Posted on 11/10/2009 6:36:01 AM PST by khnyny
Reporting from Ft. Hood, Texas - President Obama is slated to speak at a memorial service today at this grieving Army base, where a military psychiatrist is accused of killing 13 people in a shooting rampage.
The service, scheduled to begin at 1 p.m. local time, will be a traditional military affair, with a sermon, a roll call of the dead and a rifle volley. About 3,000 spectators, as well as the families of the 12 soldiers and one civilian killed, are expected to attend.
The tribute comes amid new questions about whether the shooting, in which dozens were also wounded, could have been prevented.
Authorities said Monday that the FBI and Army had apparently looked into contacts between the suspected gunman, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, and a Yemen-based militant Islamist prayer leader with ties to the Sept. 11 hijackers.
Investigators are poring over numerous e-mails sent by Hasan to Anwar al Awlaki and apparently to other Islamist figures, said a federal law enforcement official, speaking on the condition of anonymity.
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With his attitude to the whole thing, I don’t see how he gets out of there without simply speaking platitudes about our service members and not addressing the circumstances at all.
He SHOULD have gone immediately AFTER the shooting to offer his condolences ABSENT media and cameras and allow the military to mourn their own on this day. Instead, he has to get in front of the cameras, again, in a never ending attempt to put the attention on him.
Is the service being held at the main chapel on post?
he and the freeloader goes with the cameras unlike Bush and his wife who went right away with no national media.
He waits all this time to go unlike Bush too.
He really is a disgrace and will not even call this muslim terrorism
Is he gonna give any ‘shout outs’ ?
Wish I had a dollar for every time he used the word “I” or refers to himself.
If I were one of those family members, I would be hard pressed to not puke at the sight of the hypocritical joke. You can be sure the POS will take center stage and it will be all about him, the RAT God.
Listen closely for you will hear our brave dead in Arlington rolling in their graves in revulsion.
I’m sure I’m already on a radical watch-list. I’ll add racist to my list of government titles.
he should go but not this , he should have gone with no cameras earlier instead of waiting for the international media to be there.
Bush and his wife went with no big media so why does this man have to have camera ALL THE TIME for these events.
It is sickening and yet idiots around this country who are just too dumb to see how he is manipulating this will say good for him for going
I guess he’ll do a tap dance, and a few shout outs, tell some jokes, etc. I hope the soldiers there storm the stage in an outrage.
Please Obama, please, PLEASE make a speech all about your self, and PLEASE talk about your Muslim faith, erh,ah, your faith.
PLEASE, Obama, show us something.
agreed
for those who say this is right for hiim to go should think about how Bush went with no cameras and how this freeloader and the POS wait for international media to see them
A disgrace
References to 'I'
Islam is a religion of peace
I wonder if anyone will get up and walk out.
The Punk-in-Chief.
Agree. Where is Waste Management when they’re needed?
Obie’s initial response is the one that will be “seared” into the memory of most thinking Americans.
I deeply hope that Barack Hussein Obama is able to give appropriate and dignified eulogies for those who were murdered.
I wonder if he will visit the shooter in the hospital?
I wonder if as they pray they will also include a Muslim version of prayer.
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