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Obama Should Present Fort Hood Purple Hearts, Apologize
Investor's Business Daily ^ | February 10, 2016 | IBD EDITORIALS

Posted on 02/10/2015 3:47:57 PM PST by raptor22

Political Correctness: The Army has announced that as a result of Congress' making victims of attacks by foreign terrorist acts eligible, the Fort Hood victims will get Purple Hearts, and civilians will get Defense of Freedom medals.

That language broadened the definition of an attack on eligible victims to include an assault by "a foreign terrorist organization." The definition includes attacks by a perpetrator or perpetrators in contact with a foreign terrorist organization or "inspired or motivated by a foreign terrorist organization" prior to the attack.

The Nov. 5, 2009, attack on Fort Hood by Maj. Nidal Hasan, in which he killed 13 and wounded 32 while shouting "Allahu Akbar!," fits the new eligibility requirements. Hasan was known to have been in contact before the attack with American cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, a senior leader in al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), and left a paper trail of support for and inspiration by Awlaki and AQAP.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alqaeda; alqaida; aqap; forthood; forthoodmassacre; fthood; ibd; nidalhasan; purpleheart; taliban; terrorism; waronterror; whywefight; wot

1 posted on 02/10/2015 3:47:57 PM PST by raptor22
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To: Nachum; markomalley; Clairity; Carlucci; grey_whiskers; meyer; WL-law; Para-Ord.45; ...

FORT HOOD PURPLE HEART PING


2 posted on 02/10/2015 3:48:25 PM PST by raptor22 (Follow me on Twitter @gerfingerpoken or facebook.com/danielsobieski)
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To: raptor22

The only apology that would mean anything is he were to reverse every executive order he ever issued — and then RESIGN


3 posted on 02/10/2015 3:49:27 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: raptor22

I would not want that POS anywhere near this.


4 posted on 02/10/2015 3:49:28 PM PST by shalom aleichem
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To: raptor22

Honestly I would not want to receive a purple heart from that shell of a man.


5 posted on 02/10/2015 3:50:41 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: BenLurkin

BTTT!


6 posted on 02/10/2015 3:52:22 PM PST by jazusamo (0bama to go 'full-Mussolini' after elections: Mark Levin....and the turkey has.)
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FORT HOOD PURPLE HEART PING


7 posted on 02/10/2015 4:00:51 PM PST by raptor22 (Follow me on Twitter @gerfingerpoken or facebook.com/danielsobieski)
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To: raptor22

The wheels of truth and justice turn slowly, slowly . . ..


8 posted on 02/10/2015 4:05:11 PM PST by Elsiejay
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To: raptor22

I thinkhe should simply apologize, and then shut his pie hole for the lext 2 years!


9 posted on 02/10/2015 4:12:20 PM PST by vpintheak (Call them what they are - regressive control-freaks)
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To: shalom aleichem

“”I would not want that POS anywhere near this.””

When his handlers hear of the objection to him handing the Purple Hearts out, they’ll be sure to advise him to do it just to tick everyone off... I swear that’s the only reason all the stupid things that are done in the WH come about. IN YOUR FACE....deal with it, pikers! They DO have transparency!!!


10 posted on 02/10/2015 4:21:36 PM PST by Thank You Rush
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To: raptor22

Have a real vet, one with the same distinction, present the Medals.

Rep. Sam Johnson of Texas is a good choice. Look him up.


11 posted on 02/10/2015 4:43:40 PM PST by Loud Mime (Rather have Obama as President than a Rino? SMART! /s)
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Weren’t they just “some folks” in a workplace incident?


12 posted on 02/10/2015 4:48:40 PM PST by golf lover (goingf)
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FORT HOOD PURPLE HEART PING


13 posted on 02/10/2015 5:00:54 PM PST by raptor22 (Follow me on Twitter @gerfingerpoken or facebook.com/danielsobieski)
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To: golf lover
Weren’t they just “some folks” in a workplace incident?

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Those are fighting words

14 posted on 02/10/2015 5:09:13 PM PST by Loud Mime (Rather have Obama as President than a Rino? SMART! /s)
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To: shalom aleichem

You nailed it.


15 posted on 02/10/2015 5:27:50 PM PST by sasquatch
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To: shalom aleichem

+1


16 posted on 02/10/2015 7:41:47 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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To: raptor22

Recipients should call in sick. Receiving anything from the lyin’ king is an insult to service members. Regardless if they deserve it. Which I’m not sure how I feel about it. Wasn’t/isn’t the intent for combat zones? I know the asshat was yelling allah snack bar at the time but......... I don’t know. Do we give a special civilian equivalent of the Medal of Honor the the guard that first engaged the asshat?


17 posted on 02/10/2015 10:26:12 PM PST by rktman (Served in the Navy to protect the rights of those that want to take some of mine away. Odd, eh?)
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To: raptor22
The Fort Hood shooter Hasan went to the same radical Saudi funded mosque in Virginia that the 9/11 hijackers and Awlaki went to.

Instead of dealing with that mosque, our government went to Afghanistan and wasted a trillion dollars.

Afghanistan is still a mess, and that Virginia mosque... is still open for business.

18 posted on 02/11/2015 6:34:06 AM PST by FBD
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To: raptor22

Obama should apologize but he should NOT be allowed to be the presenter. That would add insult to injury.


19 posted on 02/11/2015 9:48:14 AM PST by GOPJ (If you can't get on the high horse for men burned alive and children raped, what's the horse for?)
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