Josh Swiller: Who Killed Pat Tillman?.
Of all the scandals and cover-ups perpetuated by Bush and the Neocon army, this could be the worst yet. It has recently come to light that Pat Tillman was killed by three bullets to the forehead. And not just three bullets to the forehead but at close range! That's not friendly fire, that's assassination.
Many facts back up the idea that Tillman's death was a planned out execution. Consider:
[base ']Ä¢ Tillman and his platoon were Special Forces. They had hours and hours of training that regular soldiers did not get. They were trained not to shoot wildly and indiscriminately. Friendly fire is generally wild and indiscriminate. It is not three bullets at close range.
[base ']Ä¢ Tillman's crew was sent, for the first and only time ever on an evening mission. What is the point of an evening mission besides massive chaos? Daylight, you can see what's going on. Night, you can sneak up. Evening, you wander into the sheepherders coming home from the mountain pastures. Why exactly?
[base ']Ä¢ The team's Humvee broke down on the way ... and they were ordered to continue on foot. Again, what was the point? Doesn't a broken down Humvee in the lone road in the valley kind of ruin the element of surprise?
[base ']Ä¢ Tillman was, contrary to the Republican portrayal of him as a reflexive patriot, deeply troubled by the war. In fact, he was overheard speaking out about the Iraq invasion and telling another soldier to vote for Kerry. Tillman's favorite author: none other than Norm Chomsky. A visit with Chomsky was set up for as soon as Tillman returned. It seem most likely he was planning to speak out loudly and publicly against the war when his tour was over.
[base ']Ä¢ Tillman kept an extensive journal since he was 16 and guarded it with his life. Two days after his death, the journal, along with almost all of his other personal affects, disappeared.
[base ']Ä¢ The fiasco of the cover-up around his killing continues to go higher and higher up the ladder ... our president himself has blocked the release of information around the killing, claiming executive privilege.
All this evidence points to the unmistakable conclusion that Tillman was assassinated. If he had come out strongly against the war and Bush policy just a couple of months before the election, it would have been more than enough to tip it over to Kerry. Before this week, I would have disregarded this scenario as pathological ranting. But this week's AP story makes it incontrovertible that something really bad went down. The army's own doctors thought so and sought a criminal investigation. Three bullets, in a tight circle, from ten yards away will do that. Of course, they were turned down.
It's time to really ask who ordered the assassination of Pat Tillman.
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