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Fort Hood attack likely Islamist terrorism, Cornyn and Lieberman say
STAR=TELEGRAM ^ | John Gravois

Posted on 11/17/2009 4:04:31 PM PST by Dubya

Sen. John Cornyn of Texas is joining Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., in publicly declaring that the attack on Fort Hood is likely an act of Islamist terrorism.

Cornyn wrote a letter to President Barack Obama today urging the White House not to let "political correctness" get in the way of investigating the Nov. 5 massacre that left 13 people dead and more than 30 wounded.

(Excerpt) Read more at star-telegram.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Connecticut; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: abledanger; cair; connecticut; coverup; fbi; forthood; fthood; hasan; joelieberman; joementum; lieberman; nidalmalikhasan; pentagon; terrorist; texas

1 posted on 11/17/2009 4:04:31 PM PST by Dubya
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To: Dubya

Captain Obvious strikes again! Duhhh!


2 posted on 11/17/2009 4:06:42 PM PST by screaminsunshine (!!)
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To: Dubya

Well that would mean an attack on our homeland. That would mean people are at war with us. That would mean, we would have to defeat them to win. That would mean zer0 and crew are not fit for the job.
It will never happen, and more not really attacks will continue. But zer0 is not at fault, their Bushes fault.


3 posted on 11/17/2009 4:10:42 PM PST by reefdiver (So how's that HOPE & CHANGE working out for ya ?)
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To: Dubya

What clue gave it away? His business card,his slideshow or his allahu akbar before killing?

Unfortunately we may never know if the Congress decides to wait on doing their job.


4 posted on 11/17/2009 4:13:42 PM PST by swheats (America! America! God mend thine every flaw, Confirm thy soul in self-control, Thy liberty in law!)
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To: Dubya

Likely??? Elected officials parsing their words carefully while Rome burns...


5 posted on 11/17/2009 4:15:44 PM PST by weef
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To: Dubya
Lieberman’s committee is planning a hearing on the Fort Hood mass shooting on Thursday.

I thought that 0zone ordered all hearings on the Ft. Hood islamo terrorism to stop!

6 posted on 11/17/2009 4:17:43 PM PST by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: Dubya
Lieberman’s committee is planning a hearing on the Fort Hood mass shooting on Thursday. His repeated assertions that the attack by accused gunman Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan is likely an act of terrorism has been repeatedly criticized by Democrats.

Let's hope Lieberman sticks with his plans, unlike Levin in the Senate and the dude in the House who let Obama force them to put off any hearings they were planning.

7 posted on 11/17/2009 4:19:39 PM PST by Will88
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To: Dubya
Ya think?

In other news, feathered quacking yellow-beaked waddler likely a duck.

8 posted on 11/17/2009 4:20:29 PM PST by Mygirlsmom (Obama has just declared MISSION ACCOMPLISHED in the WOT-too bad he's fighting for the other side)
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To: Dubya
..well, when you consider the White Hut announced early today that the National Security Council (NOT AGENCY) was going to “screen” all official information that comes out about the “investigation”..... seems to me that transparency, IS NOT what we can expect. Their busier than a six legged cat with the runs burying this one.......
9 posted on 11/17/2009 4:24:06 PM PST by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; bigheadfred; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; ...

White House takes control of Ft. Hood Terror Briefings.
Dinah Lord | November 17, 2009 | Dinah Lord
Posted on 11/17/2009 11:59:10 AM PST by Dinah Lord
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2388413/posts


10 posted on 11/17/2009 4:35:55 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: Red_Devil 232

There is no islamo here. No terrorism to investigate. Only a man-caused disaster. Nothing to see here. Please move along.

Stormtrooper: Let me see your identification.
Obowmao[with a small wave of his hand] You don’t need to see his identification.
Stormtrooper: We don’t need to see his identification.
Obowmao: These aren’t the droids you’re looking for.
Stormtrooper: These aren’t the droids we’re looking for.
Obowmao: He can go about his business.
Stormtrooper: You can go about your business.
Obowmao: Move along.
Stormtrooper: Move along... move along.


11 posted on 11/17/2009 4:36:58 PM PST by FlyingEagle
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To: SunkenCiv

Well I am going to post here, again, an email I received from a retired former neighbor, with description of the aftermath of Ft Hood’s terrorist Hasan attack Nov 5 - our brave soldiers -—I hope and pray that the truth comes out from voluntary disclosures from Americans about what they saw and what happened:

EMAIL QUOTE:

Sent: Sun, Nov 8, 2009 7:24 am
Subject: Fort Hood

This was sent to me from a retired Brigidare General in our golf group. Thought you’d like to read it.

Sent: Saturday, November 07, 2009 7:42 PM

Subject: Fort Hood Account from JAG officer onsite

> Subject: What happened

> Since I don’t know when I’ll sleep (it’s 4 am now) I’ll write what happened (the abbreviated version.....the long one is already part of the investigation with more to come). I’ll not write about any part of the investigation that I’ve learned about since (as a witness I know more than I should since inevitably my JAG brothers and sisters are deeply involved in the investigation). Don’t assume that most of the current media accounts are very accurate. They’re not. They’ll improve with time. Only those of us who were there really know what went down. But as they collate our statements they’ll get it right.
>
> I did my SRP last week (Soldier Readiness Processing) but you’re supposed to come back a week later to have them look at the smallpox vaccination site (it’s this big itchy growth on your shoulder). I am probably alive because I pulled a ————— and entered the wrong building first (the main SRP building). The Medical SRP building is off to the side. Realizing my mistake I left the main building and walked down the sidewalk to the medical SRP building.
As I’m walking up to it the gunshots start. Slow and methodical. But continuous. Two ambulatory wounded came out. Then two soldiers dragging a third who was covered in blood. Hearing the shots but not seeing the shooter, along with a couple other soldiers I stood in the street and yelled at everyone who came running that it was clear but to “RUN!”. I kept motioning people fast. about 6-10 minutes later (the shooting continuous), two cops ran up. one male, one female. we pointed in the direction of the shots. they headed that way (the medical SRP building was about 50 meters away). then a lot more gunfire. a couple minutes later a balding man in ACU’s came around the building carrying a pistol and holding it tactically. He started shooting at us and we all dived back to the cars behind us. I don’t think he hit the couple other guys who were there. I did see the bullet holes later in the cars. First I went behind a tire and then looked under the body of the car. I’ve been trained how to respond to gunfire...but with my own weapon. To have no weapon I don’t know how to explain what that felt like. I hadn’t run away and stayed because I had thought about the consequences or anything like that. I wasn’t thinking anything through. Please understand, there was no intention. I was just staying there because I didn’t think about running. It never occurred to me that he might shoot me. Until he started shooting in my direction and I realized I was unarmed. Then the female cop comes around the corner. He shoots her. (according to the news accounts she got a round into him. I believe it, I just didn’t see it. he didn’t go down.) She goes down. He starts reloading. He’s fiddling with his mags. Weirdly he hasn’t dropped the one that was in his weapon. He’s holding the fresh one and the old one (you do that on the range when time is not of the essence but in combat you would just let the old mag go). I see the male cop around the left corner of the building. (I’m about 15-20 meters from the shooter.) I yell at the cop, “He’s reloading, he’s reloading. Shoot him! Shoot him!) You have to understand, everything was quiet at this point. The cop appears to hear me and comes around the corner and shoots the shooter. He goes down. The cop kicks his weapon further away. I sprint up to the downed female cop. Another captain (I think he was with me behind the cars) comes up as well. She’s bleeding profusely out of her thigh. We take our belts off and tourniquet her just like we’ve been trained (I hope we did it right...we didn’t have any CLS (combat lifesaver) bags with their awesome tourniquets on us, so we worked with what we had). Meanwhile, in the most bizarre moment of the day, a photographer was standing over us taking pictures. I suppose I’ll be seeing those tomorrow. Then a soldier came up and identified himself as a medic. I then realized her weapon was lying there unsecured (and on “fire”). I stood over it and when I saw a cop yelled for him to come over and secure her weapon (I would have done so but I was worried someone would mistake me for a bad guy). I then went over to the shooter. He was unconscious. A Lt Colonel was there and had secured his primary weapon for the time being. He also had a revolver. I couldn’t believe he was one of ours. I didn’t want to believe it. Then I saw his name and rank and realized this wasn’t just some specialist with mental issues. At this point there was a guy there from CID and I asked him if he knew he was the shooter and had him secured. He said he did.
I then went over the slaughter house. the medical SRP building. No human should ever have to see what that looked like. and I won’t tell you. Just believe me. Please. there was nothing to be done there. Someone then said there was someone critically wounded around the corner. I ran around (while seeing this floor to ceiling window that someone had jumped through movie style) and saw a large African-American soldier lying on his back with two or three soldiers attending. I ran up and identified two entrance wounds on the right side of his stomach, one exit wound on the left side and one head wound. He was not bleeding externally from the stomach wounds (though almost certainly internally) but was bleeding from the head wound. A soldier was using a shirt to try and stop the head bleeding. He was conscious so I began talking to him to keep him so. He was 42, from North Carolina, he was named something Jr., his son was named something III and he had a daughter as well. His children lived with him. He was divorced. I told him the blubber on his stomach saved his life. He smiled. a young soldier in civvies showed up and identified himself as a combat medic. We debated whether to put him on the back of a pickup truck. A doctor (well, an audiologist) showed up and said you can’t move him, he has a head wound. we finally sat tight.
I went back to the slaughterhouse. they weren’t letting anyone in there. not even medics. finally, after about 45 minutes had elapsed some cops showed up in tactical vests. someone said the TBI building was unsecured. They headed into there. All of a > sudden a couple more shots were fired. People shouted there was a second shooter. a half hour later the SWAT showed up. there was no second shooter. that had been an impetuous cop apparently. but that confused things for a while. meanwhile I went back to the shooter. the female cop had been taken away. a medic was pumping plasma into the shooter. I’m not proud of this but I went up to her and said “this is the shooter, is there anyone else who needs attention...do them first”. she indicated everyone else living was attended to. I still hadn’t seen any EMTs or ambulances.
I had so much blood on me that people kept asking me if I was ok. but that was all other people’s blood. eventually (an hour and a half to two hours after the shootings) they started landing choppers. they took out the big African American guy and the shooter. I guess the ambulatory wounded were all at the SRP building. Everyone else in my area
was dead.
>
I suppose the emergency responders were told there were multiple shooters. I heard that was the delay with the choppers (they were all civilian helicopters). they needed a secure LZ. but other than the initial cops who did everything right, I didnt’ see a lot of them for a while. I did see many a soldier rush out to help their fellows/sisters. there was one female soldier, I dont’ know her name or rank but I would recognize her anywhere who was everywhere helping people. a couple people, mainly civilians, were hysterical, but only a couple. one civilian freaked out when I tried to comfort her when she saw my uniform. I guess she had seen the shooter up close. a lot of soldiers were rushing out to help even when we thought there was another gunman out there. this Army is not broken no matter what the pundits say. not the Army I saw. and then they kept me for a long time to come. oh, and perhaps the most surreal thing, at 1500 (the end of the workday on Thursdays) when the bugle sounded we all came to attention and saluted the flag. in the middle of it all.

this is what I saw. it can’t have been real. but this is my small corner of what happened.

END QUOTE


12 posted on 11/17/2009 4:44:07 PM PST by FlyingEagle
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To: Dubya

Obama is not letting Political Correctness get in the way of an investigation.

He is letting his Muslim religion get in the way.


13 posted on 11/17/2009 4:49:20 PM PST by Venturer
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To: Dubya

Any congressperson investigating the islamic terrorist mass murder at Fort Hood will go the way of Curt Weldon.


14 posted on 11/17/2009 5:26:04 PM PST by La Enchiladita (Think for yourself.)
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To: FlyingEagle

Thanks FlyingEagle.


15 posted on 11/17/2009 5:26:12 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: Dubya

The due to the voluntary nature of Hasan’s terrorism makes his actions even more insidious because the the organized jehodists now believe that they are getting help by “remote control”. What a propaganda tool.


16 posted on 11/17/2009 5:45:23 PM PST by oyez ( damnant quod non intelligunt)
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