Reply #146: I'm with you

[Brothaman2k]

Like I said earlier in the thread, I don't think this is the result of a conspiracy, but a criminal act. I mean think about it....

The Administration had him killed? Well, for whatever reason they'd want to do this, this is a whole lot of one thing we know this secretive cabal doesn't want... EXPOSURE. In order to have someone killed you have to find an assassin to do the job. That means you have to make contacts and make your intentions known to somebody. What if the people you ask to do the job refuse? What if they refuse and go to the press?! No, no, no... WAAAAAAAAAAY too risky. Now if I'd heard about some mysterious soldier or soldiers who came in for a few days and disappeared after Tillman was killed and they can't be tracked down. Now I could say it was plausible that they were handpicked, black bag, clandestine agents for the job, but we don't have that here.

They had him killed because he objected to the war on terror? If he objects he objects. Shit there were thousands objecting when this went down, didn't make a damn bit of difference. What's one more? Did Tillman make headlines when he left the NFL for the army, sure. It was all the rage for a few days. Then it disappeared from the headlines until he was killed. Could his semi-high profile status been a campaign tool for Dems? Sure, but it's not like the entire election would have hinged on him. His story was compelling, but it wasn't THAT huge.

I'm telling you, this is no conspiracy, it was a flat criminal act. Much has been made of the antiwar sentiment Tillman wrote in his diary, but diaries are really meant for people to document their days. The stuff they've seen and heard. Now on a battlefield with fire fights and people dying it's not a leap to suggest if he ever saw some kind of act that might be considered a war crime, he would have documented it in the diary. Now, if he was known as the honest, "boyscout" type those who commited the illegal act would have seen him as a threat and silencing him a way to keep him from getting them thrown in jail. I say Tillman was a witness to something and soldiers in his unit killed him and snatched the diary to cover it up.

That's a much more likely scenario.