Posted on 07/17/2015 12:17:38 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
The shootings at military facilities in Chattanooga, Tenn., constitute an act of war by radical Islamists, Sen. Ted Cruz said Friday.
The Texas senator and Republican presidential candidate linked the killings to a broader extremist campaign against the United States.
“Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez was there to carry out jihad, an act of radical Islamic terrorism,” he said in a statement.
“An act of war, in which those four brave Marines lost their lives, while at least two others were wounded.”
Four Marines died when Abdulazeez opened fire on Thursday morning at two military facilities in Chattanooga. Abdulazeez, who was a naturalized citizen from Kuwait, died in the second attack.
Cruz said the gunman was not a “lone wolf” attacking American troops at random and said the nation needs to rid itself of “two dangerous delusions” about terrorist threats: “first and foremost that a ‘lone gunman’ — as President Obama described the shooter — is somehow isolated from the larger threat of radical Islamic terrorism."
“In the modern world, no one acts in isolation. Through social media ISIS [the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria], al Qaeda and other groups are infiltrating our nation with impunity while our government will not even admit that radical Islamic terrorism is a problem.”
Cruz also charged on Friday that the Chattanooga slayings are not independent of earlier attacks on U.S. military installations.
“The second delusion is that this attack is somehow isolated from previous episodes, notably those in Little Rock, Arkansas and Fort Hood, Texas, in 2009 – both of which were attacks on American military facilities,” he said.
“We need to see with clarity right now what has happened.”
Reports emerged on Thursday evening that Abdulazeez had blogged about Islam before striking in Chattanooga, though little is known about his motive for the shooting.
He first opened fire at a recruitment center before driving to a U.S. Naval and Marine Corps reserve center. Investigators believe that Abdulazeez and all four of his victims died during shooting at the reserve center.
Wouldn’t you think that someone whose father was investigated for terrorist related activities would also be on a watch list?
The whole family should be deported, their property confiscated and proceeds should got to the victim’s families.
Seems that two day later claim that they knew all about it didn’t wash too well in previous incidents.
Send the local Imam to Gitmo, raze the mosque and strongly the rest of the community move to Mexico.
Send the local Imam to Gitmo, raze the mosque and strongly suggest that the rest of the community move to Mexico, pronto...
OK...so who do we declare war on?
Keep preaching the truth! This is an act of war!
Works for me. An Act of Love to Mehico. :)
That’s not what the OP was saying. Broadly calling for war is one thing; starting proceedings for formal declaration thereof is another.
I wouldn’t want an otherwise sensible* candidate calling for war if he can’t articulate the actionable details (objective answers to: war against who? what constitutes victory? what price are we willing to pay to achieve it?).
(* - “sensible”: you may not like Trump, but as an extremely successful businessman he knows how to get things done. You may not like Walker, but he’s been an effective governor. I’d expect vapid calls to action come from the likes of Hillary or Bernie.)
Ted, obama just gave the Iranians nuclear weapons. You think he cares about what happened here in America?
Mr. Cruz, Islam, not radical Islam, but just plain Islam is at war with the U.S. Say that out loud and I’ll get excited.
The man is right on the money.
This administration needs to be fully investigated into who knows what and which
information has been tweeted out of our nations capitol. Treason.
Were any of those Marines Black by chance?
Nicely done by cruz. Credit where credit is due.
Jeb Bush to respond: “This was an act of love!”
Ted is right. He is the only one to have guts enough to say it like it is.
Bill Clinton inaction led to 9-11-2001
Obama inaction is resulting in Homeland attacks
It is like when the first bomb goes off. It will take them weeks to trace back the signature of the source material.
If the American’s did not nuke someone randomly on 12Sep2001, it'll never happen.
Islam is NOT a religion, it is a regressive political system practiced in many countries to the exclusion of other genuine religions.
Declare war on Islam, the people in the US that practice it, and the nations of the world subjugated by it. Take them out 1 by 1. Start here with the Chattanooga mosque...move on to the NYC “victory” mosque.
Islam is NOT a religion. Mosques are training/indoctrination centers for this cancerous political/social system.
Three words.......
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