ROBERT SCHEER Pattern of Deception Persists in Tillman's Death

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http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-scheer14jun14,0,1246392.column?coll=la-home-headlines
ROBERT SCHEER

Pattern of Deception Persists in Tillman's Death


Army's latest statement just doesn't wash.
Robert Scheer

June 14, 2005

On Saturday, Mary Tillman went to a graduation party, corrected essays written by her junior high school students and got the house ready for a visit from her mother. Life goes on, even though the "friendly fire" death in Afghanistan of her famous football-playing son never fully leaves her thoughts.

And how could it? Although Pat Tillman, 27, was shot to death on a mountain pass in Afghanistan on April 22, 2004, his family has been tortured ever since by a pattern of official deception over how he died — killed by U.S. Army machine-gun fire — and why the family was kept in the dark.

That deception has continued with the latest and allegedly definitive government statement. Last week, the Army unconvincingly claimed that the suppression of field reports that Tillman was killed by friendly fire did not amount to an official cover-up but was merely the result of confusing regulations that should be changed — "an administrative error," in the words of Brig. Gen. Vincent Brooks, the head of Army public affairs.





....... That Bush has not acknowledged the controversy over Tillman's death, yet was so quick to invoke Tillman's heroism in the midst of the Abu Ghraib scandal and on the campaign trail, speaks volumes about how politicians exploit soldiers, both the living and the dead.

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They have no shame.

They should experience fragging first hand.