Monday, May 23, 2005
Tillman and Lynch
Disusting:
Sounds awfully famililar:
Two examples why you shouldn't believe anything you hear from Rumsfeld's Pentagon.
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WASHINGTON -- The family of former NFL player Pat Tillman says the Army disrespected his memory by lying in its investigation of his death in Afghanistan last year.
In interviews with The Washington Post, the Army Ranger's mother and father said they believe the military and the government created a heroic tale about how their son died to foster a patriotic response across the country.
"Pat had high ideals about the country; that's why he did what he did," Mary Tillman told the Post. "The military let him down. The administration let him down. It was a sign of disrespect. The fact that he was the ultimate team player and he watched his own men kill him is absolutely heartbreaking and tragic. The fact that they lied about it afterward is disgusting."
Sounds awfully famililar:
Former prisoner of war Jessica Lynch said the U.S. military was wrong to manipulate the story of her dramatic rescue and should not have filmed it in the first place.
The 20-year-old private told ABC's Diane Sawyer in a "Primetime" interview to air Tuesday that she was bothered by the military's portrayal of her ordeal.
"They used me as a way to symbolize all this stuff," she said in an excerpt from the interview, posted Friday on the network's Web site.
"It hurt in a way that people would make up stories that they had no truth about," she said.
She also said there was no reason for her rescue from an Iraqi hospital to be filmed. "It's wrong," she said.
Two examples why you shouldn't believe anything you hear from Rumsfeld's Pentagon.
