Tillman was and is a true patriot. In a war, there are going to be accidents from friendly fire, aircraft accidents, and other related accidents not related to the enemies. That is a fact of life. To think that our “leadership” should know all the facts behind all these cases is rediculous.
Ben is ill-served by those who survive him.
Good God. Now the Tillman family is joining the Jersey Girls in slamming our leaders. It is obvious they are attacking our beloved President. They should be ashamed of themselves. He volunteered. He should have known he could be killed. It really doesn’t matter how he got killed, or who killed him. His widow is just ungrateful.
Modus Operandi of the MSM: if someone believes it and alleges it, regardless of the evidence, and if it makes a conservative or a Republican look bad, we must report it.
Sounds eerily “Jersey Girls” to me...
I agree with his wife that the country does need new leadership but I am not sure how Pat Tillman’s actions have given the rest of his family moral superiority over the rest of the country.
While Pat Tillman was a hero and a man of principal, most of his political principals are the polar opposite of mine own. I am not sure if a family of atheists, Norm Chomsky readers and promoters of the homosexual lifestyle (as per Peter King SI article) are the type of people who should be lecturing the rest of the country about leadership.
I feel conflicted because Pat Tillman embodied many things that I admire but his “reported” politics repulse me.
She is so correct. We now live in a society where no one in positions of authority in any field or institution take responsibility for their decisions.
A leader does, and we have darn few of them.
I don't see this as anti-Bush but as a commentary on the sad state of our society regarding morals, ethics, and keeping the public trust.
It is easy for anyone who hasn’t been there to be critical of casualties from friendly fire. Get over it, it happens. The officers were only trying to ease the blow to his family but it was a mistake and only a mistake on the part of the officers.
Pat Tillman is a true American patriot and hero.
However, if any of the Army leadership decided to give Pat a silver star KNOWING that he was actually killed by friendly fire and covering it up - they should be busted to privates and dishonorably discharged from the U.S. Army.
May God bless Pat Tillman.
I admire Tillman for what he did and am humbled by his sacrifice... but his activist left-wing family has done nothing but work tirelessly to undermine this fight and I’ve had it up to my eyeballs with the whole damn lot of them. There are 3,000+ other families who also paid the ultimate price in this war. Maybe we could hear from them, too, every once in a while.
IN POLITICS, Timing is everything. The timing of this complaint becoming a media topic causes the “rightness” of their complaint to be obscured by the manner in which it is being employed.
If this were not an attack on the White House she would not be welcome to speak on any college campus.