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Schieffer on the Hasan SNAFU
CBS News ^ | 11/8/2009 | Bob Schieffer

Posted on 11/08/2009 7:27:42 PM PST by Saije

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To: Steely Tom

I agree with you. I am amazed that this was written by Schieffer!


21 posted on 11/08/2009 8:11:48 PM PST by milagro
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To: keepitreal
"No, Bob. It shows that the Army was afraid of PC blowback."

It's only going to get worse with Hussein in office. E.G. "I don't have any of the facts, but clearly the officers acted stupidly". Now we not only have to give up jobs to less qualified people, not focus attention on high probability security targets, but we have to sit back and watch a terrorist develop their jihad, then execute innocent bystanders doing their jobs helping America - before he's taken down.

At least someone at CBS said something fairly rational and critical about the highly negligent lack of action.

22 posted on 11/08/2009 8:21:14 PM PST by uncommonsense (Liberals see what they believe; conservatives believe what they see.)
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To: Saije

“Sadly, this shows that the Army still does not take protecting soldiers’ mental health as seriously as it does training them to shoot.”

This is another example of the military choking on the political correctness being shoved down the throats of our military by leftist politicians that can’t tell the Medal of Honor from a fraternity pin. My son is a Marine and believe me, they don’t like it any more than we do.


23 posted on 11/08/2009 8:46:51 PM PST by Spok
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To: Steely Tom
Considering that Schieffer is an absolutely reliable MSM insider to the Nth degree, this could be significant.

Agree. I was going to post the same thought, but knew that someone here would spot the source and see the significance.

24 posted on 11/08/2009 9:37:58 PM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Steely Tom

Like the proverbial broken clock, Schieffer occasionally gives the correct time.


25 posted on 11/08/2009 9:46:40 PM PST by Steve_Seattle ("Above all, shake your bum at Burton.")
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"it is not clear if Dr. Hasan actually wrote those messages. Based on what we know so far, my question is, do you suppose anyone has even asked him?"

Typical ignorant legacy media 'reporter'. It is easy to Monday morning quarterback news events. The question for a REAL reporter should be: "Did anyone in the military know about this before the shootings"? I doubt that the military has the resources to follow every quote on every militant Islamic web site, and then cross check radical quotes with names of military personnel (assuming they don't use fake names). Schieffer, you're ignorant.

26 posted on 11/09/2009 5:22:56 AM PST by norwaypinesavage (Global Warming Theory is extremely robust with respect to data. All observations confirm it)
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