Ed Henry asked Bush if he would make a pledge to get to the bottom of the sordid tale of Pat Tillman’s death in today’s presser. Bush avoided making a pledge and couldn’t even remember when he first heard about the Pat Tillman cover-up. Have we forgotten that he was called “worm dirt?”
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And they ask us to blindly believe everything a man in uniform says with orders from their superiors…Supporting the troops in battle and in health is of paramount importance to all of us, but the Pat Tillman saga exposed the lies that the highest ranking generals were willing to commit in order to cover up the heroic Pat Tillman. A reporter should have followed up by asking Bush why they are using executive privilege over the Tillman documents.
Transcript: Q Thank you, Mr. President. You speak often about taking care of the troops and honoring their sacrifice. But the family of Corporal Pat Tillman believes there was a cover up regarding his death, and some say perhaps he was even murdered, instead of just friendly fire. At a hearing last week on Capitol Hill your former Defense Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, other officials used some version of “I don’t recall” 82 times. When it was his term to step up, Pat Tillman gave up a lucrative NFL career, served his country and paid the ultimate sacrifice. Now you have a chance to pledge to the family that your government, your administration will finally get to the bottom of it. Can you make that pledge to the family today, that you’ll finally, after seven investigations, find out what really happened?
THE PRESIDENT: Well, first of all, I can understand why Pat Tillman’s family, you know, has got significant emotions, because a man they loved and respected was killed while he was serving his country. I always admired the fact that a person who was relatively comfortable in life would be willing to take off one uniform and put on another to defend America. And the best way to honor that commitment of his is to find out the truth. And I’m confident the Defense Department wants to find out the truth, too, and we’ll lay it out for the Tillman family to know.
Q But, Mr. President, there have been seven investigations and the Pentagon has not gotten to the bottom of it. Can you also tell us when you, personally, found out that it was not enemy fire, that it was friendly fire?
THE PRESIDENT: I can’t give you the precise moment. But obviously the minute I heard that the facts that people believed were true were not true, that I expect there to be a full investigation and get to the bottom of it.
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Must be the memory loss due to lyme disease. I reckon half the Bush Administration was bit by the same tick.
This should be a form of treason.
Read Stan Cox today on Counterpunch.org
Unconscionsionable (sp?)… “A man they loved”… he was their brother and son, President A$$hat!
WTF?! is that Chimp smokin’?
The “worm dirt” crack never bothered me so much, accept for the fact that the asshole who made the crack was attemptin’ to claim that atheists are morally bankrupt. Yeah, we all die and the molecules that compose our bodies are returned to the universe. Even many Christian burials rites include the “Ashes to ashes, dust to dust,” acknowledgement.
What that woman seems unable to perceive, though, is that Tillman’s conciousness lives on in the lives of those he influenced in a postive way. And that’s a lot more than can be said fer a little, negative pisant like her.
As fer Stupor Mundi’s evasive answers today…Well, hell, if the investigation is gonna hit too close to Bushco, then, of course he’s gonna dodge.
And the truth about wmds?
And the truth about Iraq’s ties to 9/11?
And the truth about biological weapons?
And the truth about Jessica Lynch?
And the truth about uranium from Africa?
And the truth about the Plame leak?
And the truth about the attorney scandal?
And the truth about domestic spying?
Stan GOFF at Counterpunch.
Real lots of Stan Goff.
Happy NIXON RESIGNS Day to one and all !!!! (Remember, Nixon resigned in disgrace on August 9, 1974).
Someday soon, maybe, we’ll have a Happy BUSH AND CHENEY RESIGN Day to celebrate, too !!!!
“But obviously the minute I heard that the facts that people believed were true were not true, that I expect there to be a full investigation and get to the bottom of it.”
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That’s not an answer. That’s not even English!
I despise the hypocrisy of self proclaimed Christians. A person is either with them, or opposed. Just like every other sorry ass excuse of a cult. Never used to feel this way, either, until the swine began subverting the Constitution.
This shit for brains couldn’t tell the truth if his life depended on it.
He is the poster boy for this website.
He is a Crook. He is a Liar.
He might be in over his head with this Tillman family. That Mom looks like she ain’t gonna take his shit and this lady is smart.
jack jett
jack jett @ 11:
Honest to God, I can’t think of one thing that I can add to that!
If GWB were my son, I’d kill myself out of self respect.
Andy K @ 5:
Pardon me. The woman I was referrin; to(Kazlaurich) is a man. Shoulda reviewed the link, got a bit confused.
Unrelated, but okay, this is disturbing.
Australia’s PM “vows to clean up the internet”:
http://www.news.com.au/story/0.....21,00.html
Why can’t these white house reprters have some collegiality, give up their pre-rehearsed questions when called upon, and follow up the previous reporter’s question as a one-two team to defeat bushco’s avoidance of the follow up?
when i think of a president i think of a respectable leader and a man of the people
i don’t think of this picture above. look at him….he looks like he is in pain standing there. first of all because he finds consorting with the peons disgusting and secondly because he has to answer questions from these inferiors.
NEVER AGAIN
Just look at that face. (if you can) What a maroon. Dear god, how much longer………
Tom Ivory @ 15:
Because they all have the idea that their own question is so much more important. That and the fact that if they veer off-track from the scripted questions a giant machine gun will pop out of the ceiling and strafe them all. Heh heh.
He barely cares about his own children, much less someone else’s.
abarts @ 19:
In this respect, he is very like his mother.
he can’t possibly know what they’re feeling. His daughters dont serve and they’re alive. He didn’t serve either, so no, he really cant understand what they’re going through.
Why would he make a pledge regarding justice when he knows he hasn’t kept a single one yet.
There he is again with that stupid look on his face.
neil @ 24:
This is your brain on drugs.
The Democrats in Congress need to press Bush on this. Tillman is only the tip of the iceberg on what is wrong with this phony War in Iraq and this phony War on Terrorism.
My god, why won’t our Congress do something to defund this war!
He “expects?” Howzabout ordering one, considering YOU ARE THE COMMANDER GUY?
Jo @ 25:
Not drugs, kool-aid
So many new lows with this man that I can no longer keep track. WHY not pledge to investigate fully, unless you are hiding something? A real leader would have said that he won’t go on vacation (again) until the Tillmans, and the American people, have an answer. As to Tom Ivory’s question, the simple answer is the corporate media sucks at the teat of the establishment (Dem and GOP) and virtually never asks any questions of serious moment, because access and their careers are more important than journalism and the welfare of the public they ought to be serving. When are the American people going to figure out that neither political party has their interest in mind, and when will they realize that a corporate-run media cannot be relied on to provide the information and critical analysis that constitute the lifeblood of democracy?
When it comes to Tillman’s death, I always say if the shooter could get a good enough aim to put three bullet’s into Tillman’s forehead, then he had to have been able to get a very, very good look at his target. No way was it dumb luck to hit someone directly in the forehaed three times, especially considering that Army Rangers are very well trained and capable troops.
I always have a hunch some Fox “News” reject decided to frag Tillman, and it’s being covered up. Just look at the way Malkin and her right wing friends routinely frag our troops from their computer bunkers.
Anybody need a fundamental lesson on why this man is diagnosed as a sociopath need only listen to the extemporaneous part about why the Tillman family feels emotional about the loss of Pat. He honestly has no personal clue what loss of this magnitude feels like, and has to try to phrase it as a platitude.
We can sit around all we want and criticize Bush and criticize the Administration’s handling of Tillman and the War, but WHEN THE RUBBER MEETS THE ROAD, like defunding the War, our Democrats in Congress are a bunch of chickens_ _s!
Tillman’s family is anti War; the Nation is anti War; we’re all anti War, so why oh why won’t our Democrats in Congress just defund the war. They have the power to do that right now. There would be nothing to veto!
What a focking worm Bush is.
Bush may “look” stupid; but apparently he’s smarter than us and smarter than the Democrats and the Democrats in Congress, because, with all that “stupidity” we’re letting him get what he wants in this War!
What’s the funniest show on television? The White House!
Milty @ 35:
That smartness is Cheney’s hand up his arse. Cheney has the hate going. Bush just wants to ride his bike or chop things up. And blow things up like the frogs he blew up when he was young.
Jo, OK, Bush, Cheney, or whoever, one way or the other they are outsmarting the Democrats and us on the War. (If it is Cheney, Bush is apparently smart enough to use Cheney to get the deed done.)
The point is, what’s the point to blog about Tillman when we’re all just sitting back and allowing Bush/Cheney to perpetuate this phony war, and our Democratic majority Congresss, elected to stop it, does absolutely nothing but pass meaningless resolutions, as they won’t simply defund the War so we would have no more Tillman’s.
I love Bush’s facial expressions during a press conference. It looks like he’s swallowing bile as the reporter asks his question.
WR @ 21:
Yeah, but you know no one suffers more than he and Laura do when a soldier dies. Except, of course, the soldiers spouse, mom, dad, siblings, children, friends, neighbors and co-workers. Not only does he have no idea what these people are going through every day, he just does not care. They are just numbers, a comma in history.
Personally, I hope the Tillman family hounds him to the grave, from what I have read about Pat Tillman and his family they are not quitters and they will get the answers they seek and they deserve. The tragic part is how many average Joes families will never get the truth about their loved ones deaths because they do not have the name recognition of a famous NFL star. Every family that loses a loved one deserves to get nothing but the truth from the military about what happened, the government owes them at least that much.
OMG, OUR FUCKING PRESIDENT IS A GODDAMNED MORON! HOW CAN SOMEONE BE SO VAPID, SO COMPLETELY EMPTY, SO GODDAMNED INNANE? SO GODDAMNED STUPID? HOLY SHIT!
Hype, Bush may be a stupid moron like you say, but what does that say about the Democrats in Congress who won’t simply defund the war — so the “stupid” “moronic” Bush gets what he wants.
Seems he’s outsmarting the rest!
“THE PRESIDENT: Well, first of all, I can understand why Pat Tillman’s family, you know, has got significant emotions, because a man they loved and respected was killed while he was serving his country.”
Ya think?
Holy shit! I cannot believe that this is our fucking president speaking! This sounds like something you’d expect from a goddamned 8th grader who just learned the meaning of “significant.” This man just wasted 30-some-odd words. He wasted breath. He’s a goddamned waste of space. Someone give this clueless fucker a bottle of gin and let him toodle back to Texas. I hear a village there is missing a goddamned idiot.
AGGAHHGAHH Must not …. revolt …
No, he’s outsmarting the stupid. And anyone who voted for him, is more of a moron than he is.
Hype, I wish you were right, but that would mean all the Democrats we elected to Congress to end the war are the morons because they simply will not defund the war, which they can do right no — nothing for Bush to veto!
that’s defund “right now”
” I always admired the fact that a person who was relatively comfortable in life would be willing to take off one uniform and put on another to defend America “, The President.
That is why almost all of his administration is non military, Deferments, or 4F’s.
This man doesn’t admire something he and his most trusted did not and could not do out of fear for their own lives.
It has been fear that has been the driving force of this presidency. It is not just having fears. It is how one confronts and deals with those fears with actions to follow. They are still acting in fear without once confronting the fears. So their actions are irrationally concluded from overwhelming un-faced fear. That is why the secrecy, the snaking around law, the covering up, blaming others, the bragging of the “Commander Guy” as he reminds us he is the “Decider”, “Protector”, And “War President”. Trying to convince us and himself he is not afraid. Without confronting his fear(s).
Robt, apparently the Democrats in Congress have fear as well — fear to defund the war!
F*&K him…What a pile of excrement we have as the leader of the formerly known as the free world.He is the poster child for bald faced corruption and lies.And I can go on and on in these comments and others like them to no avail beyond sharing my frustration with like minded readers and lurkers alike.
Lets mobilize in a big way.
Something’s coming…I’ve had about enough.
th’rev, what exactly is coming?