Pat Tillman: Iraq War illegal and unjust

President Bush heralded him as a hero in life when the young American football player walked away from a multimillion dollar contract to serve in Iraq after the 9/11 attacks, and an even greater hero in death when Tillman was killed in Afghanistan two years later - until it came out that the Pentagon had lied to cover up that his death was from friendly fire. What Bush did not know was that Tillman regarded him as a "cowboy" who had led the country in to an "illegal and unjust" war in Iraq. According to a newly published autobiography, Where Men Win Glory, the Odyssey of Pat Tillman, by Jon Krakauer, Tillman was far from being an unquestioning and loyal soldier after he and his brother, Kevin, joined an elite military unit months after the 9/11 attacks. The book describes the brothers as growing increasingly disillusioned with the Iraq war "which struck them as an imperial folly that was doing long-term damage to US interests".