re: #187 Killgore Trout

Sadly this has quickly turned into a partisan pissing match and the first thing to go out the window is simple cognitive thinking. We do have a lot of reports that Bergdahl may have deserted but now I’m seeing speculation (without any supporting evidence) that his unit is lying, swift boating and trying to cover up their own wrong doing. Now there’s an automatic assumption that if you believe Bergdahl may have deserted you’re a wingnut falling for some sort of cover up. There’s a lot of bitching about smearing Bergdahl for people willing to smear the rest of his unit as liars. There’s more interest in winning the partisan pissing match than learning what actually happened.

Killgore, if I didn’t already have the fresh memory of Jessica Lynch and Pat Tillman in my head to question the veracity of any soldier commenting on the actions of another, I’d still be able to recall events like My Lai, where everybody involved was willing to tell investigators with straight faces that they’d found the little village brimming to the eyes with guns and angry Vietcong.