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re: Official Pat Tillman Memorial Day Appreciation Thread
Posted on 5/26/15 at 7:46 am to dnm3305
Posted on 5/26/15 at 7:46 am to dnm3305
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Really? What incentive did the United States Government have to murder an Army Ranger?
There's plenty of evidence that he had turned against the war, and was vocal about it to his fellow Soldiers. The theory is that once he returned to the states would have been a strong voice against it, so he was killed. That's a little too black helicopterish for me to take at face value, but the government's covering up the fact that he was killed by friendly fire adds fuel to conspiracists.
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Posted on 5/26/15 at 7:54 am to Jim Rockford
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There's plenty of evidence that he had turned against the war, and was vocal about it to his fellow Soldiers. The theory is that once he returned to the states would have been a strong voice against it, so he was killed. That's a little too black helicopterish for me to take at face value, but the government's covering up the fact that he was killed by friendly fire adds fuel to conspiracists.
I've heard the same thing from a guy who was in the army who believes it 100%. He said the story was that Tillman was super cocky and had begun talking a bunch of shite and they thought he was turning against the war so someone took him out. I don't really buy it but he's adamant about. He's also been known to be full of shite though.
Posted on 5/26/15 at 8:17 am to Jim Rockford
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There's plenty of evidence that he had turned against the war, and was vocal about it to his fellow Soldiers. The theory is that once he returned to the states would have been a strong voice against it, so he was killed. That's a little too black helicopterish for me to take at face value, but the government's covering up the fact that he was killed by friendly fire adds fuel to conspiracists.
That's all complete bullshite. He was vocally against the Iraq War, but he was killed in Afghanistan by friendly fire. Let's focus on the real outrage- that he was killed by friendly fire on a pointless mission due to nonsensical military bureaucratic protocol and then the circumstances of his death were covered up. There's plenty enough tragedy in that alone, no need to resort to conspiracy theories.
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