THE TILLMAN FAMILY IS NOT GOING AWAY. If there's an iconic tale of the betrayal of the national unity and resolve in the wake of the 9/11 atrocities, it's what happened to Pat Tillman when he left the Arizona Cardinals and went off to war. His death occasioned one of the very first grotesque and demonstrable public lies in what has become an almost endless parade of them. Since then, it has been revealed that the original story of hs death was concocted by a military in thrall to a truthless and cowardly civilian political establishment, and it also been revealed that Tillman himself was possessed of a shrewd and interesting mind, with a good eye for how sacrifice gets coined into someone else's gold. Now, his surviving brother, Kevin, has stated his own case. Of course, the real shame is that this didn't appear in a more prominent and influential forum. Of course, if it had, Kevin Tillman would be riding the Cindy Sheehan swiftboat by now. Anybody who doesn;t believe that hasn't watched the way this administration and its asshats in headphones operate. Watch how it works, if Kevin Tillman sticks his head up just a little higher.
Read it anyway.
--Charles P. Pierce