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Quote by: RickSp OK, so your point, stated at such great length, is that I shouldn't have said that the Pentagon started the lies. I should have just said that the military lied. It wasn't the Pentagon that initiated the lies. It was a field commander who started the cover-up. (Pretty typical Bushbot defense. Blame a private or a non-com. If you can't blame them, blame the field commander. Guess that is what you call "supporting the troops.")

[ad hominem]Long as we're bandying labels about, I'd much prefer "Bushbot" to that of TRAITOR[/ad hominem]

Now that we've got that out of the way, let's address a few of your totally unsubstantiated lefty blatherings, shall we?

I believe that the rank of Lt. Colonel is substantially above that of either private or non-com, making your charge entirely bogus, ad hominem CRAPOLA; which doesn't surprise me, given that your history here is ample evidence that you don't know sh!t from SHINOLA.

Of course this is a distinction without a difference. The Pentagon and presumably the Bush administration knew well in advance of the televised memorial service for Tillman that his death was fratricide. The Pentagon continued to cover-up the true nature of his death for a month even though it was known within days that his death was fratricide.

Again, you "presume" that which is not in evidence. Who exactly do you include in this presumable knowledge? Rumsfeld? Cheney? Rove? Bush?

Those are the "usual suspects" in every other phoney, trumped-up allegation of malfeasance brought forward by lefty partisan scumbags whose only agenda is their own long-awaited turn at the feeding trough that is our bureaucracy. If you can't put the blame on the WH, just put the "Plame" on 'em, n'est pas?

This was the real cover-up that you choose to ignore. Abizaid knew before the first fictitious Army press release and before the farcical memorial service. He knew the truth a month before Tillman's parents were told.

Puuuleeeeze. You didn't just link to the WaPo as a source of fact, did you? I must be dreaming. Next, you'll no doubt be seen to proffer the LAT as an authority on what's happening in Iraq, totally oblivious to the fact that they use stringers who are intimidated by al-queda insurgents into foisting their lies onto an eager lefty "insurgency" here at home.

Which is, as the whole planet knows, where the Viet Nam War was "lost", not on the battlefields and jungles of SE Asia..

Coincidence? I think not.