http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Tillman In the September 25, 2005 edition of the
San Francisco Chronicle newspaper, a front page story revealed Tillman's views were more complex than the hard-charging warrior portrayed by the mainstream media. Reporter Robert Collier wrote Tillman was:
...a fiercely independent thinker who enlisted, fought and died in service to his country yet was critical of President Bush and opposed the war in Iraq, where he served a tour of duty. He was an avid reader whose interests ranged from history books on World War II and Winston Churchill to works of leftist Noam Chomsky, a favorite author.[17] Tillman had arranged a meeting with
Noam Chomsky, to take place after his return from Afghanistan. The article also reports that Tillman urged a soldier in his platoon to vote for
John Kerry in the
2004 US Presidential election. A fellow soldier, Spc. Russell Baer, related conversations with Tillman about the war:
“We were outside of (a city in southern Iraq) watching as bombs were dropping on the town. We were at an old air base, me, Kevin and Pat, we weren’t in the fight right then. We were talking. And Pat said, ‘You know, this war is so f— illegal.’ And we all said, ‘Yeah.’ That’s who he was. He totally was against Bush.”