Pat Tillman’s Mom Wants General Stanley McChrystal Removed From White House Post
This doesn’t seem right. Sort of makes a mockery of her son’s death.
ABC News’ Jake Tapper reports:
President Obama appointed retired General Stanley McChrystal to co-chair a commission on military families this week, but according to perhaps the most prominent military family of the last decade, McChrystal is unfit for that duty.
Mary Tillman, mother of Pat Tillman, the former professional football player turned Army Ranger who was tragically killed by friendly fire 7 years ago, is angered by McChrystal’s appointment, telling ABC News that he was part of the propaganda effort pushing the false tale that Tillman had been killed by the enemy, and keeping the truth from the world — and their family.
“I was actually pretty shocked to hear it; I don’t think it’s the appropriate choice,” Tillman told ABC News. “Considering that we have plenty of evidence indicating that McChrystal was involved in the cover-up of Pat’s death…he’s not the right person for that kind of a job.”
Tillman says the president’s appointment of McChrystal “makes him look foolish, frankly.”
She tells ABC News that “someone who has a heartfelt desire to help families would not have been involved in the cover-up of a soldier’s death, especially one that they used to promote a war.”
McChrystal — who declined comment to ABC News — was the commander of special operations in Afghanistan when Tillman was killed in April 2004. Soon after McChrystal wrote his commanders an urgent memo that, “It is highly possible that Corporal Tillman was killed by friendly fire.”
Having heard President George W. Bush might speak publicly about Tillman, McChrystal wrote to his higher ups to make sure they knew the truth so as to “preclude any…public embarrassment if the circumstances of Corporal Tillman’s death become public.”
Tillman notes that McChrystal wrote “if this becomes public this could be an embarrasment to the administration. He didnt say ‘when’ this becomes public, ‘when’ we tell the family. So there was going to be an effort to cover this up.”
At the same time McChrystal was sending that confidential memo, he was part of the propaganda effort pushing a false narrative about Tillman’s death, the family charges.
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(ABC)
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