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AP sources: Authorities had concerns about suspect (Fort Hood shooter)
Breitbart ^ | Nov 5 08:15 PM US/Eastern | LARA JAKES

Posted on 11/05/2009 5:36:56 PM PST by avg_freeper

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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

“Bang up job, feds!”

Probably afraid of being accused of (and they would have been) Islamophobia had they acted earlier. According to libs it`s better to be PC and have people killed than to be un-PC and save lives.


141 posted on 11/06/2009 2:09:33 AM PST by chessplayer
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To: Texas4ever

“Heard on FOX his cousin is now spinning this to...HE WAS A GOOD AMERICAN...HE WAD BEEN HARRASSED here we go”

Don`t all good Americans believe that a suicide bomber is the same as a soldier throwing himself on a grenade to save his buddies? sarc/


142 posted on 11/06/2009 2:11:53 AM PST by chessplayer
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To: avg_freeper

Well, the DU`ers fully understand what he did and why he did it. It`s the Army`s (specifically)and the US`s (in general)fault.


143 posted on 11/06/2009 2:22:48 AM PST by chessplayer
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To: antonia

The episode is unsettling for a number of reasons, most of all because it exposes a fact about our military that commanders have tried their best to ignore: the presence of radical, anti-American Muslims in the ranks. Read the rest here. http://www.slate.com/id/2080770
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The PC idiots are doing their best to IGNORE anti-American Muslims in the White House, as well as throughout the rest of our society.

Yet if WE decide to act more aggressively, then they’ll say that WE are being intolerant of those minnows who follow a cult started by a pedo, where one thousand years later they are sSTILL stoning people and beheading people.

We’ve entered an Age of Madness.


144 posted on 11/06/2009 3:02:39 AM PST by Canedawg (FUBO)
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To: Orbiting_Rosie's_Head

To be promoted to Major in this environment is I assure you, no big deal.


145 posted on 11/06/2009 5:04:32 AM PST by MSF BU (++)
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To: Mpatl
From the first moment that I heard the news, I suspected a home grown Muslim. when are people going to wake up?

We have moved along about a half an inch from the Oklahoma City bombing, where the islamist "third man" was not even acknowledged. Now our media are admitting the guy is a muslim, and that he wrote about suicide bombing, but but but.... They are doubled up in three trying to make his shamelessly evil, terrorist betrayal of his comrades all the fault of the United States.

146 posted on 11/06/2009 8:01:46 AM PST by Albion Wilde (Obama makes Bush his blame czar. --Mark Steyn)
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To: rep-always
It's worse than that.

On the Dennis Prager show, Congressman David Drier stated that there is a report that Hasan, in a PTSS presentation at Walter Reed Hospital, stated that anyone who would not convert to Islam shoud be beheaded.

Attendees at the presentation conference in the hall (these were other doctors) and agreed that this should be sent up the chain of command.

Another Muslim doctor there agreed, and challenged Hasan, telling him he was wrong.

Someone's head OUGHT to roll if this is true.

PC *IS* the Death of Us.

147 posted on 11/06/2009 10:16:25 AM PST by happygrl (Hope and Change or Rope and Chains?)
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To: happygrl

I bet it will be discovered that an Obama hack went PC on this report and told reporting officers to let it go.


148 posted on 11/06/2009 10:18:16 AM PST by rintense (You do not advance conservatism by becoming more liberal. ~ rintense, 2006)
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To: DaveTesla

Great catch


149 posted on 11/06/2009 10:22:32 AM PST by happygrl (Hope and Change or Rope and Chains?)
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To: avg_freeper

Mark Stein does a great job of shredding the pc bs and getting to reality of Islamic Killers in America and around the world:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2380112/posts

MARK STEYN: MULTICULTURAL ILLUSIONS KILL - NO STRATEGY TO DEFEND AGAINST IDEOLOGY
dakota beacon ^ | November 06, 2009 | Mark Steyn

Posted on Friday, November 06, 2009 9:36:18 AM by Mount Athos

Thirteen dead and 31 wounded would be a bad day for the US military in Afghanistan, and a great victory for the Taliban. When it happens in Texas, in the heart of the biggest military base in the nation, at a processing center for soldiers either returning from or deploying to combat overseas, it is not merely a “tragedy” (as too many people called it) but a glimpse of a potentially fatal flaw at the heart of what we have called, since 9/11, the “war on terror”. Brave soldiers trained to hunt down and kill America’s enemy abroad were killed in the safety and security of home by, in essence, the same enemy – a man who believes in and supports everything the enemy does.

And he’s a US Army major.

And his superior officers and other authorities knew about his beliefs but seemed to think it was just a bit of harmless multicultural diversity – as if believing that “the Muslims should stand up and fight against the aggressor” (ie, his fellow American soldiers) and writing Internet paeans to the “noble” “heroism” of suicide bombers and, indeed, objectively supporting the other side in an active war is to be regarded as just some kind of alternative lifestyle that adds to the general vibrancy of the base.

When it emerged early on Thursday afternoon that the shooter was Nidal Malik Hasan, there appeared shortly thereafter on Twitter a flurry of posts with the striking formulation: “Please judge Major Malik Nadal [sic] by his actions and not by his name.”

The above is an excerpt. Go to the link below for Mark’s complete oped.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2380112/posts


150 posted on 11/06/2009 10:28:25 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Does 0b0z0 have any friends, who aren't traitors, spies, tax cheats and criminals?)
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To: ketelone

From the link:

It is ironic that the same Army responsible for herding Japanese American families into the camps also drafted their young men into the armed forces to fight for America. According to Jimmy Konno, most men in the camps were willing to join, in spite of their anger.

“Most of us felt, ‘if this is our country, we have to fight for it.’ You had to prove your loyalty,” he says, then, with a strong emotion in his voice, quickly adds, “the ‘442’did prove that we were loyal. We stood together and we fought a war!”

The “442” included Hawaiians of Japanese descent and Japanese-American mainlanders

Most Japanese-American soldiers who were in the Army on Hawaii were put into a segregated unit named the 100th Battalion, which was later absorbed into the 442nd Regimental Combat Team that included mainlanders. It took some time before the two groups achieved a sense of unity.

Culturally, the battalion was divided between Hawaiian “islanders” of Japanese descent, who saw Japanese American “mainlanders” as snobbish and weak - more “European than “Asian” — and the “mainlanders,” who regarded the islanders as backward and crude. But both groups knew the sting of racism, and a sense of shared identity began to form. That took them first to Italy, where they became known for their ferocity and their courage.

In his book Just Americans: The Story of the 100th Batallion/442nd Regimental Combat Team in World War II, author Robert Asahina includes scores of heroic actions by unit members. One young soldier named Daniel Inouye, who would later become the U.S. Senator from Hawaii, was in Italy fighting alongside his comrades to take a hill occupied by German soldiers when he found he could no longer stand or walk. He did not know why.

“And later he found out he had been shot in the stomach, but he kept climbing up the hill. A machine gun nest was firing at him. He threw a grenade, knocked out that machine gun nest,” recounts Asahina. “Another machine gun nest opened up on him. A German soldier stood up with a grenade launcher, launched a grenade straight at Inouye.”

Inouye was carrying a live grenade in his right hand when the German grenade hit him, nearly severing his right arm. “[Inouye] grabbed the live grenade out of his right hand with his left hand,” continues Asahina, “threw it into the machine gun nest, blew up that machine gun nest, fell to the ground, crawled up the ground, then got hit a third time by another rifleman before he was knocked out.’

Inouye’s unit went on to capture the hill, says Asahina. “It was almost as if this kind of bravery were common in the ‘442,’” he notes.

Indeed, members of the “442” performed so many distinguished acts that the “442” became the most decorated unit of its size and length of service in the American Army. The unit garnered over 18,000 individual decorations for bravery, 9,500 Purple Hearts for casualties, and seven Presidential Distinguished Unit citations.

http://www.imdiversity.com/villages/asian/history_heritage/voa_nisei_soldiers_0507.asp


151 posted on 11/06/2009 10:30:41 AM PST by happygrl (Hope and Change or Rope and Chains?)
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To: ketelone

The above is informational.

I share your sentiments.


152 posted on 11/06/2009 10:32:07 AM PST by happygrl (Hope and Change or Rope and Chains?)
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To: happygrl

I agree and keep saying it to everyone. PC is going to keep killing Americans.


153 posted on 11/06/2009 10:42:16 AM PST by rep-always
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154 posted on 11/07/2009 12:01:10 PM PST by Freedom2specul8 (I am Jim Thompson............................Please pray for our troops....)
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