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Title: Late Night: Pat Tillman’s Dad Speaks for Me
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Published: Aug 17, 2010
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Post Date: 2010-08-17 08:50:16 by tom007
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user Late Night: Pat Tillman’s Dad Speaks for Me By: masaccio Friday August 13, 2010 8:00 pm TweetTweet1 Share26 digg stumbleupon General Gary M. Jones, center (Special Operations Command photo) The Huffington Post has a copy of a letter Patrick K. Tillman, father of Pat Tillman and a lawyer, sent to General Gary M. Jones in response to a report issued by General Jones on the killing of his son. Mr. Tillman calls it dishonest and deliberately misleading, and in good lawyerly fashion, supports that conclusion by citing multiple untrue statements. Here is his conclusion: There is no way a man like you, with your intelligence, education, military experience, responsibilities (primarily for difficult situations), and rank (authority – both apparent and real), believes the conclusions reached in the March 31, 2005 Briefing Book. But your signature is on it. I assume, therefore, that you are part of this shameless bullshit. I embarrassed myself by treating you with respect March 31, 2005. I thought your rank deserved it and anticipated something different from the new and improved investigation. I won’t act so hypocritically if we meet again. The Rangers stand for something – to this day, in my mind, the best. None of the five (5) soldiers on the ground, nor anyone in a discretionary capacity involved in the “Briefing Book” deserve to be affiliated with the Rangers. If your uniforms are so decorated, you should remove those items. In sum: Fuck you … and yours. Patrick K. Tillman wants one thing: accountability. Is it too hard for the government to hold accountable the people who killed his son and those who covered it up? Apparently it is. Tom Ashbrook of On Point, the NPR syndicated national talk show, discussed the Robert Gibbs comment on professional leftists. A guy calls in, two tours of duty in Viet Nam, worked in State Government, called himself a moderate Republican, and said that he was disgusted by the failure of the President to hold anyone accountable for torture, not one person. Ashbrook noted that the left had gone silent on this issue, and his guests, including Byron York, couldn’t be bothered discussing it. The Obama Administration, just like the previous crowd, is unwilling to hold anyone accountable for anything. Screw up the financial system? Here’s a few trillion to make it all better. Screw up the regulatory system so the banksters can wreck the financial system? Hey, you’re a great adviser and mentor; let me hire some of your protégés. Can’t find a bubble with both hands? How about re-appointment to the Fed? Hand billions to Goldman Sachs? You’d make a great Treasury Secretary. But. Can’t pay your house mortgage and want to walk away? That’s a moral issue, and you should be held accountable. Pat Tillman’s Dad speaks for me. spotlight Spotlight 116 Comments Tags: Ben Bernanke, Tim Geithner, Late Night FireDogLake, Robert Rubin, Tom Ashbrook, Patrick K. Tillman, Gary M. Jones, Pat Tillman, professional leftist Related Posts * NN10: Van Jones on the Coming of the Orcs July 23, 2010 * Late Night: To Survive 2010, Dems Need to Explain How 2011 Will Be Different July 16, 2010 * Late Night: Obama on the Beach May 28, 2010 * Accountabilitiness August 13, 2010 * Social Security Talking Points For America Speaks June 24, 2010
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This military "Leadership" is a criminal embarrassment to the USA.
"Satan / Cheney in "08" I feel that the real liberals and the real conservatives too have so much to offer in our public efforts to solve problems. but I feel that both of them are pushed aside and suppressed. I think the people in our political systems and in our mass media who may be presented to us as 'liberal' or 'conservative' are in reality fakes. they're muzzled people who voluntarily go along with the powers that be without any real dissent at all. I know I witnessed it in National Review that I used to read cover to cover. In the early 1990's the content of that magazine was completely different from the early 1980's. In the early 1980's you had real conservatives writing the articles. In the early 1990's it was all neo-cons. I am saying that this same thing has happened all through our mass media and our political systems too.
Revelation 6:6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and [see] thou hurt not the oil and the wine.
for me too. I believe that Pat Tillman's mother was on ESPN and strongly implied on that show that her son was murdered by the government. This is a family that I respect.
Revelation 6:6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and [see] thou hurt not the oil and the wine.
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Ashbrook noted that the left had gone silent on this issue,
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Pat Tillman’s Dad speaks for me.
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