Reply #81: Since you mentioned Pat Tillman.

[sabrina 1]

Your theories would be fine except for the fact that the military had access to this video when they wrote their report. That report is totally contradicted by the video.

This man, former Lt. Col. Ralph Kauzlarich, now a commanding officer, was the commander of the troops when this tragedy happened. He seems to have a habit of being around when things like this need to be 'explained away'.

He was involved in the cover-up of the Pat Tillman affair also. He was also the man who recommeded that Tillman get a Silver Star even though he knew from the beginning that the story of Tillman being killed by enemy fire was a lie.

Additionally, he wrote the initial report of Tillman's death, the report that was rejected by the Tillman family.
His explanation for their refusal to accept the lies was that they were 'not Christians'.

Pat Tillman's Uncertain Death

Kauzlarich, now 40, was the Ranger regiment executive officer in Afghanistan, who played a role in writing the recommendation for Tillman's posthumous Silver Star. And finally, with his fingerprints already all over many of the hot-button issues, including the question of who ordered the platoon to be split as it dragged a disabled Humvee through the mountains, Kauzlarich conducted the first official Army investigation into Tillman's death.

That investigation is among the inquiries that didn't satisfy the Tillman family.

"Well, this guy makes disparaging remarks about the fact that we're not Christians, and the reason that we can't put Pat to rest is because we're not Christians," Mary Tillman, Pat's mother, said in an interview with ESPN.com. Mary Tillman casts the family as spiritual, though she said it does not believe in many of the fundamental aspects of organized religion.

He wasn't beyond disparaging the grieving family claiming that if they were Christians, they, like many of the other families of soldiers killed by 'fratricide' would accept their loved on's death since they would know he was going to a 'better place'. Their lack of faith, he said, was the reason they would never be satisfied with any report, because this is all they have, this life.

So, here he is again involved in another cover-up. Reuters asked to see this video, but the military refused to release it to them. If they were not trying to hide the fact that their nice, neat report didn't match the facts seen in the video, why would they refuse to allow Reuters to view it?

As for your theory about civilian deaths, the way to avoid them is to stay out of other people's countries. If you invade a country that has not attaced you, it's to be expected that the people there will defend themselves. It's interesting that Americans don't see how the world and certainly the Iraqi people, view their unlawful occupation of that country. THEY are in the wrong place, killing the citizens of that country and dividing up their resources among their Global Capitalist friends. It is the height of arrogance to expect those people to simply accept their illegal presence in their country and to try to justify even a single death of an Iraqi citizen. Every death there is a crime, since the war itself is a crime.