I just watched The Pat Tillman Story on HBO...

[CoffeeCat]

Ok, this movie should come with a support group.

It's horrendously depressing. The lies. The way the military
used Tillman's death to further their warmongering -- when in fact,
Tillman returned from Iraq completly against the war.

I didn't know that he was involved in the Jessica Lynch theater,
which later proved to be more military theatrics used to
propagate the neocon wet dreams of more war and prolonged war.

Makes you want to hurl a lung.

I was very impressed with the Tillman family. The letter Pat Tillman's
father wrote to the military, after the case was closed, was classic.
Tillman's father signed, "Fuck you and yours" at the end. This obviously
intimidated the military into a new investigation. Yes, it was a whitewash,
but at least Tillman's father spoke truth to power.

I was also struck at how effortlessly our media leverages the slogans and
spun tales for our corrupt government and military. Our media is the PR
arm of these criminals. Hell, they hide soldier deaths, but they turned
Pat Tillman's memorial service into a PR blitz bonanza. They turned his
death into a trade-show venue in which they could market their war.

What bothers me further, is that we don't know why the soldiers kept firing
on Tillman until his head was gone. Two soldiers alongside Tillman lived.
It was as if they went after Tillman on purpose. Also, one of the soldiers
who was next to Tillman when he died said that the entire story about the
behavior of the soldiers who shot at Tillman-was a lie. Those soldiers claimed
that they were shooting from a moving vehicle. This soldier said he specifically
saw the vehicle stopped and shooting at them--at least twice.

Video that shows the vehicle moving appears to be completely concocted. One can't
help but wonder if this wasn't a targeted murder. Unless I missed something, I didn't
see any interviews with those soldiers who were shooting at Tillman. Have they
ever said anything?

This was a difficult one to watch and process. Certainly no new news came from this
documentary. It was just hard to watch and to grasp how corrupt our government
has become.

The Congressional hearings were a farce. Shame on Waxman. They allowed Rumsfeld and
those other generals to get away with obvious lies.

Just another documentary that highlights how psychopathic and sick these criminals are,
and how they escape accountability like slippery reptiles.