MORE ON MILITARISM

I haven't heard or read any wingnut reaction to this but I suspect that they will try, somehow, to blame liberals for this.

Officials: 9 to be held to account on Tillman
Officers reportedly to be cited in friendly-fire death
of Ranger, ex-NFL star
Updated: 7:28 p.m. MT March 23, 2007


WASHINGTON - A Pentagon investigation will recommend that nine officers, including up to four generals, be held accountable for missteps in the aftermath of the friendly fire death of Army Ranger Pat Tillman in Afghanistan, senior defense officials said Friday.

Dozens of soldiers — those immediately around Tillman at the scene of the shooting, his immediate superiors and high-ranking officers at a command post nearby — knew within minutes or hours that his death was fratricide.


Even so, the Army persisted in telling Tillman’s family he was killed in a conventional ambush, including at his nationally televised memorial service 11 days later. It was five weeks before his family was told the truth, a delay the Army has blamed on procedural mistakes.