Posted on 12/10/2011 7:38:41 AM PST by jmaroneps37
“The American service member is increasingly in the terrorists’ scope and not just overseas in a traditional war setting,” Sen. Joe Lieberman I-CT The insidious threat to American troops is homegrown Islamic terrorisms. Since September 11, 2001 there have been an estimated 54 home grown Islamic terrorist plots with most targeting military bases and troops.
During a joint House-Senate hearing, Rep Peter King R-NY stated “The Department of Defense considers the U.S. homeland the most dangerous place for a G.I. outside of foreign war zones — and the top threat they face here is from violent Islamist extremists,”
The session was held to determine infiltration of Islamist extremists in the U.S. military. Ft Hood The worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil since Sept 11 was the Ft Hood massacre. The shooter, Islamist extremist Nidal Malik Hasan has been charged with the murder of 13 people and wounding an additional 29 others. Hasan was influenced by, and in contact with, cleric Anwar al-Awlaki before he was dispatched by a hellfire missile in Yemen.
In an attempt to ignore the Islamic threat to appease the Muslims the Obama Administration is portraying the Fort Hood shooting rampage as a case of “workplace violence.”
This drew harsh criticism from Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) for failing to identify the threat as radical Islam at its worst. The Pentagon’s response regarding Hasan was that he was able to carry out his plot because his peers were afraid to report his behavior and radical behavior to superiors.
Because of political correctness his peers and superiors were afraid that they would be labeled as a racist and have their service career derailed if they demanded something be done about a man they knew was dangerous….
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America has lost its way and may never recover. You cant expect your government to protect you. Our own Justice Department seems to be working more against us than for us. The Democrats call for gun control and in turn they ship guns across the border to be used against our own people. The Democrat Party must be removed at any cost or else we are doomed.
I believe that elements of America will recover and flourish. That will likely not happen in our lifetimes though. But then, I'm one of the people who said that the Berlin Wall would not come down in the foreseeable future.
Obama: The terrorist in our Whitehouse who has done more damage to this country than any other terrorist group.
~ Larry Elder, "The Ten Things You Can't Say In America"
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