by Mikael Rudolph
www.ImpeachforPeace.org
Wesley Clark on last night’s Countdown by Keith Olbermann on MSNBC discussed some of the questions swirling around newly revealed facts in the death in Afghanistan of former NFL star Pat Tillman:
Yesterday’s article Bullet holes in Pat Tillman raised suspicions about his death, documents show by AP National Writer Martha Mendoza addressed newly-released evidence:
SAN FRANCISCO | Army medical examiners were suspicious about the close proximity of the three bullet holes in Pat Tillman’s forehead, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press.
The examiners tried without success to get authorities to investigate whether the former NFL player’s death in Afghanistan amounted to a crime, the documents show.
“The medical evidence did not match up with the scenario as described,” a doctor who examined Tillman’s body after he was killed on the battlefield in Afghanistan in 2004 told investigators.
The doctors – whose names were blacked out – said the bullet holes were so close together it appeared the Army Ranger was cut down by an M-16 fired from a mere 10 yards or so away.
(AP Article)
So why would the Bush Administration invoke Executive Privilege to cover up the truth behind Tillman’s death?:
There have long been suspicions of Tillman’s death being an intentional silencing of a potential war and Bush Administration critic, as presented in Altermedia’s: Was Hero Pat Tillman Murdered by Neocons? and Prison Planet’s New Evidence Clearly Indicates Pat Tillman Was Executed.
According to wikipedia’s entry on Tillman: “The September 25, 2005 edition of the San Francisco Chronicle newspaper reported that Tillman held views which were critical of the Iraq war and did not support President Bush’s re-election. According to Tillman’s mother, a friend of Tillman had arranged a meeting with Noam Chomsky, to take place after his return from Afghanistan. Chomsky has confirmed this. The article also reported that Tillman urged a soldier in his platoon to vote for John Kerry in the 2004 U.S. Presidential election.”
For an extensive investigative series into Tillman’s death, read THE TILLMAN FILES on fromthewilderness.com.
Finally, it is never too late to read this incredible piece written by Pat’s brother published on the eve of last year’s mid-term elections:
After Pat’s Birthday by Kevin Tillman
Is it an outrageous and ridiculous possibility that Pat Tillman was ordered to be killed by the people who would have the most to lose if he came home and spoke out against them? Only to those who still don’t accept the now indisputable fact that NeoCon lies got us into wars in Afghanistan and Iraq in the first place, leading directly to the deaths of more than 3,000 American soldiers.
What is one more dead soldier to them but a pawn in their tyrannical game of conquest, power and profit?