Tillman Testimony

I happened to catch Kevin Tillman's live testimony to the House panel regarding the handling of his brother Pat Tillman's death. It was gut-wrneching and potentially explosive testimony, giving the tale of how the powers-that-be framed Tillman's death as an example of "heroism in the face of insurgent enemy fire" in order to deflect war criticism after the Abu Ghraib debacle, then -- when the truth started to come out that there were no insurgents, that Pat Tillman was killed by soldiers of his own unit -- how officials kept twisting and spinning the facts, and how the family has slowly learned the ugly truth of that day.

If this doesn't cause heads to roll, then nothing can.

The link above is to CNN's story. I've tried to find a copy of the full transcript online, because Kevin Tillman's indictment was well-crafted and emotional, but I haven't seen one yet -- though I'm sure one will appear soon... You should read it. You really should.

"Twilight Zone" -- The President's Alternate History

Wow, even the conservatives are upset. Here's an article by Gregory Cochran in The American Conservative online magazine that's worth reading -- elucidating the false history the Bushies have created to justify events...

From the article: "When tired or stressed, they (members of the Bush administration) refer to the history that they lived and learned in school. But their briefing books recount an alternate history in which Iraq in 2002 was not a poor and backward country but the coming threat, as our Germany was in 1938. A history in which America, after the Revolution, was a flaming cesspool like Iraq today, a world in which Lincoln executed unruly legislators. One in which World War II dragged on long after the indecisive Battle of Midway. One in which our occupation of Germany was plagued by guerrilla warfare. One in which we’ve been fighting World War IV with Iran and Syria for 25 years, as Jim Woolsey has repeatedly said. One in which a hostile Islamic Caliphate has bothered to go through the formality of coming into existence."

And this screed is found in a magazine founded by Pat Buchanan... We do indeed live in a science fictional world.

(gakked from Constance Ash, who gakked it from a friend's newgroup... I've also seen it linked elsewhere here and there...)