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Okay, Pat Tillman's death was
caused, not by Taliban, but "friendly fire." Friendly fire, to
use an entirely appropriate football analogy, is when during the
frenzy a pulling guard backs into his own quarterback and knocks him
down, except the consequences are a good deal more severe than losing
8 yards.
In the history of warfare, the number of deaths
caused by misdirected artillery, battle axe, or hurled rock are,
well, greater than one. Nobody knows. My dad was killed by a
German mortar round at he Bulge,
but who's to say it was German, and not one with USA stamped on
it? Did my mother want to know, do you think? Is Mrs.
Tillman more complete now? Do we really want a homicide investigation
into every battlefield casualty? Can the revelation that
our Unknown Soldiers hated Wilson, or Roosevelt, and wanted to come
home be far behind? Oops, sorry, they were Democrat icons. Never
mind that slip.
During the Vietnam war era, which script anti-American groups like
A.N.S.W.E.R are still refining, Carole Burnett inaugurated that concept
in her role as Peg Mullen in Friendly Fire. I mention this because, in one of those refinements to the script, the left have substituted "fratricide" for "friendly fire." The two are not analogous. Marxist school teachers like Michael I. Niman at Buffalo State U., with the flick of a wrist, have made that transmogrification. Tillman was murdered. Why? Because he was collaborating with Noam Chomsky, another, more famous, hardcore America hating Marxist school teacher.
Here's who Pat Tillman was. An American professional football
player who turned down a multi-million dollar contract extension to
serve his country. He was killed in action. That he, like
everyone who has ever served (me included) questioned the sanity of his
superiors, or the skill of Army cooks, is beside the point. He is a
role model in the truest sense, and any nation that wants to preseve itself requires ideals like this to prevail. That explains the microscopic attention being payed by turds like Nimen.
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Well said.
ReplyDeleteAnd as to the death of your father, you and your family have the heart-felt thanks of a grateful nation.
Thanks Chuck, but as luck would have it we grew up during a period when that went without saying.
ReplyDeleteSo Pat Tillman's death is being used to discourage those considering serving, because they may be killed by their own?
ReplyDeleteBut, the actual target is our nation's military as a whole.
Rodger, you've done it again by presenting further evidence of the idiots America is filled with. These are some very evil individuals, who not only lack a sense of honor within themselves, but have serious contempt for those who possess such virtue. It's damned unnerving. Audrey left for Iraq today, and although she's been deployed before, this time I have an unsettling serious sense of fear. Damn the libs!
*gulp*
ReplyDeleteI read an interview of the widow of the Unknown Soldier. Indeed, she blamed Wilson, who she voted for because "he kept us out of war."
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I confess that I could not avoid thinking of the Tillman parents yesterday, and wonder what solace could be found in the minutia of his death. We know what kind of man he was. What more is worth knowing?
ReplyDeleteI suppose in their position, I'd want to know, but I wouldn't think it important for the world to know, and there is no way in hell that I'd want a pound of flesh from those who mistakenly fired on him, or from those who told me a gallant lie to spare me some pain.
Casca
Skoonj ... the "widow of the UNKNOWN Soldier?" Was her name Anna Anderson?
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