Pat Tillman, Our kind of soldier

[MrScorpio]

comment | posted October 6, 2005 (October 24, 2005 issue)

Pat Tillman, Our Hero

Dave Zirin

"I don't believe it," seethed Ann Coulter.

Her contempt was directed at a September 25 San Francisco Chronicle story reporting that former NFL star and Army Ranger war hero Pat Tillman, who was killed in Afghanistan last year, believed the US war on Iraq was "f***ing illegal" and counted Noam Chomsky among his favorite authors. It must have been quite a moment for Coulter, who upon Tillman's death described him in her inimitably creepy fashion as "an American original--virtuous, pure and masculine like only an American male can be." She tried to discredit the story as San Francisco agitprop, but this approach ran into a slight problem: The article's source was Pat Tillman's mother, Mary.

Mary and the Tillman family are relentlessly pushing for answers to the questions surrounding Pat's death in Afghanistan. They want to know why it took the Pentagon five weeks to tell them he died in a tragic case of friendly fire. They want to know why they were unwitting props at Pat's funeral, weeping while lies were told by eulogizing politicians. Mary is now hoping that a new Pentagon inquiry will bring closure. "There have been so many discrepancies so far that it's hard to know what to believe," she said to the Chronicle. "There are too many murky details."

The rest: http://www.thenation.com/doc/20051024/zirin

[tanyev]

1. Poor, poor Annie.

Please, Ms. Coulter, when your head finally explodes, will you make sure it happens in front of a tv camera? Thank you.

[JimmyJazz]

2. Of course Ann Coulter doesn't believe it.

When has she ever believed the truth?

[underpants]

3. I read about that last week and was pleasantly surprised.

If it is possible his stock actually went UP in my eyes.

Um I hate to mention this but.....you think that some people might not have wanted him coming home and being put in front of a camera???? In front of the NFL crowd especially???

I'm just saying.

Great American. I didn't know he was in IRaq I could have sworn that he was in Afghanistan the whole time. Maybe I remembered that wrong.