Lynch testified that after her vehicle was attacked in Iraq in March 2003, she suffered a mangled spinal column, broken arm, crushed foot, shattered femur and even a sexual assault.
what a lie. she said no such thing. she said the iraq doctors placed a rod in her leg and that only after she was flown to germany she was informed she had been sexually abused.
i can’t believe the gaul in the irresponsibility of this reporting.

Posted by: annie | Apr 24 2007 20:30 utc | 3

Now, this is worthy of a thread all its own:
Fascism In America In Ten Easy Steps
How about it, b?

Posted by: Antifa | Apr 24 2007 21:59 utc | 5

Clap your hands if you believe in fairies
I don’t think I need to summarize the Pat Tillman story. Lieutenant Colonel Ralph Kauzlarich was a commander responsible for Pat Tillman’s unit. Check out this gem:

Kauzlarich, now a battalion commanding officer at Fort Riley in Kansas, further suggested the Tillman family’s unhappiness with the findings of past investigations might be because of the absence of a Christian faith in their lives.

Posted by: Uncle $cam | Apr 24 2007 22:08 utc | 7

hope somebody’s still watching him. shifty looking fella.

Posted by: b real | Apr 24 2007 22:51 utc | 9

$cam:
Stan Goff detailed Kauzlarich’s role in the cover up and his slur of the Tillmans :
Playing the Atheism Card Against Pat Tillman’s Family

Kauzlarich may have conspired with others to award an inappropriate Silver Star, complete with a phony account of the events surrounding Tillman’s death. Members of Tillman’s chain of command attended Tillman’s memorial service without breathing a word to the family about what really happened, and it appears, again from the documents, that Kauzlarich deep-sixed the original investigation, which he then had redone under his personal supervision.
A Ranger captain was assigned to investigate the death of Pat Tillman—Richard Scott, then commander of Headquarters Company, 2/75 Rangers. Scott carried out his task with integrity, and the Article 15-6 investigation was completed in two weeks. That investigation determined two things: (1) The fellow Rangers who shot Tillman (and an Afghan that the military has never credited with a human being’s name) violated their own rules of engagement and were possibly criminally negligent and (2) that the order that led to splitting the platoon—one vigorously and rightly opposed by the platoon leader on the ground—was responsible for setting up the communications breakdown that resulted in the incident.
It is not legal in the military to dispose of investigations or to compel or allow witnesses to change statements, and then make the original statements disappear, but that is precisely what happened in the case of Pat Tillman. When Kauzlarich took over the investigation from Scott, Kauzlarich’s role in the alleged coverup disappeared and criminal charge recommendations were transformed into wrist-slapping nonjudicial punishments.
Kauzlarich, like Boykin and all their ilk, has the spiritual depth of his own skin, which is what he is trying to save … whether in an exchange of faith for immortality or in deflecting the sorry truth onto a bereaved and angered family with cheap revival-tent accusations of “atheism.”

Posted by: John Francis Lee | Apr 25 2007 1:59 utc | 11

@4, 6 – the video – sorry, f**** typepad seems to cut out youtube links now.
The blond guy shows exactly zero emotions throughout Kevin Tillman’s opening statement.

Posted by: b | Apr 25 2007 6:55 utc | 13

He is just being moved by the Holy Spirit…

Posted by: ralphieboy | Apr 25 2007 9:30 utc | 15