Waxman hearings set on Tillman, Lynch misinformation.
By on Apr 10th, 2007 at 2:20 pm
Waxman hearings set on Tillman, Lynch misinformation.
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee “has scheduled hearings on the military’s misleading statements that followed the friendly fire death of Pat Tillman in Afghanistan and the rescue of Pvt. Jessica Lynch in Iraq. The April 24 hearing is “part of an investigation into whether misinformation was part of a strategy to mislead the public.”
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It has to be tough to be a Democratic congressperson when you have to phrase it as “part of an investigation into whether misinformation was part of a strategy to mislead the public.â€
Inside, you know all of them would much rather say something like “part of the obvious proof of the adminstration’s blatant strategy to pull the wool over the public’s eyes.”
But I guess you have to attempt to be diplomatic.
April 10th, 2007 at 2:24 pmBut I guess you have to attempt to be diplomatic.
Comment by bobcat_grad
Which is more than I can say for the Republicans on a different thread topic.
Misleading the public is what this entire Presidental regime has been about. Lies, lies and more lies. Bush and his loyalists are allergic to the truth.
April 10th, 2007 at 2:31 pmAfter the requested Rice testimony, subpeonas for DOJ documents, Senate calls for more documents and now this, I bet GW wished the Dems HAD stayed on vacation a little longer.
April 10th, 2007 at 2:35 pmGood to see the crap they pulled in the past come back like bad heartburn. Keep crying trolls, comeuppance is a bitch.
April 10th, 2007 at 2:36 pmMy lovely pitbull Henry Waxman, if I wasn’t a married woman, mmmmmmmmmm…….
April 10th, 2007 at 2:37 pmAd infinitum, ad nauseum.
April 10th, 2007 at 2:40 pmGood to see the crap they pulled in the past come back like bad heartburn.
Comment by Yikes
Maybe their insurance policies will cover a lifetime supply of Nexium?
April 10th, 2007 at 2:42 pmHow dare this traitor try and dispargage the heroism of these two heroes! This is an outrage.
April 10th, 2007 at 3:00 pmPat Tillman: Killed by Friendly Fire or Executed by His Own Government?
“The Bush Administration knew at the top that celebrity soldier Pat Tillman had been killed by persons in, or attached to his own unit, yet it purposely chose to muffle the incident for more than two years; lying to the family while lionizing the victim as a war hero. Circumstantial evidence, primarily illogical actions at very high levels of the administration, suggests more than a cover up of a “friendly fire†accident.”
“America’s most famous volunteer soldier was, according to his brother and constant companion, on the verge of whistle-blowing the bankruptcy of US policy in Iraq.”
http://whtt.org/index.php?news=2&id=1329
April 10th, 2007 at 3:00 pmExpose the lying, TREASONOUS, corrupt basta*ds for what they are…
…they USED Pat Tillman, Jessica Lynch and hundreds of thousands of dead Americans, Afghans, and Iraqis…
…so that ($400 million dollar retirement package) fat basta*d from Exxon-Mobil, L’il Dick/Halliburton, and Papa Bush and the Carlyle Group/NWO…
…could continue to PROFIT…
…redneck and ALLof his kind should be rooted out and rounded uplike their gods…
…Bushiva and L’il Dick…
…and held ACCOUNTABLE for their TREASON…
April 10th, 2007 at 3:11 pmTillman and Lynch are heroes. Why are the Dems trying to degrade their heroism just to get at Bush?
April 10th, 2007 at 3:13 pmTillman and Lynch are heroes. Why are the Dems trying to degrade their heroism just to get at Bush? Comment by Patrick1 — April 10, 2007 @ 3:13 pm
Heroes that other REPUBLICANS would rather see dead, or lie about their deaths to avoid embarrassment? You people are sickos. Tell me Patrick1, why does the GOP hate Tillman so much that they would cover up what might have been his MURDER by their fellow GOP?
Political gain? Protect BUSH? What’s your deal man? Do you hate truth, justice and honoring our soldiers so much? You really are nothing more than a Taliban terrorist that hates our freedoms, and are values, aren’t you little wacko?
April 10th, 2007 at 3:18 pmLynch’s words (post-media orgy):
When asked about her hero status, “That wasn’t me. I’m not about to take credit for something I didn’t do … I’m just a survivor.”
April 10th, 2007 at 3:20 pmAnd the TRUTH shall set you free!
April 10th, 2007 at 3:32 pmLynch’s words (post-media orgy):
When asked about her hero status, “That wasn’t me. I’m not about to take credit for something I didn’t do … I’m just a survivor.â€
Yeah, but you will pocket a million or so dollars for it. What a sham.
April 10th, 2007 at 3:33 pmI heard the Lynch thing was really about people who were not properly trained, couldn’t drive a vehicle, and couldn’t fire their weapons. Or the weapons jammed.
April 10th, 2007 at 3:36 pmI don’t think there’s anyone out there who doesn’t think that Tillman and Lynch aren’t heroes. Hell, anyone who puts on the uniform of this country and faces the possibility of enemy fire is, at least in my book, a hero.
What we’re questioning is the callous (and apparently quite calculated) misuse of these heroes’ stories (or fabrications thereof) as a means to justify and glorify what is turning out to be a quagmire of epic proportions.
I think that any administration that either hides or manufactures evidence in an attempt to paint a prettier picture of wartime heroes has abdicated the right to claim any type of moral high ground. And I think that we have a responsibility to ensure that those who are willing to make the ultimate sacrifice in our names are served better then that.
April 10th, 2007 at 3:41 pmAs hokey as this may sound, Waxman actually makes me feel proud of my country. There are a lot of places around the world where the opposition party couldn’t have been voted back into power and allowed to investigate a corrupt president the way this one has. We’re doing it without a revolution. So far.
April 10th, 2007 at 4:55 pm#11 Patrick1
Tillman is a hero for what he did, not for how he died. There’s nothing heroic about getting shot by your own troops.
And, he was very clear about his opposition to the invasion of Iraq. He signed up to go after the Taliban and al Qaeda in Afghanistan, not to go wherever little Georgie felt like playing war.
April 10th, 2007 at 4:59 pmInvestigate, Impeachment will come. The Republibans only truth is a distortion of the bible. All news and information must serve the leader. Loyalty to Bush is all that counts. Bad news isn’t real, didn’t happen. Reminds me of Baghdad Bob standing in front of the camera denying that the Americans were anywhere near Baghdad while the Tanks were at the edge of the city. The Bush Administration is a complete and utter failure! Everything was a lie! Wait till Congress digs Bush, Cheney and Rove out of their little spider holes! Should we demand the resignation of all members of the Bush Party and forbid their involvement in Politics?
April 10th, 2007 at 6:10 pmWill Waxman call Torie Clark? She was the PR honcho in the Pentagon at the time who moved over to CNN after her stunt with with Rumsfeld. It might be interesting to hear her spin.
April 10th, 2007 at 6:11 pmYes, we have to be diplomatic in dealing with Bush&Co — they have not a clue about tact themselves. So the Dems will phrase things politely and in a dignified manner while investigating the back alley, cheap trash, lying garbage that emanates from the White House and its Dept of Defense.
April 10th, 2007 at 6:42 pmWithin days of Lynch’s “rescue” we were hearing conflicting stories of the facts. And every day brought more contradictions, finally in the words of Pfc. Lynch herself.
We have all had our memories refreshed regarding the shameful Tillman incident.
So, yes, we must investigate whether misinformation and disinformation is part of their strategy. That will include hearing from Victoria Clark, David Senor, Tommy Franks, Richard Meyers, et al.
I believe we can thank Waxman and Conyers and others for the rise in approval level of the congress. The public is eager to get the results of these inquiries into the preceeding six years of a congress who aided and abetted an unchecked president.
April 10th, 2007 at 6:44 pmTHE BLINDING LIGHT OF TRUTH CASTS REVEALING INSIGHT UPON THE PUTREFYING CORRUPTION OF Bushland Uber Allies AND ITS PERNICIOUS MACHINATIONS UNDERMINING THE DEMOCRACY AND WELL-BEING NOT ONLY OF AMERICA BUT THE REST OF THE WORLD–GO HENRY WAXMAN, GO!!!!! BRING CHIMPya and HIS NAZI-FASCIST GOOSE-STEPPING MINIONS TO HEEL AND INVESTIGATE, PROSECUTE AND EXECUTE THESE WAR CRIMINALS AND COMMON CRIMINALS FOR THEIR HIGH CRIMES!!!!! PERHAPS PAT TILLMAN CAN REST EASIER INSTEAD OF TURNING OVER IN HIS GRAVE CONSTANTLY AT THE PERFIDY OF Bushland Uber Allies AND JESSICA LYNCH FIND CLOSURE AFTER THESE TWO WERE ENROBED IN A MASS OF MISINFORMATION AND DOWNRIGHT LIES TO SAVE THE UGLY MONKEY-FACE OF CHIMPya and Bushland Uber Allies!!!!!
April 10th, 2007 at 6:46 pmWaxman is going to go down in history as one of our most-necessary public servants…thank God he’s doing his job (and not, say, running for President)
April 10th, 2007 at 7:12 pmHas anybody explained why Tillman’s fellow soldiers burned his uniform as well (and most important) his journal !?!?!?!
April 10th, 2007 at 7:14 pmHow many more stories of this Administration attacking fellow Americans do we need to hear before we all believe its best to look under the rock rather than look away? http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/50191/
April 10th, 2007 at 7:16 pmTillman’s fellow soldiers burned his uniform as well (and most important) his journal !?!?!?!
Comment by Shawn Fassett #26
Thanks Shawn…
…this says a lot about some of these “heroes”…
April 10th, 2007 at 7:21 pmMaybe now, someone in the mainstream media will dare to ask publicly how Lynch came to have an American flag draped over her during her rescue. The “rescuers” had to take that flag in with them and take the time to drape it over her, just so, before taking her out. If they had time to decorate, this was no act of derring-do. Maybe they shot the whole thing in a studio somewhere.
April 10th, 2007 at 9:37 pmThe Tillman story is outrageous. However, the Jessica-Lynch-as-hero story is cut from whole cloth. The doctor that treated her at the time could have taken her out of “captivity” at any time if he had a means of transporting her. She was never a captive. His story was easy to get, if the “left-wing” media wanted to get it.
April 11th, 2007 at 10:30 amIt will be interesting to see how much of this comes to light.
Tillman and Lynch are heroes. Why is Patrick1 trying to degrade their heroism just to get at the Dems?
Comment by Patrick1 ’s Mom— April 10, 2007 @ 3:13 pm
you had a typo.
April 11th, 2007 at 1:08 pm