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After Pat’s Birthday
Kevin Tillman is Pat Tillman's brother. Kevin and Pat joined the Army as brothers in 2002, and ended up serving together in Afghanistan and Iraq. On April 22, 2004, Pat Tillman, the former NFL football player and atheist, was killed while serving in Iraq.
Kevin, who was discharged from the Army in 2005, has written an incredibly powerful and moving article in anticipation of his brother's birthday coming up on November 6th.
I strongly encourage you all to read the whole thing.
[Kevin Tillman] It is Pat’s birthday on November 6, and elections are the day after. It gets me thinking about a conversation I had with Pat before we joined the military. He spoke about the risks with signing the papers. How once we committed, we were at the mercy of the American leadership and the American people. How we could be thrown in a direction not of our volition. How fighting as a soldier would leave us without a voice… until we get out.
Much has happened since we handed over our voice:
Somehow we were sent to invade a nation because it was a direct threat to the American people, or to the world, or harbored terrorists, or was involved in the September 11 attacks, or received weapons-grade uranium from Niger, or had mobile weapons labs, or WMD, or had a need to be liberated, or we needed to establish a democracy, or stop an insurgency, or stop a civil war we created that can’t be called a civil war even though it is. Something like that.
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Reality bitch slaps the Orwellian image
The media and the media alone is responsible for the horror that is Iraq, the right, the left and the middle were all over it they sold the American people an image and in exchange got front seat dibs on the ride to Baghdad. Fucking comfort foods and duck tape, it was all bullshit then and it is bullshit now
The first few days after Pat was killed the news had folk picturing him on some hill top with his blond hair waving in the wind as he fought off a horde of hostiles sacrificing his life to save the company waking into ambush it was all very gunga dinish and pure Bull shit and they knew it.
The brother is to be commended for having the courage to speak up and set the record straight. P.S. Burton
Democracy?
How about instead of worrying about democracy in iraq, we worry about democracy in the united states. especially since the courts have no powers with the new executive branch powers over "unlawful combatants".