questions about the circumstances of his death did the Pentagon begin investigating. When the harsh truth was found, the Pentagon failed to notify the family in a timely manner. Last week, Donald Rumsfeld testified before a congressional committee that when he was defense secretary, he didn't remember when and who told him the truth about Mr. Tillman's death. But he insisted there was no cover-up and no strategy to create poster heroes for the war. He said he didn't know about the lies people under him had told. Ret. Gen. John Abizaid, former head of the U.S. Central Command, conceded, "It's very difficult to come to grips with how we screwed this thing up, but we screwed this thing up." Similar sentiments were expressed by the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Ret. Gen. Richard Myers, and by the former head of the U.S. Special Forces Command, Ret. Gen. Bryan Douglas Brown. They pointed their finger at Ret. Lt. Gen. Philip Kensinger and several of his underlings, who have been censured for "a failure of leadership." Tillman family members have complained since 2004 of a cover-up that goes all the way to the White House. Perhaps Mr. Rumsfeld was unaware of the true circumstances of Mr. Tillman's death. Even so, the failure of leadership in reporting the Tillman story didn't stop with Gen. Kensinger. Mr. Rumsfeld should have known. Ignorance is no excuse. Remember the story concocted by the Pentagon about Army supply clerk Jessica Lynch? After her capture and rescue in Iraq, military media handlers built her up falsely as an all-American heroine. There's plenty of heroism; it doesn't have to be manufactured. courant.com

To: Brumar89 who wrote (346179)	8/10/2007 1:33:47 AM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1575420

Mike Fish is an investigative reporter for ESPN.com. Hmmmm........an investigative reporter at a sports channel. Very interesting.

To: Brumar89 who wrote (346179)	8/13/2007 3:31:39 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1575420

Idiotic leftwingers claim to know more than the eyewitness at Tillman's side when he died. As if they care. Tillman's just a tool to the left. The Army Ranger who was alongside Pat Tillman when he was shot in Afghanistan told ESPN.com Friday that he remains convinced that the former NFL player was accidentally killed by friendly fire, rather than a target of a malicious act. Sgt. Bryan O'Neal disputed Army doctors who, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press, voiced suspicions shortly after the 2004 incident about the close proximity of the three bullet holes in Tillman's forehead and tried, initially without success, to get authorities to investigate whether the former NFL player's death amounted to a crime. When did Army doctors become leftwingers?