Jon Krakauer: McChrystal's Explanation For Pat Tillman Cover-up Is "Preposterous"

[babsbunny]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/01/jon-krakauer-mcchrystals_n_341545.html

Little attention has been paid to Gen. Stanley McChrystal's back-story and his rise to the height of military command of U.S. troops in Afghanistan. Before becoming the voice of gravity and a champion of higher troop levels in the eight-year long war, McChrystal's resume was sullied by a controversy in that same theater: the misclassified death of Pat Tillman.

McChrystal was the head of Special Operations command in Afghanistan during Army Ranger (and former football star) Pat Tillman's death. McChrystal was the one who approved paperwork awarding Tillman a Silver Star despite knowing (or at least suspecting) that he had died in fratricide and not, as originally determined, enemy fire.

[tularetom]

1. I've seldom been as pissed off in my life

As I was when I read Krakauer's book about Pat Tillman. The runaround Tillman's family (including his brother who was yards away when he was killed) got from the Army was nothing short of criminal and McChrystal was in that up to his eyeballs. The man is a careerist and a liar, and he should be in charge of nothing more important than cleaning the latrines at some base in Bumfuck Egypt.

[Ikonoklast]

2. Should be required reading.

McChrystal showed his true colors in that piece. He is nothing but an opportunist that would use lies to bolster his position.

Nothing that man says is believable.

Not an honorable person, no matter what he has accomplished in the past.

[aquart]

3. "Misclassified"?

And that is the current euphemism for what, precisely?