While I'm as liberal as anyone, I wouldn't always believe what you see on truth-out any more than I'd believe what I see on WorldNutDaily without corroboration from other sources.
Also, just because he was ordered by his commanding officer to do something wrong (Corporals don't get to overrule officers) doesn't mean his death was a good thing. He was still a human being and an American and his family mourned just as much as anyone's. Opposing the war doesn't mean celebrating the deaths of American soliders (regardless of how they died and who killed them).
Besides, since he did eventually die in a friendly fire incident and his death was covered up by the Pentagon that makes him every bit as much of a victim of this war as any other person. He didn't ask to be put in that situation.
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Date: 12/11/10 23:06 (UTC)Also, just because he was ordered by his commanding officer to do something wrong (Corporals don't get to overrule officers) doesn't mean his death was a good thing. He was still a human being and an American and his family mourned just as much as anyone's. Opposing the war doesn't mean celebrating the deaths of American soliders (regardless of how they died and who killed them).
Besides, since he did eventually die in a friendly fire incident and his death was covered up by the Pentagon that makes him every bit as much of a victim of this war as any other person. He didn't ask to be put in that situation.