The True Story About Pat Tillman

I am amazed at the similarities between the late Pat Tillman's story and Jessica Lynch's experiences. Although Lynch was exploited by the Bush Regime for propaganda purposes, she ultimately proved to be beyond all of that when she denounced how she was used. And Pat Tillman is doing something similar from the grave (via Cunning Realist):

Baer, who served with Tillman for more than a year in Iraq and Afghanistan, told one anecdote that took place during the March 2003 invasion as the Rangers moved up through southern Iraq.

“I can see it like a movie screen,” Baer said. “We were outside of (a city in southern Iraq) watching as bombs were dropping on the town. We were at an old air base, me, Kevin and Pat, we weren’t in the fight right then. We were talking. And Pat said, ‘You know, this war is so f— illegal.’ And we all said, ‘Yeah.’ That’s who he was. He totally was against Bush.”

Another soldier in the platoon, who asked not to be identified, said Pat urged him to vote for Bush’s Democratic opponent in the 2004 election, Sen. John Kerry.

It sounds like Pat Tillman was a pretty cool guy.