Posted on 11/15/2009 1:14:26 PM PST by SeekAndFind
In the aftermath of the massacre at Fort Hood and the deaths of fourteen people, some members of Congress demanded investigations into why the Army and the FBI failed to identify and stop Major Nidal Malik Hasan before he had an opportunity to commit mass murder. Some of the revelations from Hasan’s past, including communications with an al-Qaeda recruiter in Yemen, have Rep. Pete Hoekstra and Sen. Joe Lieberman promising to conduct separate investigations into the failure of counterterrorism efforts. President Obama warned Congress to stay out of it, at least until the FBI finishes investigating the shootings:
President Barack Obama on Saturday urged Congress to hold off on any investigation of the Fort Hood rampage until federal law enforcement and military authorities have completed their probes into the shootings at the Texas Army post, which left 13 people dead.
On an eight-day Asia trip, Obama turned his attention home and pleaded for lawmakers to “resist the temptation to turn this tragic event into the political theater.” He said those who died on the nation’s largest Army post deserve justice, not political stagecraft.
“The stakes are far too high,” Obama said in a video and Internet address released by the White House while the president he was flying from Tokyo to Singapore, where Pacific Rim countries were meeting.
There are two separate issues to be investigated, however, and nothing prevents them from being investigated in parallel. The first is the shootings themselves, which so far appear to be fairly cut-and-dried, at least in terms of identifying the shooter. Several witnesses saw Hasan shooting, and the military and FBI have publicly stated that they believe he acted alone. They certainly have enough evidence already to try Hasan, which will give the victims and their families justice.
But at the same time, we have to make sure that we don’t have other Hasans waiting in the wings, and we have to fix the failures in our counterterrorism efforts that allowed this to happen. That can’t wait until after Hasan’s trial, which could take months. Furthermore, that oversight authority belongs to Congress, not the FBI or the CIA or even the executive branch. Congress has to investigate the series of decisions made that shrugged off Hasan as no threat even though he made a number of contacts to a figure considered a suspect in the 9/11 plot and who openly recruits for al-Qaeda, behaved so oddly that his colleagues considered him “delusional” and complained up the chain of command about his apparent disloyalty, and who may have sent a lot of his money to Pakistan, according to reports from the House Intelligence Committee.
The families of the victims deserves justice. The American people deserve an accounting of the failure quickly enough to fix the problem so that more American families won’t have to cry for justice after other attacks. Fortunately, this country can walk and chew gum at the same time.
I guess this whack job was not informed their is a balance of power in this country—checks and balances. Hey Bambi. Go screw yourself! You’re just the president. Not our dictator.
I guess this whack job was not informed there is a balance of power in this country—checks and balances. Hey Bambi. Go screw yourself! You’re just the president. Not our dictator.
Right-thinking citizens of the US to Obama: “Shove it!”
(thanks to Teeraysah Kerry for this suggestion)
“resist the temptation to turn this tragic event into the political theater.”
Meanwhile bringing KSM and co.to this country is NOTHING BUT
political theater.
P.I.N.O.
for an opposing view from Lt.Gen. West. (good read)
http://nygoe.wordpress.com/2009/11/07/allen-west-on-fort-hood-massacre/
Reality check....ping
So murder is acceptable as long as it is sanctioned by the President?
I hope everyone sees that America really CAN find out what it’s like to have a dictator.
> for an opposing view from Lt.Gen. West. (good read)
Excellent read, worthy of its own thread IMO.
Because the "military authorities" are under the Executive Branch, ie. obama's control. He'll make sure anything in the investigation embarrassing to his terrorist coddling gets conveniently lost. I don't trust obama any further than I could spit. Less actually.
OMG! What a great cartoon! Sad. Scary. But excellent!
I wonder how many times the muzzy visited _bama(pbuh) at the white house.
A military installation, whether it is Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine, or Coast Guard, is supposed to be a safe sanctuary for our Warriors and their families. It is intended to provide a home whereby our “Band of Brothers and Sisters” can find solace and bond beyond just the foxhole but as family units.
Maybe his article needs a thread of its own? I thought it was truly excellent.
Can the governor of TX do anything? If so, will he?
Not exactly, It is acceptable when it is sanctioned by a Democtat President.
With all due respect, Mr. Pres__ent, stick it where the sun don’t shine. You are not a dictator, despite your own personal delusions.
It’s time to call this barbaric attack for what it is...an act of terrorism on American soil, second only to the attacks of 9/11. Whether this deranged islamic terrorist acted alone, as a result of his cult’s indoctrination, or at the direct orders of someone else makes no matter. It was an act of terrorism.
0bama’s view be damned!
Translation: Wait for the whitewash to get completed.
I like political theater, especially when the subject is “People With Islamic Connections and Questionable Loyalties.”
At least give Obama time to shred all the incriminating documents connecting Hasan to his Administration.
ok ..I’ll post it
>>Not our dictator.<<
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But not our president either — we don’t even know where he was born.
Depends. If Ft. Hood is exclusive federal jurisdiction then state authorities have zero ability to do anything. If it’s concurrent or mutual then the state can assist with the investigation of the criminal act and criminal trial, but they can’t investigate the army or it’s screw ups, if any.
Supporting his fellow Islamic jihadists. Nothing to see here.
Ditto that..he is nothing more than the Resident in the White Hut ( hut until he is out of there and the place fumigated).
Yes we do . . . KENYA!!
;-). lol.
AAAA++++!!!!!
It’s not “political theater” the Usurper in Chief is worried about. It’s the truth he’s worried about.
[[ This past Thursday 13 American Soldiers were killed and another 30 wounded at a horrific mass shooting at US Army installation, Ft Hood Texas. As I watched in horror and then anger I recalled my two years of final service in the Army as a Battalion Commander at Ft Hood, 2002-2004.
My wife and two daughters were stunned at the incident having lived on the post in family housing.
A military installation, whether it is Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine, or Coast Guard, is supposed to be a safe sanctuary for our Warriors and their families. It is intended to provide a home whereby our “Band of Brothers and Sisters” can find solace and bond beyond just the foxhole but as family units.
A military installation is supposed to be a place where our Warriors train for war, to serve and protect our Nation.
On Thursday, 5 November 2009 Ft Hood became a part of the battlefield in the war against Islamic totalitarianism and state sponsored terrorism.
There may be those who feel threatened by my words and would even recommend they not be uttered. To those individuals I say step aside because now is not the time for cowardice. Our Country has become so paralyzed by political correctness that we have allowed a vile and determined enemy to breach what should be the safest place in America, an Army post.
We have become so politically correct that our media is more concerned about the stress of the shooter, Major Nidal Malik Hasan. The misplaced benevolence intending to portray him as a victim is despicable. The fact that there are some who have now created an entire new classification called; “pre-virtual vicarious Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)” is unconscionable.
This is not a “man caused disaster”. It is what it is, an Islamic jihadist attack.
We have seen this before in 2003 when a SGT Hasan of the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) threw hand grenades and opened fire into his Commanding Officer’s tent in Kuwait. We have seen the foiled attempt of Albanian Muslims who sought to attack Ft Dix, NJ. Recently we saw a young convert to Islam named Carlos Bledsoe travel to Yemen, receive terrorist training, and return to gun down two US Soldiers at a Little Rock, Arkansas Army recruiting station. We thwarted another Islamic terrorist plot in North Carolina which had US Marine Corps Base, Quantico as a target.
What have we done with all these prevalent trends? Nothing.
What we see are recalcitrant leaders who are refusing to confront the issue, Islamic terrorist infiltration into America, and possibly further into our Armed Services. Instead we have a multiculturalism and diversity syndrome on steroids.
Major Hasan should have never been transferred to Ft Hood, matter of fact he should have been Chaptered from the Army. His previous statements, poor evaluation reports, and the fact that the FBI had him under investigation for jihadist website posting should have been proof positive.
However, what we have is a typical liberal approach to find a victim, not the 13 and 30 Soldiers and Civilian, but rather the poor shooter. A shooter who we are told was a great American, who loved the Army and serving his Nation and the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) stating that his actions had nothing to do with religious belief.
We know that Major Hasan deliberately planned this episode; he did give away his possessions. He stood atop a table in the confined space of the Soldier Readiness Center shouting “Allahu Akhbar”, same chant as the 9-11 terrorists and those we fight against overseas in the Iraq and Afghanistan theaters of operation.
No one in leadership seems willing to sound the alarm for the American people; they are therefore complicit in any future attacks. Our Congress should suspend the insidious action to vote on a preposterous and unconstitutional healthcare bill and resolve the issue of “protecting the American people”.
The recent incidents in Dearborn Michigan, Boston Massachusetts, Dallas Texas, and Chicago Illinois should bear witness to the fact that we have an Islamic terrorism issue in America. And don’t have CAIR call me and try to issue a vanilla press statement; they are an illegitimate terrorist associated organization which should be disbanded.
We have Saudi Arabia funding close to 80% of the mosques in the United States, one right here in South Florida, Pompano Beach. Are we building churches and synagogues in Saudi Arabia? Are “Kaffirs” and “Infidels” allowed travel to Mecca?
So much for peaceful coexistence.
Saudi Arabia is sponsoring radical Imams who enter into our prisons and convert young men into a virulent Wahabbist ideology….one resulting in four individuals wanting to destroy synagogues in New York with plastic explosives. Thank God the explosives were dummy. They are sponsoring textbooks which present Islamic centric revisionist history in our schools.
We must recognize that there is an urgent need to separate the theo-political radical Islamic ideology out of our American society. We must begin to demand surveillance of suspected Imams and mosques that are spreading hate and preaching the overthrow of our Constitutional Republic……that speech is not protected under First Amendment, it is sedition and if done by an American treason.
There should not be some 30 Islamic terrorist training camps in America that has nothing to do with First Amendment, Freedom of Religion. The Saudis are not our friends and any American political figure who believes such is delusional.
When tolerance becomes a one way street it certainly leads to cultural suicide. We are on that street. Liberals cannot be trusted to defend our Republic, because their sympathies obviously lie with their perceived victim, Major Nidal Malik Hasan.
I make no apologies for these words, and anyone angered by them, please, go to Ft Hood and look into the eyes of the real victims. The tragedy at Ft Hood Texas did not have to happen. Consider now the feelings of those there and on every military installation in the world. Consider the feelings of the Warriors deployed into combat zones who now are concerned that their loved ones at home are in a combat zone.
Ft Hood suffered an Islamic jihadist attack, stop the denial, and realize a simple point.
The reality of your enemy must become your own.
Steadfast and Loyal,
Lieutenant Colonel Allen B West (US Army, Ret) ]]
Bambi knows how to tell the big lie and that Americans are too brainwashed to even comprehend that they are being lied.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwjM2wVwFQs
A little different from Slick Willie’s sweeping under the rug of Flight 800 and Okla. City—those got swept under the carpet right away—I guess Obungle’s more a fan of the delay delay delay technique—pretty soon, it will be forgotten.
"I already have a Stage Trial of KSM planned for the nation's entertainment and destruction."
Amen.
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