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So much for the Chinese grad student report by the Chicago Sun-Times. The Sun-Times is as usual full of crap.
1 posted on 04/17/2007 8:11:47 AM PDT by ribosomal soup
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South Koreans have mandatory military service for men over 18. It’s likely Cho learned his stuff there.

South Korea, what a great ally she is.


2 posted on 04/17/2007 8:17:50 AM PDT by ribosomal soup
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South Korea hoped that the tragedy would not "stir up racial prejudice or confrontation."

The Foreign Ministry wasting no time in playing the race victim card!

I guess they must be thinking about all the Arabs randomly attacked in the street by Americans after 9/11 - oh wait, that didn't happen!

3 posted on 04/17/2007 8:19:12 AM PDT by SirJohnBarleycorn
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HAHAHAHAHA!!!

So much for the left’s non-stereotypes! He’s Asian, he must be CHINESE! I try to tell my young children that not all asian people are Chinese, but they are but children. The media, well... maybe they are but children as well.


4 posted on 04/17/2007 8:21:33 AM PDT by Southerngl (TEAM BIRKHEAD Longstanding member of the FIRM)
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Have they announced yet what mosque he attends?


6 posted on 04/17/2007 8:24:01 AM PDT by Ozone34
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Va Tech has been doing a good job of clearing his name from their directory.
http://www.googlesyndicatedsearch.com/u/virginiatech?q=Cho+Seung-Hui&btnG=Search&hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&domains=vt.edu


9 posted on 04/17/2007 8:28:01 AM PDT by mnehring (McCain '08 -------------------------------------- just kidding...)
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"He was a loner, and we're having difficulty finding information about him," school spokesman Larry Hincker said.

I wish that someone would ask Hincker about this statement he made earlier this week, concerning the General Assembly's defeat of a bill that would have given college students and employees the right to carry handguns on campus :

Virginia Tech spokesman Larry Hincker was happy to hear the bill was defeated. "I'm sure the university community is appreciative of the General Assembly's actions because this will help parents, students, faculty and visitors feel safe on our campus."

http://www.roanoke.com/news/roanoke/wb/wb/xp-50658

11 posted on 04/17/2007 8:33:55 AM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner ("Si vis pacem para bellum")
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Agreed. What or who gave the initial information that the shooter was a Chinese student on a visa?


12 posted on 04/17/2007 8:36:56 AM PDT by Enterprise (I can't talk about liberals anymore because some of the words will get me sent to rehab.)
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No way this guy's an English major (IMO)! It's a typical journalistic rush to a scoop without double checking!

A South Korean English major??? Nah, it doesn't pass the smell test.

A South Korean English major on a killing rampage in an engineering building??? You've got to be kidding.

My guess is that some low level clerk checking the University's records saw the student's college listed as ENG (abbreviation for ENGineering) and assumed it stood for ENGlish. They probably passed that mistake on to a university administrator/spokesman and then on to a reporter.

It'll be days before the MSM gets it straightened out, and by then the public will be too bamboozled to every get it right.

13 posted on 04/17/2007 8:39:07 AM PDT by delacoert
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A gunman suspected of carrying out the Virginia Tech massacre that left 33 people dead

WTF! Suspected??

15 posted on 04/17/2007 8:41:27 AM PDT by chaos_5
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If this had been in S. Korea and an American student had committed mass murders; Americans would not be safe in public and embassies would be under seize. There would be anarchy in the streets of Seoul. Here we just blame Bush again! Sad, sad, sad... not sad in that we do not riot, but sad in the lack of national unity within America!

LLS

18 posted on 04/17/2007 8:44:29 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (Preserve America... kill terrorists... destroy dims!)
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Somebody posted a link last night to a board with the gun dealer who claimed to have sold him the gun and who correctly said his name was Cho and the receipt was found on him.
40 posted on 04/17/2007 9:11:38 AM PDT by jordan8
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‘South Korea’s Foreign Ministry also expressed its condolences, saying there was no known motive for the shootings and that South Korea hoped that the tragedy would not “stir up racial prejudice or confrontation.”’

Oh good God.

Why is it the US is assumed always to be full of these problems, and noone else is?

What kind of statement is this to a victim?


41 posted on 04/17/2007 9:12:36 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue.)
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Has South Korean released a statement yet? I am surprised if they have not. This is a horrible situation for South Korea I am sure. They are probably very embarassed. I am sad that it is a South Korean one of our allies. The South Koreans are such nice and great people. I am surprised that this even happened because they tend to be very even tempered. I was stationed there for four years.


42 posted on 04/17/2007 9:16:53 AM PDT by napscoordinator (.)
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Shouldn't we now hear demands to withdrawl all police and swat and security from the state of Virginia, to end the senseless war there?

I mean, this sort of thing happens literally five times a day in Iraq, and the dems want to run away and leave the mad gunmen in charge and unmolested, don't they?

Or maybe what they really mean by multiculturalism and tolerance is that it is just fine to kill Iraqis but not US college students...

44 posted on 04/17/2007 9:27:07 AM PDT by JasonC
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And so much for all the freepers that were sure it was a crazed ME terrorist...


56 posted on 04/17/2007 9:51:48 AM PDT by stuartcr (Everything happens as God wants it to.....otherwise, things would be different.)
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I guess he must have been ronery.


57 posted on 04/17/2007 9:52:37 AM PDT by dfwgator (The University of Florida - Still Championship U)
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I thought the same thing. That trumped their story.


61 posted on 04/17/2007 9:56:22 AM PDT by lndrvr1972
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The “Ismail Ax” that he refers to that he wrote on his arm in red could refer to this guy the guy in the middle on the third picture:
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://narcissik-ax.skyblog.com/&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=3&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3D%2522ismail%2Bax%2522%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26hs%3DkJB


63 posted on 04/17/2007 9:58:19 AM PDT by ArtyFO (I love to smoke cigars when I adjust artillery fire at the moonbat loonery.)
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I am Korean and I HAVE NEVER BEEN attacked because of this massacre. I don’t what backlash they are even talking about. Same old day for me. Nothing unusual other than I am very saddened about what happened. I have other things to worry about right now. I am sick of this God d*** race card game. The murderer being Korean does not change anything. It’s horrifying no matter what. Seung-Hui Cho is a f*** up.


80 posted on 04/17/2007 11:54:07 PM PDT by Ptarmigan
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