The good soldier

Published September 8 2009, Dexter Filkins nytimes.com

3 quotes

1.The details, even five years later, are nauseating to read: After Tillman’s death, Army commanders, aided and abetted by members of the Bush administration, violated many of their own rules, not to mention elementary standards of decency, to turn the killing into a propaganda coup for the American side.
2.Members of his unit were ordered to stay silent about the manner of his death.
3.Most important, Army commanders went to great lengths to keep the facts of Tillman’s death a secret and allowed the story that he died at the hands of the Taliban to flourish.