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Accused Fort Hood shooter dreaded deployment, cousin says (MSM excusing the terrorist, again)
Dallas Morning News ^ | 11/6/2009 | DMN

Posted on 11/06/2009 3:33:21 AM PST by tobyhill

Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan never served a tour of duty in Iraq. But the psychiatrist worked inside two places that have seen the terrible fallout from the war – first Walter Reed Army Medical Center, in the nation's capital, and lately at Fort Hood, the giant Central Texas base.

He dealt with some of the invisible wounds from the conflict. He counseled soldiers with post-traumatic stress disorder, perhaps getting a preview of the horrors of war that he had yet to see.

But Hasan was, in many ways, very different from the soldiers and family members who had direct experience with the pain and suffering of war. He'd served in the Army for several years but had not been deployed overseas. Unmarried, he hadn't experienced the stress of soldiers whose family life had been interrupted by long deployments that put them in harm's way.

His religion, too, set him apart. He told relatives a few years ago that he was having second thoughts about his military career because other soldiers had harassed him because of his Muslim faith. More recently, he had expressed misgivings about being sent to Iraq or Afghanistan.

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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: forthood; fthood; islam; islamobama; nidalmalikhasan; obamabinbiden; sodomhusseinobama
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To: tobyhill

If that were really true, he would have just killed himself. So once again as we all knew it would the media is covering something up...


21 posted on 11/06/2009 3:57:04 AM PST by EmilyGeiger (The problem with socialism, is eventually you run out of other people's money. Margaret Thatcher)
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To: tobyhill

It is disgusting - not surprising - to witness the spin that the tool media are putting are putting on this.


22 posted on 11/06/2009 3:57:46 AM PST by don-o (My son, Ben - Marine Lance Corporal is in Iraq.)
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To: Travis McGee

Maybe not sudden. How about the theory that he was upset about deployment because it would interfere with his (their?) plans for terror-attack on US soil?


23 posted on 11/06/2009 4:04:56 AM PST by Marylander (Obama: A Pain ... and ... a Pill.)
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To: tobyhill
More recently, he had expressed misgivings about being sent to Iraq or Afghanistan.

Another gutless coward. He deserves to be executed.

24 posted on 11/06/2009 4:06:11 AM PST by Sarajevo (You're jealous because the voices only talk to me.)
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To: tobyhill

If he had such dread about deploying, could he not have just resigned his commission?

Also, as a Major, and a psychiatrist at that, it’s highly unlikely that, if deployed, he would be anywhere near combat. He’d be doing the same thing he was in the US. You don’t kill your comrades out of fear of deploying with them...you kill them because they weren’t really your comrades and you wanted to murder them.

The article almost makes it sounds like his having heard the stories of soldiers with mental scars from deployment had caused him some sort of emotional trouble. PTSD doesn’t work like that...you don’t get it out of sympathy. Also, as a psychiatrist, he would be well-practiced in not taking on his patients’ emotional issues as his own.

I have to wonder...this man was a psychiatrist counseling our soldiers who may have had difficulty adjusting to some of the more grisly aspects of warfare, but was clearly squarely on the side of his patients’ enemies. I think it would be worthwhile to inspect just what were the outcomes of the soldiers placed under his care. Since the soldiers who saw him were actually his enemies, he would have no interest in helping them adjust to the realities of war, and it would be quite easy to conduct some psychological warfare on a person in a frayed mental state.


25 posted on 11/06/2009 4:07:35 AM PST by The Phantom FReeper (Screw Obamastan...I'm going off to find John Galt.)
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To: Bertha Fanation
All I kept thinking since I heard this piece of excrement lived is that he will be coddled for the rest of his natural life. If it were up to me he'd already be hanging from the nearest tree.
26 posted on 11/06/2009 4:07:48 AM PST by RU88 (Bow to no man)
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To: tobyhill

Yes, this is terrorism. Muslim terrorism. This guy made comments and his actions should have raised red-flags everywhere. The military should have removed him from duty.

The New York Post was the only MSM outlet that told it as it is. Front page headline is clear....we are dealing with the enemy within.


27 posted on 11/06/2009 4:08:04 AM PST by milford421 (U.N. OUT OF U.S.)
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To: lady lawyer
He didn’t want to shoot other Muslims in Iraq or Afghanistan, but he had no problem shooting 43 Americans.

It's unlikely he would have ever been handed a rifle and told to lead the next house to house search. If he had been deployed his his venue would have changed not his job.

28 posted on 11/06/2009 4:08:44 AM PST by stevem
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To: EmilyGeiger
If that were really true, he would have just killed himself.

I disagree. When confronted by real men, we have seen the "fierce Muslim male" act like a scared little schoolgirl.

These people have no spine to sacrifice themselves unless they have a bunch of their friends goading them on.

When standing individually, these guys are wimps.

29 posted on 11/06/2009 4:09:20 AM PST by Erik Latranyi (Too many conservatives urge retreat when the war of politics doesn't go their way.)
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To: Marylander

He could have been a mole. MSM & WSJ portray him as a victem. We have an all volunteer military. Immediate Background Investigation required. Who are his associates and where did he associate. Jordanian background is the only thread offered in WSJ to his world view. No doubt he was conflicted.


30 posted on 11/06/2009 4:09:27 AM PST by Broker (Sharpen the knife.)
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To: tobyhill

Tough Sh#t. When you incur a 7 year commitment for Med School on the Armys dime (USUHS), then 4 more years for internship and residency (WRAMC) you lose the right to bitch about that for a decade.


31 posted on 11/06/2009 4:09:40 AM PST by Kozak (USA 7/4/1776 to 1/20/2009 Reqiescat in Pace)
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To: muawiyah
but I'm putting my money on JUNKIE!

I'll give that a ten for originality Plausibility - not so much. He's a "true believer" doing his little part to destroy the "Great Satan"

32 posted on 11/06/2009 4:10:33 AM PST by don-o (My son, Ben - Marine Lance Corporal is in Iraq.)
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To: Travis McGee

“Yep, he was never ‘one of us.’”

True, but he thought he wanted to be “one of us” when he initially enlisted for a free education and Clinton was using the military to overthrow a democratically elected government in Yugoslavia to support illegal immigrant Albanian Muslims in Kosovo.


33 posted on 11/06/2009 4:13:36 AM PST by Fetid Facts
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To: tobyhill

I’m so glad that it’s not his fault.


34 posted on 11/06/2009 4:15:33 AM PST by Dallas59 (No To O -Time is going by really really really really slow.)
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To: Kozak

This morning I heard that the elite medical program he was part of constitutes a medical education that costs over one million dollars, courtesy of the US taxpayer.


35 posted on 11/06/2009 4:15:56 AM PST by hennie pennie
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To: tobyhill
Many questions remained unanswered Thursday night. Chief among them was why he would do such a thing ....

No, stupid reporter. The answer to your question is in your own story.

...because of his Muslim faith.

36 posted on 11/06/2009 4:19:41 AM PST by libertylover (The problem with Obama is not that his skin is too black, it's that his ideas are too RED.)
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To: Bertha Fanation

The ‘cousin’ also said the shooter made a six figure salary.

Pleeeeeasssse..... Was he complaining all the way to the bank? Why didn’t he leave the military and go somewhere else if he was SO unhappy?

H&^%, for that kind of salary, they could call me everything in the world and harass me all they wanted ... and I’d THANK them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What a jacka%$!! Am I supposed to have some sympathy for this creep? I don’t ... he did not BELONG where he was-PERIOD!!!


37 posted on 11/06/2009 4:21:30 AM PST by SMARTY ("What luck for rulers that men do not think. " Adolph Hitler)
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To: hennie pennie

“This morning I heard that the elite medical program he was part of constitutes a medical education that costs over one million dollars, courtesy of the US taxpayer.”

This is a separate conversation, but as a former military spouse who has come in contact with graduates of said program, and a physician myself, “elite” is perhaps the last word I would use to describe its training. The USUHS generally attracts people for whom there is no other way into medical school.


38 posted on 11/06/2009 4:23:26 AM PST by The Phantom FReeper (Screw Obamastan...I'm going off to find John Galt.)
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To: muawiyah
*** What we have here is the traditional "crazy military psychiatrist" ***

I've often said all psychiatrists are nuts. This guy is now on my list.

And I don't think drugs had anything to do with it. He just went 'jihad'.

39 posted on 11/06/2009 4:24:00 AM PST by Condor51 (The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits)
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To: muawiyah

Put your money on him being a junkie if you like but even if your right don’t forget that he was first a Muslim, then a junkie, and now a murderer.


40 posted on 11/06/2009 4:27:03 AM PST by libertylover (The problem with Obama is not that his skin is too black, it's that his ideas are too RED.)
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