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'Mission Accomplished' Pilot for Bush, Dead

category international | anti-war / imperialism | other press author Tuesday September 07, 2004 21:06author by redjade Report this post to the editors

Almost 1000 Americans Dead...
Lt. Commander Scott Zellem Died for a Lie.
Lt. Commander Scott Zellem Died for a Lie.

As expressed in other letters to the editor, I, too, would like to thank everyone for their expression of concern for our troops.

But I am writing this letter for one of the approximately 1,000 troops who will not be returning. How do we show our support to them?

On Aug. 10, Indiana lost one of its finest, a loving father, husband, a person who loved his country, family, and his hometown.

Lt. Commander Scott Zellem was a great kid growing up here in Indiana, later a great student, a great athlete, a great U.S. Naval Academy graduate and then a great military pilot after receiving his wings in 1992 at Pensacola, Fla.

He flew his plane from different aircraft carriers, including the USS Independence and the USS Abraham Lincoln.

He flew combat missions over Iraq during several deployments, including Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003, for which he was awarded the Air Medal.

He was such an excellent pilot that he was chosen to fly President Bush onto the deck of the USS Lincoln, where the president gave his famous speech declaring the end of combat in Iraq.

Related Link: http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=1078&dept_id=151026&newsid=12857435&PAG=461&rfi=9
author by paulcpublication date Wed Sep 08, 2004 00:21author address author phone Report this post to the editors

piggy backing/bush basing for this small story President Bush's chief strategist causes confusion Karl Rove spoke saying that the American's would never negotiate with Al -Qaeda just like Britain never negotiated with the IRA???

Related Link: http://www.emigrant.ie/files/indexfile.asp?id=117#34832
author by Nice Guypublication date Wed Sep 08, 2004 17:25author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Lt. Commander Scott Zellem attacked a country without even an airforce or a navy, killed enough people to merit a medal, then he got close enough to Bush and didn't kill him, and now someone has killed Scotty.... And?

author by Pricelesspublication date Wed Sep 08, 2004 17:27author address author phone Report this post to the editors

"I'll never buy or see another bottle of ketchup without thinking of him."

author by Bad Guypublication date Wed Sep 08, 2004 17:30author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Yeah, and by the look of your post, you're a real sweetheart too.

author by Tim Fitzpatrickpublication date Wed Sep 29, 2004 18:42author email shoedog12002 at yahoo dot comauthor address 7123 Main St Ramona CA 92065author phone 619 789-1122Report this post to the editors

Your misleading how LCDR Zellem died.
LCDR Zellem and three others, flying a Navy S-3B Viking jet from the aircraft carrier John C. Stennis, died when their aircraft slammed into Kita Iwo Jima, a volcanic island about 620 miles southeast of Japan, not in combat. It was supposed to be a routine training flight during a naval exercise over the placid waters of the Pacific, with few of the dangers all four knew 17 months earlier during combat missions over Iraq. I am sure this will get deleted, because its the truth.

author by Tim Fitzpatrickpublication date Wed Sep 29, 2004 18:42author email shoedog12002 at yahoo dot comauthor address 7123 Main St Ramona CA 92065author phone 619 789-1122Report this post to the editors

Your misleading how LCDR Zellem died.
LCDR Zellem and three others, flying a Navy S-3B Viking jet from the aircraft carrier John C. Stennis, died when their aircraft slammed into Kita Iwo Jima, a volcanic island about 620 miles southeast of Japan, not in combat. It was supposed to be a routine training flight during a naval exercise over the placid waters of the Pacific, with few of the dangers all four knew 17 months earlier during combat missions over Iraq. I am sure this will get deleted, because its the truth.

author by Tim Fitzpatrickpublication date Wed Sep 29, 2004 18:45author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Your misleading how LCDR Zellem died.
LCDR Zellem and three others, flying a Navy S-3B Viking jet from the aircraft carrier John C. Stennis, died when their aircraft slammed into Kita Iwo Jima, a volcanic island about 620 miles southeast of Japan, not in combat. It was supposed to be a routine training flight during a naval exercise over the placid waters of the Pacific, with few of the dangers all four knew 17 months earlier during combat missions over Iraq. I am sure this will get deleted, because its the truth.

author by redjadepublication date Wed Sep 29, 2004 19:58author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Wednesday, September 08, 2004
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04252/375276.stm

Lt. Cmdr. Scott Zellem, a native of Indiana, Pa., who died Aug. 10 while on a training flight in southeast Japan [.....]
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He did not die in the Iraq, as you say - the article I linked to didn't say where he died and only mentioned that he was in Iraq - putting the two together I made a bad assumption.

For me, the story I see is that the man who was used as a prop is now dead - a prop to make us forget the illegality of this war, the immorality of this war and also the fact that the man he was flying with pulled all sorts of strings to stay out of a war.

I suppose that Bush hypocrisy is nothing new these days, but let me ask you something: Did President Bush go to his funeral?

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