Pat Tillman's Family Speaks Out

As the Daily Howler points out,

Maybe we’ve finally found someone who will be allowed to complain
about this Admin’s endemic dissembling. We refer to the parents of Pat
Tillman.

Pat Tillman was killed by friendly fire, but the Bush Administratin neglected to mention that to his family, and instead used him as an insignificant pawn to foster those warm mushy feelings of patrio-jism that only the most devout of NFL fans can muster.

Well Tillman's parents are justifiably miffed.

Mary Tillman says the government used her son for weeks after his
death, perpetuating an untrue story to capitalize on his altruism—just as
the Abu Ghraib prison scandal was erupting publicly. She said she was
particularly offended when President Bush offered a taped memorial
message to Tillman at a Cardinals football game shortly before the
presidential election last fall. She again felt as though her son was
being used, something he never would have wanted.

"Every day is sort of emotional," Mary Tillman said. "It just keeps
slapping me in the face. To find that he was killed in this debacle—
everything that could have gone wrong did—it's so much harder to take. We
should not have been subjected to all of this. This lie was to cover their
image. I think there's a lot more yet that we don't even know, or they
wouldn't still be covering their tails.”

"Maybe lying's not a big deal anymore," Tillman’s father says at another
point in the piece.

I would certainly be peeved as well, if anyone I loved was used as a political chess piece for this Adminstration's propaganda machine. Where do the lies end?