Posted on 09/28/2005 12:21:53 PM PDT by kddid
*lol*
you really are an ignorant one aren't you?
According to San Francisco Examiner, he was there in Iraq with his brother BEFORE going to Afghanistan.
However being critical of Bush for going in Iraq (I was in the beginning) doesn't mean he was pro Kerry.
Here I replied to him not knowing he was already dead.
Well, there was a quote there that said that he was supporting and encouraging others to vote for Kerry.
Again, I stand corrected.....must be getting old.....
hummmmm! Well, she is way to young. LOL
http://www.pattillmanfoundation.net/pat/
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4825949/site/newsweek/
It isn't uncommon for an active duty soldier, or a reservist for that matter, to have rotated in and out of Iraq and Afghanistan.
From all accounts, Pat Tillman was a very thoughtful man whose concept of duty would not preclude him from having opinions that I would not share. It is good to remind ourselves IMHO, from time to time, that there are patriotic, good folks whose politics are not xerox copies of the ones we embrace.
The whole concept of service involves gritting your teeth and performing the mission in a profesional manner no matter what your personal political views are, and that is the way it has to be. Any career military man is very likely going to serve administrations or policies that didn't earn his vote or support, but duty comes first.
"The claim isn't that he was totally anti-war, just that he wanted to fight Al Qaeda in Afghanistan and was opposed to the Iraq war."
A statement that would be familiar to many G.Is during WW2 as to why they were in Europe instead of in the Pacific fighting Japanese Empire who actually attacked us.
Typical GI gripe.
...and thus obtained a result just as useful as any actual response might have been.
"Ann Coulter for the Supreme Court!"
Naw. - - - PRESIDENT!
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yep. so I noticed.
His forcible signing out was the same day.
No doubt...Kevin probably WAS in Iraq. This story is total bs... as made up as anything Mary Mapes could produce.
My father in-law fought in Europe, I remember him telling me what the morale was like when shortly after Germany surrendered, the U.S. troops in theater were told to that they were going to be sent half-way around the world to get ready for the invasion of Japan.
"Welcome to FR ..... signed up 9-28-05"
Trolls lack patience...they need to take a lesson from the sleeper terrorists and wait for a while, like a year at least, before they start trolling. They will get more trolling in that way before they are zotted.
I wouldn't think of trolling DU, having to wade through that sewer would be just too much to bear. DU trolls have it much easier over here.
Yes an UNNAMED source.
As an conservative, I too was very disappointed with Bush at this time and was serching for an alternative. Kerry ,if you remember was running as an experienced "Nam" hero and for a brief moment I thought of him as an better leader than Bush.. However unlike Tillman I had the time to discover what a fraud Kerry really was.
I don'y know what Tillman's politics was. All I know he put everything on the line and served his country.
And that's what really matters.
If that's the case, then I'm joining the "elites"; they're going to have ever so much more fun!
If Pat Tillman actually was a liberal, this is what one of them (Ted Rall) said about him:
"A few days later, on May 3, a cartoon by Ted Rall [12] distributed by Universal Press Syndicate received heavy criticism for portraying Tillman as a misled "idiot" who had enlisted to "kill Arabs". MSNBC.com, one of many organizations subscribed to Universal Press Syndicate, briefly posted the cartoon but pulled it when "MSNBC.com Editor in chief Dean Wright concluded [the] Rall item did not meet MSNBC.com standards of fairness and taste." A year later, in another cartoon dated May 21, 2005, under the titles "Here's where we'll get more troops" and "Reanimate dead soldiers", a drill sergeant shouts to a uniformed living dead, "And duck the friendly fire this time, soldier Zombie." [13]"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Tillman
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