“Tillman had very unembedded feelings about the Iraq War. His close friend Army Spec. Russell Baer remembered, ‘I can see it like a movie screen. We were outside of [an Iraqi city] watching as bombs were dropping on the town…. We were talking. And Pat said, “You know, this war is so f***ing illegal.” And we all said, “Yeah.” That’s who he was. He totally was against Bush.'” By way of a friend of mine from high school, The Nation‘s Dave Zirin explains how the Dubya administration’s use of slain NFL safety (and Chomsky fan) Pat Tillman as poster boy for the Iraq war was, like so much else in the lead-up to this conflict, built on lies.
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Just a correction: Tilman was a Cornerback and a Safety. Not a QB. He had an interesting syndrome…he was always around the ball but his hands were stone.
Tillman. Sorry. Spencer Tilman was a running back for the Steelers and Bears in the early 1990’s. My bad.
Oops, corrected. For some reason, I thought he was a backup QB.
Nope. He was a hell of a safety for Arizona State, and a pretty good NFL safety as well with the AZ Cardinals. His career was far too short.
The Lies are coming home to roost like radioactive homing pidgeons. Dubyah’s “political capital” he has spent it all… maybe he can borrow some from the Chinese?
wait, he was outside of an Iraqi city? I thought he was in Afghanistan?
Yeah, I was wondering that myself.