Maj Hasan, aged 39, was a military psychiatrist and was reportedly due to be sent on a mission to Iraq.
His cousin said Maj Hasan - a US-born Muslim - had been resisting such a deployment.
“He hired a military attorney to try to have the issue resolved, pay back the government, to get out of the military. He was at the end of trying everything,”
Forcing someone to fight their co-religionists when they object is not a very smart move - especially when dealing with Islam.
I believe the shooter set it up to perfection. Laid the groundwork in advance....”I don’t want to be at war and they picked on me because of my religion.”
(Meanwhile, he let his anger at America show in his actions and words.)If he was upset about being deployed he would have discussed it with his family but they didn’t even know he was being deployed according to the cousin.
They probably knew he was getting ready to yell Allah Akbar though. I also heard reports of shots fired in various locations on the base which sounds like more than one person aka a terrorist attack. (I can’t imagine that all of the military men and women in that room would have laid down and played dead knowing if he left there he could shoot other friends and family members.)
If our Muslim leader wanted to tell the “free press” and the military officers do NOT report this, we don’t want a backlash against the fine Muslims in our country. Would that surprise anyone? Who was it that said, “If the winds change I will stand with the muslims”?
Also concerned about the timing. Do you suppose a Physchiatrist would know that there were protests scheduled across the US both at the capital and in individual states to publicly state our displeasure about the Pelosi/Obama Healthcare takeover?
Last I saw, Medicl MAjors did not carry M4s and kick doors.
However, shooting Gomers off the wire might have happened.... he shudda stayed out of the Army.
Placing ANY of the blame for this coward's evil deeds on ANYTHING other than the coward's own shoulders is just plan disgustingly idiotic!!!