Why does this story merit posting on Truthdig when the daily intentional slaughters by insurgents and terrorists get little coverage here?

It is becoming painfully obvious that Truthdigs’s only real standard for deciding what is newsworthy is that the story be somehow anti-US or anti-Bush.

shame shame shame on the comments below !!! friendly fire is a unfortunate aspect of warfare !!!  pat Tillman was a American hero regardless of how he died !!!  let me see ??? do you guys think that if you were in battle and you might be killed any second that you might be trigger happy ??? i think so !! our soldiers are only human !!! more noble ones than you guys !!

Nearly every battle fought by every army in every war in history has suffered at least some friendly fire. This kind of thing is to be expected, especially during such a long conflict and one where the enemy hides so well amoung allies. So I wouldn’t give this incident much thought. It is by no means the first incident of its kind and it definately won’t be the last. That’s war, get used to it. Absurd, illogical over-reactions by America bashers are surly uncalled for. (hint, hint)

Shoot first and ask questions later. Doesn’t matter if your Iraqi soldiers,innocent men,women or children,British soldiers,or Pat Tillman.

Coming in the wake of the revelation of the British soldier killed by friendly fire, this latest incident begs the question, “Are some of our soldiers trigger happy?”  Sadly, this anomalous kind of thing makes the news, while the hundreds of thousands of innocent men, women, and children who have been routinely slaughtered in carpet bombings and white phosphorous gas attacks, escape scrutiny by U.S. media because Americans just don’t do those things. Except of course to bring freedom and democracy to the lucky survivors.

Excellent show on earth ! Keep killing more “friendly forces” you will be heavily decorated.