Posted on 12/06/2014 7:38:51 AM PST by darkwing104
Five years after the Fort Hood shootings, Congress is set to make the victims of the shooting eligible to receive Purple Hearts. This benefit and honor had previously been denied them by an Obama administration which insisted that the Islamic, terrorist act was actually workplace violence. The provision states that “Purple Heart medals will be awarded to ‘members of the armed forces killed or wounded in domestic attacks inspired by foreign terrorist organizations.’ The provision is included in the 2015 defense bill which is likely to pass the House this week prior to being considered by the Senate next week. The Muslim, White House resident has threatened to veto the bill on other subjects. But it is the Fort Hood issue that is most disturbing to the former Madrasa Student.
It was House Republicans, working with the Senate Armed Services Committee, who introduced the provision into the defense authorization bill which would grant battlefield recognition to victims of terrorism on U.S. Soil. The bill makes any service member killed or wounded by terrorists eligible for both the medal and the benefits afforded to recipients. For the victims recuperating from injuries and loss of time costing them tens of thousands of dollars in medical bills, the bill would be a windfall, permitting them to receive priority care at VA Hospitals and waived medical copays.
House Republicans have included Purple Heart changes in annual defense budget bills each of the last five years, only to be blocked by Pentagon and Senate leaders
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Did Nidal Hasan ever have to surrender his $250,000 in pay he received while awaiting trial?
But when you have a muzzie for president and his PC policies....what do you expect.
The event should have never happened.
He continued getting his regular pay until the conviction occurred. That’s in the UCMJ which the military uses.
Thank God that sometimes it does make a difference who runs Congress. Let’s see our terrorist sympathizer president veto this!
And when will he be executed?
They were killed and wounded by an enemy of the United States who was defended by an enemy of the United States that Democraps in all their brilliance decided would make a good President.
You know I remember around 2006, just about when Mark Levins show went national I remember he said on one show “When it comes to terrorists Republicans want to fight them, Democrats want to elect them into office”.
Talk about hitting the nail on the head in predicting the future, and that was only a mere 3 years before they put the terrorist in the White House, 2 if you count the campaigning and election. When that happened I couldn’t stop thinking about what he said, I never forgot it. The man knows what the hell he is talking about.
I wouldn’t accept the honor.
Our terrorist sympathizer President felt a lot more angst for some teenage thug resisting arrest in Ferguson, Missouri, than he felt for the military victims of a jihadi at Fort Hood.
He’s still expecting a pardon by his enemy islamist Presidential accomplice.
Bump
“When it comes to terrorists Republicans want to fight them, Democrats want to elect them into office”
And give them tenure at colleges and universities and turn them into folk heroes.
Glad they will get the medal and benefits.
That settles it this can no longer be called work place violence, the killed and wounded are casualties of war, all benefits will be awarded accordingly, Good on republicans may they continue to fight against the democrat war on our military, the momentum is now established...the only question is will they continue to march or abandon the war to the winning of a battle.
The hero of Benghazi is now referring to it as a “non-islamic” event.
But, but, but, Obama said it was work place violence. You don’t receive PH’s for work place violence!!! This MUST mean that Obama WAS WRONG!!! It was WAR! Not work place violence. As a PH holder, it is good to see them what they should have received long ago!
Oh, and they told us it was only work place violence...more Lyin’ King antics?
Hussein has indicated he will veto..
This administration doesn’t care about innocent victims of bearded savages. They are victims, sacrificed on the altar of political correctness.
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