Just when you think the radical right (aka as the leadership of the Republican Party) has hit bottom, it digs a g-d damned trench and goes deeper. Now Pat Tillman's mom and dad are being attacked because they have had the temerity to question the circumstances surrounding the death of their sun, the late Pat Tillman, an NFL star who sacrificed millions of dollars to serve his country. He then sacrificed his life in Afghanistan. Pat was a true hero, as fine an American as we have produced. It is a shocking disgrace that his parents are now being abused, but that seems to be how the conservatives in this country operate:
Lt. Col. Ralph Kauzlarich...more than any other single person below the rank of general, [is] probably most responsible for the Pentagon’s embarrassment when NFL-player-turned-Army-Ranger Pat Tillman was killed on April 22, 2004, by his own comrades.
Kauzlarich has been energetically avoiding responsibility for the fratricidal incident ever since.
It appears from reading the documents in the incident the he and others in the military may have violated multiple laws—including obstruction of justice, evidence tampering and conspiracy.
Kauzlarich may have conspired with others to award an inappropriate Silver Star, complete with a phony account of the events surrounding Tillman’s death. Members of Tillman’s chain of command attended Tillman’s memorial service without breathing a word to the family about what really happened, and it appears, again from the documents, that Kauzlarich deep-sixed the original investigation, which he then had redone under his personal supervision.
The Army’s criminal investigation division and the Pentagon’s Inspector General are currently investigating Tillman’s death and the events that ensued.
Kauzlarich now looks to Nov. 7, 2006, with a gnawing disquiet. Only a thin congressional majority that stand between a nemesis like Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) and the chairmanship of the House Judiciary Committee. Subpoena authority might transform a mere gavel into a mighty political weapon. [Emphasis added]
But in the meantime, a recent ESPN.com exposé by Mike Fish aired an interview with Kauzlarich, who was the “cross commander” of the Rangers in Khoust, Afghanistan, in April 2004. Kauzlarich, in a stunning display of Christian empathy, blamed the family for continuing to ask questions about the circumstances of Pat’s death, and suggested that the reason they’d found no closure was that infidels such as themselves (the Tillmans did not belong to a church), when they die, are only “worm dirt.”
“So for their son to die for nothing, and now he is no more,” continued Kauzlarich, “that is pretty hard to get your head around that. So I don’t know how an atheist thinks…. You know what? I don’t think anything will make them happy, quite honestly. I don’t know. Maybe they want to see somebody’s head on a platter. But will that really make them happy? No, because they can’t bring their son back.”
You see, Pat's family is a bunch of dirty non-believers. That's why they want Kauzlarich to answer for his lies and cover-ups. That's Kauzlarich's reasoning, anyway. Absolutely disgusting.
Pat Tillman was opposed to the war in Iraq and he was planning to vote for John Kerry. (When told of this, the despicable Sean Hannity and borderline psychotic Ann Coulter refused to believe it and in effect called Pat's parents liars.) We need to take a stand in defense of Mr. and Mrs. Tillman and in honor of their son--a true American patriot and a model, in my eyes, of what every real man who loves his country should be.
Lt. Col. Ralph Kauzlarich...more than any other single person below the rank of general, [is] probably most responsible for the Pentagon’s embarrassment when NFL-player-turned-Army-Ranger Pat Tillman was killed on April 22, 2004, by his own comrades.
Kauzlarich has been energetically avoiding responsibility for the fratricidal incident ever since.
It appears from reading the documents in the incident the he and others in the military may have violated multiple laws—including obstruction of justice, evidence tampering and conspiracy.
Kauzlarich may have conspired with others to award an inappropriate Silver Star, complete with a phony account of the events surrounding Tillman’s death. Members of Tillman’s chain of command attended Tillman’s memorial service without breathing a word to the family about what really happened, and it appears, again from the documents, that Kauzlarich deep-sixed the original investigation, which he then had redone under his personal supervision.
The Army’s criminal investigation division and the Pentagon’s Inspector General are currently investigating Tillman’s death and the events that ensued.
Kauzlarich now looks to Nov. 7, 2006, with a gnawing disquiet. Only a thin congressional majority that stand between a nemesis like Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) and the chairmanship of the House Judiciary Committee. Subpoena authority might transform a mere gavel into a mighty political weapon. [Emphasis added]
But in the meantime, a recent ESPN.com exposé by Mike Fish aired an interview with Kauzlarich, who was the “cross commander” of the Rangers in Khoust, Afghanistan, in April 2004. Kauzlarich, in a stunning display of Christian empathy, blamed the family for continuing to ask questions about the circumstances of Pat’s death, and suggested that the reason they’d found no closure was that infidels such as themselves (the Tillmans did not belong to a church), when they die, are only “worm dirt.”
“So for their son to die for nothing, and now he is no more,” continued Kauzlarich, “that is pretty hard to get your head around that. So I don’t know how an atheist thinks…. You know what? I don’t think anything will make them happy, quite honestly. I don’t know. Maybe they want to see somebody’s head on a platter. But will that really make them happy? No, because they can’t bring their son back.”
You see, Pat's family is a bunch of dirty non-believers. That's why they want Kauzlarich to answer for his lies and cover-ups. That's Kauzlarich's reasoning, anyway. Absolutely disgusting.
Pat Tillman was opposed to the war in Iraq and he was planning to vote for John Kerry. (When told of this, the despicable Sean Hannity and borderline psychotic Ann Coulter refused to believe it and in effect called Pat's parents liars.) We need to take a stand in defense of Mr. and Mrs. Tillman and in honor of their son--a true American patriot and a model, in my eyes, of what every real man who loves his country should be.
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