To: csmusaret
Believing the general intended to cover-up for any other reason than to prevent additional pain to the family or the blow to public morale that the death of who many consider a hero would be is to imply that Tillman’s death by friendly fire itself was scandalous.
18 posted on
08/13/2010 2:06:28 PM PDT by
skeeter
To: skeeter
23 posted on
08/13/2010 2:11:01 PM PDT by
csmusaret
(A government that can dictate how much water flows into a toilet is a powerful government indeed.)
To: skeeter; Recovering Ex-hippie; csmusaret
"Lying by a General Officer about the circumstances surrounding the death of one of his soldiers is the scandal here. McChrystal signed a Silver Star citation for Tillman that stated he was killed by hostile fire. He knew that was not true when he signed it, and he participated in the cover up of the truth.Correct. It was untrue, and a fabrication, and stupid.
McChrystal should have been cashiered on the spot. That he was not is beyond scandalous.
Bump.
29 posted on
08/13/2010 2:21:02 PM PDT by
Leisler
("Over time they create a legal system that plunders and a moral code that glorifies it." F. Bastiat)
To: skeeter
“Believing the general intended to cover-up for any other reason than to prevent additional pain to the family or the blow to public morale........was scandalous.”
If it were your son, you’d be ok with being lied to by the General under certain conditions?
36 posted on
08/13/2010 2:35:26 PM PDT by
Kimberly GG
("Path to Citizenship" Amnesty candidates will NOT get my vote! DeMint, 2012)
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