Was Pat Tillman Murdered?

The rightwingers used his death to promote a war that Tillman was vehemently opposed to. And then they found out Pat had been a Democrat, a Kerry supporter, and they dumped him because he was no longer a useful prop. Hannity and Coulter even called his grieving parents liars for saying that Pat loathed the Boy King Cretin and his entourage. Now. there is strong evidence that Pat Tillman may have been murdered.

After an investigation, the government changed the story -- that Tillman was a victim of friendly fire, an honest mistake, because he was mistaken for the enemy. The recent revelations now cast this conclusion into serious doubt. You don't mistake someone from 10 yards away. But, was it murder or negligence? Was this a deliberate homicide?

President Bush is not helping at all. With these new details, and his decision to invoke executive privilege in the Tillman investigation, the president is certainly sending the signal that he has something to hide.

It is inevitable, then, that unless the president comes clean, rumors about Tillman's death will take hold. By stonewalling, there is no way to stop people from wondering, "Was the man the White House used to promote the war ordered to be killed because he was becoming increasingly critical of the war in Iraq?" It was well known that Tillman was critical of the decision to go to war, and had often read and quoted Noam Chomsky. I don't personally believe such a conspiracy to be the case, but until the president comes clean, rumors like that will continue to grow. Every officer knows that if a soldier in their command is killed they must write the family and tell them the truth, for exactly that reason. Why can't the man who sent Pat Tillman to war, and used his death for political gain, have the courage to tell a family what happened to their son?

Why is Bush invoking "Executive privilege", his all-purpose mantra for keeping people from seeing his dirty work? What the hell is going on here?

I want answers. We deserve them. But most of all, Pat's parents deserve them.

WAS PAT TILLMAN MURDERED?