I have been following the story of Pat Tillman the ex-NFL player who was killed by friendly fire in Iraq, They just had a peice about him on Sportscenter and his fellow soldiers said that they were told by the Govt to keep thier mouths shut about it,even though they knew that he wasn't killed by the terrorist and it was friendly fire that killed him. Why couldn't the Govt just tell the truth in the first place..I mean 3 investigations later and we find out they lied to us yet again. I know that propaganda probably played a huge role in it but doesn't it make things alot worse when we find out that it was just a huge coverup? What does everyone else think about this?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A444-2004May29.html
2006-10-16 03:08:08 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
They told them to remain quiet about the fact that they knew he wasn't killed by terrorists and they still went ahead and said that during his funeral. They wanted to use the story as propaganda to get people to sympathize with the cause.
2006-10-16 03:33:01 · update #1
Yeah & none of these officals or chain of command get fired for cover up! The cover up gets covered up & sweeped under the carpet! People should be penalized by jail & hard manual labor etc.
2006-10-16 03:18:23 · answer #1 · answered by bulabate 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Dying by friendly fire is a fact of war. Soldiers know this. I don't think there was anything 'sinister' about wanting others involved to remain quiet --as to not influence or hamper the investigation. Remember Tillman was an NFL star. Of course people would be hungry for details--but to discuss the events before an investigation was complete may have tainted the investigation. The truth is out. It is very sad, but it does not make him any less of a hero--he went willingly and aware of the dangers of war.
2006-10-16 03:24:57 · answer #2 · answered by Cherie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We heard about this a few weeks after he was killed. They are just bringing it up again to hurt the republicans, who already got reemed up the butt for it.
The government only funds the military, it is not the military. The military has its own set of laws, and its own courts. It has Its own commanders that are completly seperate from the elected government, therefore it cannot be said that the government is respondsible for this.
2006-10-16 03:33:39 · answer #3 · answered by Doggzilla 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the militia coated up the actual nature of Tillman's dying because of fact they have been afriad that if the reality have been instructed, help for militia intervention interior the midsection East could fall. i do no longer blame the militia, however, as i'm specific they have been ordered via the Bush administration to deal with issues the way they did. the completed Jessica Lynch debacle become perpetrated for comparable motives--shop the american public confident that we are "kicking butt and taking names," and use the mythical tale of her heroism for jingoistic propaganda benefit. and those of you who're blaming the "liberals" or the "liberal media" for those travesties of certainty, undergo in ideas who become in charge whilst the memories have been instructed, and WHO instructed THEM. The media in simple terms repeated them...and finally questioned them. the unhappy certainty is that the two the liberals and the conservatives are using this conflict for propaganda, and for political benefit...the conservatives are in simple terms greater desirable at it.
2016-10-19 11:58:16 · answer #4 · answered by briscoe 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sad.
2006-10-16 03:19:15 · answer #5 · answered by Mojo Seeker Of Knowlege 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think the gov't has become a joke. Everyone knows this now, except they still beleive we are as stupid as them.
2006-10-16 03:19:14 · answer #6 · answered by tasha 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
What's one more lie to this government?
2006-10-16 03:09:24 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋