Virginia Tech Commander Speaks at Republican Convention

You Tube ^ | 31 May 2009 | Adnan Barqawi

[sybilll]

Thanks for sharing this with us. He hit it out of the ballpark with that speech. It needs much, much more airplay.

[AppyPappy]

Because he was raised Muslim. They don’t like people going off the reservation.

[103198]

I have spoken with RPV several times today about the speech and asked when the DVD will be available. At this point, I understand that they will try and obtain the rights to distribute and copy the video for free - but I find it hard to believe that it will end up this way since they need all the funds they can get to fight Terry after June 9th. I'll know when it is available and will post at Freepers when I learn anything.

[Cathy]

Sounds a little paranoid. I don’t even know if he was a practicing Muslim, only that he is not one now - from his comments in his speech.

[Cathy]

Great, thanks. Not sure how much money they could make when it is on Youtube free, but I supposed their copy would be better quality, etc.

Let me know when it is available.

[AppyPappy]

He was a practicing Muslim. You do not leave Islam without taking some risk.

[HokieMom]

Thanks for the thread. Clickable links:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4_0L2ZJAvQ (part 1)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zejvNWt65VI (part 2)

It’s important to watch both links the whole way through.

[WayneH]

Thanks for the links. Although I have been a member since 2000, I still don’t know some of the abc’s of posting. I saw this “commander” live at the convention, my first state convention and I felt that everyone needed to see this. I was disappointed with both the Fredericksburg Free-Lance Star and Washington Post stories on the convention.

[HokieMom]

The liberal media will never cover Republican events accurately. I bet they didn’t even mention that conservatives have moving immigration “stories” of their own.

[HokieMom]

I wondered about that.

[cartervt2k]

I’ve heard that too, that VMI cadets don’t think much of the VTCC. I have no doubt about that since VMI offers more of the full-blown military experience since it’s an exclusively military academy.

Since I was an ordinary student at VT, I don’t really have an opinion here. The general consensus around the student body was that VTCC people were a little on the dorky side but nice people nonetheless. But, I would expect a VT cadet’s response to a VMI cadet’s jibes would be something along the lines of, “How do you like going to school with 8 girls, all of them with square-back haircuts?”

[gathersnomoss]

Opinions are-a-plenty. Thanks.