what an interesting article by stan goff, someone in the know i might add. it's frightening to me people like lt. col. ralph kauzlarich are leaders of our service men and women. they think themselves as good and the non-believers (when i say non believers i mean people who do NOT believe exactly the SAME things as themselves) are satan.
Playing the Atheism Card Against Pat Tillman’s Family
Posted on Jul 28, 2006
By Stan Goff
Editor’s note: The author of this essay, Stan Goff, is a retired veteran of the
U.S. Army Special Forces. During an active-duty career that spanned 1970 to
1996, he served with the elite Delta Force and Rangers, and in Vietnam,
Guatemala, Grenada, El Salvador, Colombia, Peru, Somalia and Haiti.
He is a
veteran of the Jungle Operations Training Center in Panama and also taught
military science at the United States Military Academy at West Point.
Goff
is the author of the books “Hideous Dream—A Soldier’s Memoir of the U.S.
Invasion of Haiti,” “Full Spectrum Disorder—The Military in the New American
Century” and “Sex & War.”
In this article Goff writes on the events
surrounding the fratricidal death of Army Ranger and former NFL player Pat
Tillman, and the possible military coverup that ensued.
Goff argues that
Tillman’s commanding officer, in a recent ESPN magazine interview, made a series
of shockingly callous statements about the Tillman family’s search for the truth
because the officer was trying to divert attention from the role he may have
played in the alleged coverup.
Goff’s previously published articles on this
subject can be found at the online publication From the
Wilderness.
His research for those articles included a detailed review
of more than 2,500 pages of official briefings and documents from three
investigations, in addition to extensive interviews with Tillman family members
and some of the soldiers in Tillman’s unit.
Lt. Col. Ralph Kauzlarich has taken Christ into his heart, or so he says. Like my old colleague, Lt. Gen. William G. (“Jerry”) Boykin, he has also carried the organically entrapped messiah onto the heathen-infested battlegrounds of Southwest Asia. Kauzlarich is the subject of my exposition today, but Boykin is his context.
You all remember Jerry Boykin—the general who, as part of the Bush 2003 civil relations effort in Iraq, called Muslims idol worshippers.
Back in the Reagan days, Boykin and I were simultaneously assigned to the allegedly super-secret Delta Force. He was a major then, and he would organize prayer breakfasts for the unit, driving many of us out of the building to purchase sausage-biscuits. His evangelical lunacy was already under siege then. Special Operations is a motley fraternity, in which operators are as likely to worship Odin or an oak tree as they are to attend Sunday services.
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Former Arizona Cardinal Pat Tillman (June 2003)photo: AP / Photography Plus via Williamson Stealth Media Solutions
Above, a redacted report from an investigation into Tillman’s death. Click here to find out more about author Stan Goff’s investigative series on the friendly fire killing and the possible military coverup that ensued.
Another view of Pat Tillman Sr. at his son’s memorial. Click here to see the ESPN magazine series on Tillman’s death and its afterman (including quotes referenced in this Truthdig essay).
Boykin’s recent rise is symptomatic of War Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s fascination with Special Operations—in spite of its generally dismal record. Kauzlarich was on the same career fast track when he was the 75th Ranger Regiment’s “cross commander” at Forward Operating Base Salerno, Khoust, Afghanistan, in 2004. ......
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