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Call for calm after US military base killings (Obama says don't jump to conclusions...)
Financial Times ^ | 6 Nov 09 | Sheila McNulty and Harvey Morris

Posted on 11/06/2009 5:18:53 PM PST by SkyPilot

Barack Obama cautioned a stunned public on Friday against drawing quick conclusions on a shooting rampage by an officer at a Texas military base that killed 13 people.

The president made the comments as the commander of Fort Hood, the US’s largest base for deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, quoted witnesses as saying the suspected gunman, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, shouted the Muslim declaration “Allahu Akbar” – God is great – as he opened fire. Speaking at the White House, Mr Obama said: “We don’t know all the answers yet, and I would caution against jumping to conclusions until we have all the facts.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bho44; bhofascism; conclusions; crushislam; dhimmicrats; forthood; islam; obama
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To: Maumee

Who is Peters?


41 posted on 11/06/2009 5:49:56 PM PST by BARLF
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To: SkyPilot

Yea, OK Mr president.
Call me when your shuttle lands.


42 posted on 11/06/2009 5:50:10 PM PST by mowowie
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To: SkyPilot

Radio talk hosts want to call yesterday’s shootings
“11/5” , likened to “9/11”,

...as in another ‘shot’ against us by the murdering Jihadists.


43 posted on 11/06/2009 5:50:24 PM PST by bitt (“You can’t make a weak man strong by making a strong man weak.” (Abraham Lincoln))
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To: All

Does anyone know anything about this Lt. Col Ralph Peters? I’ve never seen him before, but based on his performance on the Factor, I do think I would be willing to vote for him for some type of political office.


44 posted on 11/06/2009 5:50:53 PM PST by SoCalTransplant (Old and Busted: Republican or Democrat? New Hotness: American or World Citizen?)
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To: motor_racer

“We don’t have the facts yet...” means:

We have not found all the UTube files we need to scrub...

What a great gig to have, run around and mop up all these messes happening on this watch. Bring me another damn mop... (sarc off)


45 posted on 11/06/2009 5:54:34 PM PST by pack29172 (You can learn what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.)
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To: SoCalTransplant
You've got a real treat awaiting you - there must be hundreds of articles written by Ralph Peters archived here at FR.

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/ralphpeters/index?tab=articles

46 posted on 11/06/2009 5:54:48 PM PST by hennie pennie
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To: ~Kim4VRWC's~

Oh...you mean the “BTW, don’t know if you’ve heard” speech?


47 posted on 11/06/2009 5:55:27 PM PST by Eagles6 ( Typical White Guy: Christian, Constitutionalist, Heterosexual, Redneck. (Let them eat arugula!))
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To: SkyPilot
We need to stop allowing Muslims to immigrate to our nation and keep them out of the military. These American terrorist and their sympathizers(which there are far more than anyone wants to believe) need to start getting a taste of their own medicine.
48 posted on 11/06/2009 5:55:51 PM PST by ThermoNuclearWarrior (Obama is a fraud and is ineligible for the Presidency!)
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To: BARLF
You can find out for yourself from articles he's written which are archived here at FR.

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/ralphpeters/index?tab=articles

49 posted on 11/06/2009 5:56:46 PM PST by hennie pennie
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To: hennie pennie

Thank you.....This will keep me busy for a while. I swear the man was saying everything I was screaming at the TV last night.


50 posted on 11/06/2009 5:57:41 PM PST by SoCalTransplant (Old and Busted: Republican or Democrat? New Hotness: American or World Citizen?)
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To: SkyPilot

I think we can figure out how the Zero wants to spin this so as to placate his fellow Muslims and the European elite.


51 posted on 11/06/2009 5:58:04 PM PST by crazyhorse691 (Now that the libs are in power dissent is not only unpatriotic, but, it is also racist.)
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To: BARLF

LT. COL.RALPH PETERS.


52 posted on 11/06/2009 5:59:53 PM PST by Maumee (wtw)
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To: Tallguy
I also heard that Pres Obama doesn't understand how someone could commit an act like this and wants to know what could lead someone to take this action.

I think he should ask his buddy Bill Ayers.

53 posted on 11/06/2009 5:59:57 PM PST by TNdandelion (While Obama plays with his balls, Afghanistan falls.)
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To: dajeeps

My kind of post. What does one not understand with this analogy. A “duck” test is a great way to cut though the crap. No PC, just the facts.


54 posted on 11/06/2009 6:01:09 PM PST by pack29172 (You can learn what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.)
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To: SkyPilot

bull!!!

This is what Bush told us after 9/11. (not all muslims are terrorists. most are peace loving..blah..blah, blah)

well it wasn’t true then, it isn’t true now and I wouldn’t go on a plane with one, be friends with one and if a mosque dared to open in my town i’d go down and night and spray bacon grease on the WHOLE damned place!


55 posted on 11/06/2009 6:02:47 PM PST by annelizly
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To: SkyPilot

Nothing Hussein has to say means a thing to me and never will.


56 posted on 11/06/2009 6:03:33 PM PST by ExTexasRedhead
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To: TNdandelion
wants to know what could lead someone to take this action..

Crap, does this mean he will not be trying to understand the true cost of war before making a decision on Afghanistan?

57 posted on 11/06/2009 6:03:46 PM PST by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: SkyPilot

The son-of-a-b!tch won’t even crawl to a conclusion, let alone jump to one.


58 posted on 11/06/2009 6:07:58 PM PST by RobinOfKingston (Democrats, the party of evil. Republicans, the party of stupid.)
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To: Mygirlsmom
I haven't heard anything about the other suspects other than they were released. But then...Hasan used to be dead. Who knows?

But what I'd like to know is what was Hasan's purpose in trying to proselytize to his patients? Was he looking for potentially disgruntled, angry US soldiers to convert into Jihadis or what?

I've heard of shrinks occasionally having inappropriate sexual relationships with patients but I've never heard them trying to convert them to a religious group.

59 posted on 11/06/2009 6:09:53 PM PST by TNdandelion (While Obama plays with his balls, Afghanistan falls.)
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To: SoCalTransplant

LOL, isn’t he just great?!


60 posted on 11/06/2009 6:10:35 PM PST by hennie pennie
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