Propaganda
Specialist soldier, Pat Tillman. who was killed in the present war, then promoted to corporal, was a former football player who gave up a large football salary to fight in the war.
He was killed by blunders of his own group while patrolling.
This sort of thing happens in war, sometimes. The mistakes should be corrected and the guilty, if any, punished, in order to avoid it happening often.
The real sad part is that many, many army people, including several senior officers, quickly knew what happened but elected to tell his parents, and us, he was killed by the enemy, and in effect covered up the truth.
Now, first why would so many officers do such a thing? Are our officers trained to make the best of a bad situation so as to fool an already sceptical public at home? Why?
Several enlisted men have already been disciplined or discharged for poor performance--not from covering up, but for killing Tillman accidently.
The whole affair was weird from the git go when Tillman turned down money to fight. He was under the impression, I think, that he would be out in six months and could go ahead and play football again, at much larger salaries, plus books, plus John Wayne movies, maybe. It would only be natural these days to think that. It doesn't take away his courage to join and suffer six months,however.
I am concerned about such officers as Abu Ghraib, Tillman fiasco, and the score of generals who have come and gone in this war with no discernable acceptable results. Yet, all but one (Shinseki) have been awarded promotions and medals and recorded in history as successes and role models.
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