Pat Tillman's Mother on McChrystal: I Told You So

[proud2BlibKansan]

Army Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal was forced to retire because of remarks he made to a Rolling Stone reporter. Having read the article that led to his departure, I feel strangely validated. "The Runaway General" described by journalist Michael Hastings is exactly the arrogant individual I believed him to be.

McChrystal was in charge of Joint Special Operations Command in 2004, when my son, Pat, was killed in Afghanistan. But I didn't become aware of him until March 2007. That's when someone anonymously sent an Associated Press reporter a copy of a high-priority correspondence. The memo was written on April 29, 2004, by McChrystal and sent to Gen. John P. Abizaid, Gen. Bryan Douglas Brown and Lt. Gen. Philip R. Kensinger Jr. Its purpose was to warn President George W. Bush and other officials to avoid making public comments about Pat's heroic death at the hands of the enemy, because it was beginning to seem "highly possible that Corporal Tillman was killed by friendly fire."

The memo went on to caution against "unknowing statements by our country's leaders which might cause public embarrassment if the circumstances of Corporal Tillman's death become public."

We knew nothing about this memo at the time it was written. In fact, we did not learn until weeks after Pat's memorial service that it was even possible he was killed by friendly fire.

more ... http://readersupportednews.org/opinion/32-32/2622-pat-tillmans-mother-on-mcchrystal-i-told-you-so

[scarletwoman]

1. k&r

[nosmokes]

2. This shit is *exactly* what should not be countenanced by the flag officer corps of

a supposed democracy.

It's been years(to be kind) since anything coming out of the Pentagon could be taken at any where near face value, and actions/scurrilous deeds like this and outright fabrications from what once was a proud, trusted and respectable organization is now embarassing to watch, at the very least, and certainly a threat to national security, or to the 'homeland.'

[proud2BlibKansan]

5. I just read the Krakauer book on Tillman

My heart goes out to this mother.

[laughingliberal]

3. K & R nt

[Solly Mack]

4. k/r

[sixstrings75]

6. Tillman was fragged. That is all. n/t

[proud2BlibKansan]

9. It was friendly fire

and McChrystal tried to cover it up and claim it was enemy fire.

[OnyxCollie]

7. K&R. nt

[JohnyCanuck]

8. K&R n/t

[Crabby Appleton]

10. k&r