Heroes

Just how shameful can the military operations in Iraq get? Dick Cheney tells the media that not following George W.'s plan exactly, and handing the man who has squandered so much of the country's capital, both financial and diplomatic, would amount to abandoning our heroic US soldiers. However, for the sake of the public relations of the government, which are just in tip-top shape to begin with, the government will cover up the death of Pat Tillman, killed by friendly fire, as the world has just learned. There is no doubting Tillman's bravery and heroism, but even that isn't safe from the clutches of GW. Both one of the men traveling with Tillman and Jessica Lynch, who spent time as a POW in Iraq, testified before Congress about the elaborate PR spin that the army put out to halt the spread of word about his death. Lynch had a year-in-review worthy quote while answering the Congressmen's questions, seated next to the Tillman family: "The bottom line is the American people are capable of determining their own ideals of heroes and they don't need to be told elaborate lies." The American people at this time don't need the lies and coverups that are bound to come with a pro-war administration, especially when it comes bundled billions of extra dollars spent and the loss of thousands of American lives. Pat Tillman was a hero for his bravery, not for his death, and if it were not for this idiotic, needless war, the world would have a lot more heroes.