The effort to pervert Pat’s death into a recruiting tool for Bush’s Iraq war isn’t a conspiracy theory – the conspiracy is a fact. It also exposes that no one who served in the Bush White House, gives a damn about the men and women who serve in the military.

Pat Tillman’s heroic and selfless reasons for become a Ranger aren’t typical. Most of the guys in the Rangers, by their own admission, are there because they want to shoot things and blow up things. The kid who killed Pat wasn’t an assassin, he was just an undisciplined soldier who made a massive mistake.

The soldier who killed Pat stated that he just wanted to get into a firefight. By his own admission he shot Pat, nearly decapitated him, just because he was bored and wanted to shoot someone. He didn’t know it was a friendly, and ignored the rules of field combat that (had he followed) would have stopped him from shooting a fellow Ranger.

This kind of trigger happy, gung-ho mentality isn’t that uncommon among the young Rangers. Also, fratricide deaths like Pat’s aren’t that uncommon. Also, the way the military lied to the Tillman family is standard procedure, and usually works to cover up the truth. What the military and the Bush White House didn’t count on Pat’s family refusing to accept a bs story.

The behavior that followed Pat Tillman’s death, the actions by Donald Rumsfeld, the Bush administration, and also the NFL, was shameful, sick, and completely inexcusable.

When it finally came out that Pat’s death was fratricide, and that Pat was a liberal who thought President Bush was a war criminal, the initial response of the NFL was to distance itself from Pat Tillman.

On Memorial Day, 2005, when the NFL Network was talking about players who had served in the military, Pat Tillman’s name was not mentioned.

After helping the Bush administration conspire to use Pat Tillman as a recruiting tool for the military, the NFL turned its back on Pat Tillman. Apparently the league was too afraid of the controversy created by Pat’s parents when they demanded to know the truth.

Be sure to remind Rich Eisen about that the next time you see him.

Gee… Maybe because a guy who gave up a $2 million a year NFL contract to join the U.S. Rangers makes a great story to inspire other Americans to join the service? It sure as heck sounds better when one believed he died in combat with the enemy, and not by one of his own (not that lessens his sacrifice, by any means).

If you honestly believe all that the U.S. military is doing in Afghanistan is playing security for the “CIA and federal government’s opium trade” and that these hundreds of soldiers are maintaining a complete code of silence about it to the point they had to kill Tillman to keep it that way, I have some oceanfront property in Kentucky you may be interested in buying.

Put your partisan BS aside and seriously think about that for a minute.

When you write, “Kudos once again to Whisenhunt, Texans coach Gary Kubiak, and the father-son Jim Moras for devoting their time, and taking a fairly significant risk, for those who currently serve.

you might want to also give kudos to THOSE WHO SERVE!

Absolutely agree on the Wisnehunt/Kubial/Moroa/ Well Done Gents!

No tin foil hat crew here, just truth.