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WHEN THERE'S NO ONE LEFT TO SWIFTBOAT. Pierce mentioned this last week, but it deserves all the attention it can get. Kevin Tillman, U.S. Army Ranger and brother of fallen American hero Pat Tillman, joins the ranks of the shrill:
Somehow the more soldiers that die, the more legitimate the illegal invasion becomes.Let's ask the obvious question before the right wing does. In fact, let's do their work for them. What did Kevin Tillman really do in Iraq and Afghanistan? Did he earn the respect of his colleagues in arms? Or did he behave dishonorably, disgracing the uniform he wore? Why won't the craven liberal media ask those questions? It should be clear that Kevin Tillman, like his brother, is an American hero. Like many other American heroes, he has grown angry over being asked to sacrifice for a vicious, empty lie. Now he's decided he can't stay silent about it while his brothers and sisters are also asked to die for the void of dishonesty and destruction that claimed Pat's life. Let the right wing come after Kevin, as well as his brothers and sisters in uniform. They've faced much stronger foes than the sniveling cowards who handed out purple band-aids during the 2004 GOP Convention, and they're still standing. They're not afraid. We shouldn't be, either.Somehow American leadership, whose only credit is lying to its people and illegally invading a nation, has been allowed to steal the courage, virtue and honor of its soldiers on the ground.
--Spencer Ackerman
