Comments on: Was Pat Tillman Death Negligent Homicide?

By: legion

legion — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 17:14:29 +0000

Oh, I read it all right. You'll note though that "the family's repeated calls" don't mean squat to the Army IG - this is an internally-driven investigation, not one (as far as I've seen in any article yet) driven by Congressional inquiries, the "liberal media", or the ACLU. The Army is doing this themselves, and I don't think they'd re-hash this unpleasant affair if they didn't have some sort of good reason...

By: LJD

LJD — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 16:53:24 +0000

Did you even read?

the familyâ??s repeated calls for a criminal investigation

Nothing 'smells funny'. It was an accident that was previously 'hushed up' because of the typical media frenzy that would occur over this celebrity. Now we get to see it- yay!. The enemy is laughing their asses off. Pat's Mom will not get 'justice' (there's nothing to get) although she will do her son a great disservice. Hopefully, Mama Sheehan has not found a rally buddy.

By: legion

legion — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 15:35:40 +0000

Oh, and another applicable Murphyism:
Incoming fire has the right-of-way.

By: legion

legion — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 15:34:55 +0000

The definitely smells funny. After all this time, it's quite odd to see an investigation into the event itself rather than, as James notes, the FUBAR'd notification and potential whitewashing afterwards by the Army. Which would make me lean towards Bithead's opinion that this is purely political, except that it's the Army itself that has decided to go ahead with the investigation. If there were some implication that it was triggered by a partisan group or Congressmember, that at least would make sense...

By: Bithead

Bithead — Sun, 05 Mar 2006 18:11:02 +0000

home/whom

By: Bithead

Bithead — Sun, 05 Mar 2006 18:07:58 +0000

You know, back when Tillmen's deaths originally occurred, I went to some links to point out that I was uncomfortable with the amount of attention his death was receiving versus that of Sergeant Joe Lunchpail.

I said at that time;

...I outright refuse to be caught in the trap of regarding the death of this one soldier as being of greater impact than the death of any other. I will not hold the service of this one to be unequal to any other that serves us true.

now, I have to question whether or not this investigation would be extended so were anyone but Tillman involved. It seems to me, that the only people that were really benefit from the senate investigation, are those who have been all along seeking to minimize the contributions of our military, those who didn't agree with our intervention in Iraq, and those to whom who appeasement was the only path to peace.

James, your point about the only provable criminality going on here that can even be conceived of would be following the death of Tillman. We both know, in politics it's not the action it's the covering up of the action that'll get you. Which in turn leads me to think that this entire Re-investigation is politically motivated.

So again, comes the question: Whom does this investigation benefit? The only people that I can see this benefiting, are those seeking to discredit the military. Those seeking to weaken our military. Those also, seeking to discredit its commander in chief.

And, at G., given this looks increasingly politically motivated, home to you suppose that would be?

By: Jonk

Jonk — Sun, 05 Mar 2006 17:10:39 +0000

Good luck getting anyone to volunteer for service if they lock you up for this kind of thing. It is hard enough in combat, but having to second guess everytime you pull the trigger will result in more deaths, not less.

As stated in Murphy's Law of Combat:

Friendly fire...isn't

and

The only thing more accurate than incoming enemy fire is incoming friendly fire.

Yes, the tactical decisions were pretty bad...but if we locked up troops for that, we would not have a fighting force left.

By: Unpartisan.com Political News and Blog Aggregator

Unpartisan.com Political News and Blog Aggregator — Sun, 05 Mar 2006 14:16:07 +0000

Army to Launch Probe Into Tillman Death...

The Army said Saturday it will launch a criminal investigation into the April 2004 death of Pat Till...