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Democrats habitually claim that were they in power, they would conduct the war against terrorism more effectively than the Bush administration has. Yesterday, they got their chance to prove it. A House committee chaired by the venerable Henry A. Waxman, California Democrat, had before it former Secretary of Defense Doland H. Rumsfeld; retired Gen. Richard B. Myers and "other former top brass." These gentlemen were being grilled about why it took the Army five weeks to notify the family of a famous soldier who had been killed in battle in Afghanistan and that he had been killed by friendly fire rather than enemy fire ("Rumsfeld denies cover up on Tillman," Nation, Thursday). The witnesses were not questioned about what steps the Army had taken to prevent future friendly-fire killings, only what had caused the delay.
What Mr. Waxman and his fellow Democrats should have been asking was how the Army could have kept this information from Cpl. Tillman's family for so long. Instead this spectacle has embarrassed the Army and downplayed the heroic death of Cpl. Tillman. He certainly deserves to be honored, regardless of how he was killed in combat. The Democrats are sending a bad message to our troops.See the full content of this document
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The Pat Tillman Case
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