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Originally Posted by lustylad
Did the POTUS and the Secy of State and the National Security Advisor all lie about Pat Tillman's death to get re-elected?
Your analogies and comparisons are as limp as your dick.
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They damn sure didn't tell the truth! Did you see the movie or was those soldiers death not worth all this Benghazi hoopla?
https://consortiumnews.com/2010/081710a.html
Tillman was on his second tour of duty when he was killed in Afghanistan — a victim of “fratricide,” inadvertently killed by his own troops during an ill-fated expedition. U.S. leaders should have told the truth — namely, that Corporal Tillman’s death was a senseless accident coupled with incompetence.
Instead they lied — to all of us, but most despicably to his family – rewrote the details of his death, awarding Tillman a posthumous
Silver Star, America’s third-highest military decoration, and turned the tragedy into an opportunity to promote their endless and unpopular wars.
Why did they lie? No doubt it began because at the time of Tillman’s death, in April 2004, the Bush war machine was roiled by a number of negative images that threatened to adversely affect public perception of the war in Iraq.
Remember those haunting photographs and videos of the bodies of American contractors strung up in Fallujah? Can you ever forget the searing images depicting abuse by U.S. soldiers working as guards in the Abu Ghraib prison?
Adding the news the fact that American soldiers had gunned down a celebrated NFL star certainly wouldn’t help the war effort… So Pat Tillman was recast, in death, as a war hero and lesson to us all.
