[dilligras]

Try to stay on topic. Dancing around to avoid the issue is pretty transparent.

I have no idea what you're talking about......what issue have I avoided? The non-existant one? The one fabricated wholly out of your politically perverted agenda?

You'll have to be more specific, I'm afraid, as there are far too many of those to pick from.

The facts show that the Pentagon and Bush administration were indeed behind the cover-up and the lies, whether you wish to deny it or not.

The facts show nothing of the kind, and the proof is in your own link, my spindiferously oppugnant messenger of discord.

First, let's address the original source of the misinformation about the action involving Tillman's death:

According to the lefty truthout article linked by ise, one of Tillman's immediate commanders (Lt. Col Ralph Kauzlarich) is responsible for altering the facts and direction of the investigation, perhaps to cover his own culpability.

In this article Goff writes on the events surrounding the fratricidal death of Army Ranger and former NFL player Pat Tillman, and the possible military coverup that ensued. Goff argues that Tillman's commanding officer, in a recent ESPN magazine interview, made a series of shockingly callous statements about the Tillman family's search for the truth because the officer was trying to divert attention from the role he may have played in the alleged coverup.

One should note that Stan Goff is a dyed-in-the-wool lefty, which naturally makes him an unimpeacheable source.

If HE says the cover up started with the field commander, then it must be so. This places the onus of proof for ANY culpability on the part of anyone higher in the chain-of-command squarely upon your shoulders, as they would normally have (and did) simply taken the word of the Lt. Col.'s report until somebody questioned it. To claim otherwise is to display an abiding ignorance of logic and human behavior.

So, unless you have evidence showing that Rumsfeld, Bush, or anyone else in the administration, or even in the Pentagon was responsible for hiding the facts or altering the results of an investigation, then claims of administration malfeasance are to be considered specious, ideologically motivated horse manure.



Now, from your link.

For more than a month, an investigating officer's determination that friendly fire and possible "gross negligence" had led to Tillman's death was buried so that military press releases and a nationally televised memorial service could sell America on the completely false notion that Tillman had died while in a gun battle with Taliban or Al Qaeda irregulars.

Hmmmm..........so when did government start dictating to the TV broadcasters as to their programming of memorial services? I must have been abroad when that started, because I don't remember that executive order.

It is inconceivable that the facts of this publicly revered soldier's death were not transmitted to the top brass at the Pentagon and over to the White House. As Mary Tillman pointed out Monday, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld had written a letter to her son when he enlisted, congratulating him on his patriotic spirit.

This is a statement so ludicrous as to defy justification for its utterance. No doubt, Mr. Goff imagines that a letter of congratulations upon enlisting is proof that Rummy was privy to the wholly self-serving decision of Lt Col. Kauzlarich to phoney up an investigation in order to save his career.

But then, the good Colonel is not the only one with ulterior motive, is he?


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