AP: Gen. Tried to Warn Bush on Tillman

[BuyingThyme]

AP: Gen. Tried to Warn Bush on Tillman

By SCOTT LINDLAW
Associated Press Writer

Just seven days after Pat Tillman's death, a top general warned there were strong indications that it was friendly fire and President Bush might embarrass himself if he said the NFL star-turned-soldier died in an ambush, according to a memo obtained by The Associated Press.

It was not until a month afterward that the Pentagon told the public and grieving family members the truth - that Tillman was mistakenly killed in Afghanistan by his comrades.

The memo reinforces suspicions that the Pentagon was more concerned with sparing officials from embarrassment than with leveling with Tillman's family.

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http://www.houmatoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070330/APA/703303689

[gatorboy]

1. Did Bush publicly promote the ambush story?

[BuyingThyme]

3. I don't think so.

[gatorboy]

4. Still, he apparently knew the real story for some time and kept his mouth shut.

*sigh*

[BuyingThyme]

5. Definitely. And he continues.

This story is beginning to break (about the memo).

I think this is the first among the contents of the Friday news dump.

[hippiechick]

2. Everyone's a potential PR gig or Photo Op for Bushco.

:puke:

[C_U_L8R]

6. Bush knew

that's all that needs to be said.... how much worse does it get???

[BuyingThyme]

7. Welcome to Friday.

[C_U_L8R]

11. Y'know I don't really believe the void of the Friday news dump

is that valid anymore. It seems so last century.
With all our internets, we can just keep the story
going and going and going.

[BuyingThyme]

12. But some of us like to go fishing at about this time of the week.

[C_U_L8R]

13. Oh thanks for the reminder BuyingThyme

need to get offline more :-)

Fishing sounds perfect.

[BuyingThyme]

8. MSNBC just put it up:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17877488/

[malaise]

17. So have you noted this?

The memo was provided to the AP by a government official who requested anonymity because the document was not released as part of the Pentagon's official report into the way the Army brass withheld the truth. McChrystal was the highest-ranking officer accused of wrongdoing in the report, issued earlier this week.
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Who withheld this memo and why? To protect that war criminal Bush?

[BuyingThyme]

9. ABC News up:

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=2996532&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312

[BuyingThyme]

10. Fox Sports up:

http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/6628126?CMP=OTC-K9B140813162&ATT=5

[BuyingThyme]

14. Yahoo News onboard:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070330/ap_on_re_us/tillman_friendly_fire_11

[BuyingThyme]

15. Everybody:

http://news.search.yahoo.com/search/news?p=tillman+bush&c=&n=20&x=wrt

[Ilsa]

16. Bush's* PR was more important than the family's grief.

No wonder Dumbya has a narcississtic personality disorder, if everyone places him first.

What a bunch of shits.