Posted on 11/08/2009 3:12:30 PM PST by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON (AFP) – The chairman of the Senate's Homeland Security committee, Joe Lieberman, on Sunday said that the deadly shooting at Texas' Fort Hood military base was an act of "Islamist extremism."
Lieberman, a former Democratic vice-presidential candidate, said it was too early to definitively state the motives of Nidal Hasan, who is alleged to have killed 13 and injured 30 on a murderous rampage last week, but said clues pointed to terrorism.
"There are very, very strong warning signs here that Dr Hasan had become an Islamist extremist and, therefore, that this was a terrorist act," he told Fox News.
"It's clear that he was, one, under personal stress and, two -- if the reports that we're receiving of various statements he made, acts he took are valid -- he had turned to Islamist extremism," he said.
"If that is true, the murder of these 13 people was a terrorist act."
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No sh*t, Sherlock.
Thank you, Joe!
At least there is one democrat who hasn’t swilled the kool-aid of political correctness.
I am listening to liberman on fox right now he is sure beating around the bush on calling it a terrorist act.
I think Peter King is also saying that it wasn’t a random act of violence.
Correction - 13 people and an unborn baby. I realize the unborn don’t count for anything with left wingers.
Is that similar to terrorism?
Is that similar to terrorism?
At least there’s a few that can call a spade a spade. This sucks.
No kidding. Just imagine for a moment - use creative visualization - that George W. Bush (or someone like him, or even Sarah Palin) is our current president. Now imagine how he or she would be responding to this event now.
It’s a shocking big deal when someone in power actually tells the truth anymore. Way to go Joe.
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