..."Wiped their feet with him"

Pat Tillman (l.) and his brother, Kevin, in Saudi Arabia shortly before being deployed to Iraq in 2003. "The administration used Pat", said Pat Tillman's mother, Mary Tillman. "They tried to attach themselves to his virtue and then they wiped their feet with him." "I’m sure he was on their radar and I’m sure the Army wouldn’t do this without the administration knowing. The administration covered it up because they needed to promote the war and it came at the time of the Abu Ghraib scandal," she said. “They spun a fantasy story that made his Silver Star suspect — I know that Pat was heroic and I didn’t need their deceptions to confirm it." And as Pat Tillman's father, Patrick Sr., has said, "They blew up their poster boy". The sad reality of an entire hierarchy of deceit and dishonesty that permeates down the chain and soils and infects nearly everyone in its path who doesn't have the integrity to resist. The Army knew what story their superiors wanted told - it just wasn't, and still hasn't been, the truth..... But, then again, we should all be used to that by now.