25 April 2007

"knowing what I know...."

Asked by ESPN.com whether the Tillmans' religious beliefs are a factor in the ongoing investigation, [Lt. Col. Ralph] Kauzlarich said, "I think so. There is not a whole lot of trust in the system or faith in the system [by the Tillmans]. So that is my personal opinion, knowing what I know." ESPN.com
What does Kauzlarich know? diddly s***...

Kauzlarich is the Army officer who led the first inquiry into Pat Tillman's death in Afghanistan. The inquiry that didn't reveal that Pat Tillman died from friendly fire.

So this spin is that the inquiry is because the Tillman's are not christian and will never be satisfied because they don't believe in an afterlife!

Mary Tillman, Pat's mother responds:
"Well, this guy makes disparaging remarks about the fact that we're not Christians, and the reason that we can't put Pat to rest is because we're not Christians," Mary Tillman, Pat's mother, said in an interview with ESPN.com. Mary Tillman casts the family as spiritual, though she said it does not believe in many of the fundamental aspects of organized religion.

"Oh, it has nothing to do with the fact that this whole thing is shady," she said sarcastically, "But it is because we are not Christians."
Yesterday, we heard another soldier in Tillman's unit testify before a congressional committee that he was ordered to keep quiet about the nature of the incident.
Committee members heard from Specialist Bryan O’Neal, who was with Corporal Tillman when he died. Specialist O’Neal said he knew immediately that it was American troops that had killed his comrade and that he wanted to tell Kevin Tillman, who was a specialist in the same platoon, right away. But he was barred from doing so, he said, by his battalion commander, Lt. Col. Jeff Bailey.

“I was ordered not to tell him what happened,” he said, explaining that it was made clear that he “would get in trouble.”
New York Times, April 25, 2007
Specialist O'Neal believes that he would not be alive today if it weren't for the actions Pat Tillman took right before he was killed, but he's probably not christian either now....

give me a break...

1 comment:

Brent said...

Everyone involved in this cover up should be deeply ashamed. These army officers let down not only Tillmans family and his memory, but every loyal soldier ever to have served in the army. Their actions are a disgrace. I doubt punishment will ever be forthcoming and that's sad.