Pat Tillman. Remember him? He was the star National Football League defensive back who, after the 9/11 attacks, walked away from his $3.6 million contract with the Arizona Cardinals to enlist as an elite U.S. Army Ranger and go off to Afghanistan to whip some terrorist ass!!! Well, he's back in the headlines, again.
According to the New York Times, ex-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is denying any cover-up for the military's bungled response to Pat Tillman's friendly-fiery death. The former football star was killed in Afghanistan, but he and other former Pentagon leaders insisted that there had been no attempt to cover up the way it happened.
According to his father, "The administration clearly was using this case for its own political reasons. This cover-up started within minutes of Pat's death, and it started at high levels."
I personally think there has been apparent conspiracy to conceal the truth in this case. Is this another case of our corrupt administration? Will we possibly see a real investigation into how Pat Tillman died? And in that case what about how other soldiers have been killed?
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I think there has been a lot of cover-up and scapegoating (to lower level people rather than holding higher level people responsible, for example) in this war, and pretty much in all wars throughout history. War is ugly. Neither country really wins, but the politicians and the corporations and the people in power "win".
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