Pat Tillman's Brother Wonders How This Happened

Somehow back at home, support for the soldiers meant having a five-year-old kindergartener scribble a picture with crayons and send it overseas, or slapping stickers on cars, or lobbying Congress for an extra pad in a helmet

I am very interested in Ticoyama, Asherman, mysteryman, Baldimo or anyone else who might take a crack at it, telling me what they think about the lies the government manufactured and perpetuated about Pat Tillman and Jessica Lynch. Does it even give you a second of pause or hesitation? Does it create any doubt in you at all about the "official" military stories about Abu Ghraib, or Guantanamo, or the justification for the Iraq War?

Or do you write it off as disgruntled family members, or puppets for the insidious leftwing?

What do those on the right think about the testimony about the elaborate lies they manufactured and sold to the public about their "war heros"?

Kevin Tillman, an antiwar activist who has posted on far-left web sites, denounced the military for deceiving his family about the circumstances of his brother's death:

He might turn the speech into the usual denunciation of traitors and thought-criminals, but that was a little too obvious, while to invent a victory at the front, or some triumph of over-production in the Ninth Three-Year Plan, might complicate the records too much.

What was needed was a piece of pure fantasy. Suddenly there sprang into his mind, ready-made as it were, the image of a certain Comrade Ogilvy, who had recently died in battle, in heroic circumstances. There were occasions when Big Brother devoted his Order for the Day to commemorating some humble, rank-and-file Party member whose life and death he held up as an example worthy to be followed.

Today he should commemorate Comrade Ogilvy. It was true that there was no such person as Comrade Ogilvy, but a few lines of print and a couple of faked photographs would soon bring him into existence.

snood

Your desire and hope for an honest and rational accounting (from those people you've named) of the Pentagon's behavior and the administration's behavior regarding this matter won't be realized

Blatham:

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snood

Your desire and hope for an honest and rational accounting (from those people you've named) of the Pentagon's behavior and the administration's behavior regarding this matter won't be realized

I guess not. But, short of "honest and rational", I thought they might at least have the cojones to make a few gratuitous jingoistic noises. Overestimated 'em, looks like.