Better SCREWED then RUDE

busybody · 11-09-2009, 05:30 AM

Degrees of Separation [Mark Steyn]

Step One:

Hasan, the sole suspect in the massacre of 13 fellow US soldiers in Texas, attended the controversial Dar al-Hijrah mosque in Great Falls, Virginia, in 2001 at the same time as two of the September 11 terrorists, The Sunday Telegraph has learnt. His mother's funeral was held there in May that year.

The preacher at the time was Anwar al-Awlaki, an American-born Yemeni scholar who was banned from addressing a meeting in London by video link in August because he is accused of supporting attacks on British troops and backing terrorist organisations.

Hasan's eyes "lit up" when he mentioned his deep respect for al-Awlaki's teachings, according to a fellow Muslim officer at the Fort Hood base in Texas...

Step Two:

Danquah assumed the military’s chain of command knew about Hasan’s doubts, which had been known for more than a year to classmates in a graduate military medical program. His fellow students complained to the faculty about Hasan’s "anti-American propaganda," but said a fear of appearing discriminatory against a Muslim student kept officers from filing a formal written complaint.

Step Three:

Thinking Anew—Security Priorities for the Next Administration

A coherent strategy to address 21st century threats to the United States, one that treats national and homeland security as a seamless whole, has yet to emerge... To help fuel this process, in April 2008 The George Washington University Homeland Security Policy Institute (HSPI) established the Presidential Transition Task Force, comprised of national and homeland security experts, policymakers and practitioners... The goal was to determine the top strategic priorities to advance the nation’s security in the coming decade...

Event Participants:

...Amanda Halpern
U.S. House of Representatives

Beth Hampton
Homeland Security Institute

Nidal Hasan
Uniformed Services University School of Medicine

Donald Hawkins
U.S. Department of Homeland Security

Eric Heighberger
Homeland Security Council...

That's quite the company for a deranged misfit loner whacko of no broader significance.

I believe it was Derb a few months after 9/11 who said that for this new struggle our watchword was "Better screwed than rude." Major Hasan represents the institutionalization of that attitude. Thirteen people are dead, dozens more will live with their injuries for the rest of their days, and a lot of families have had a great big gaping hole blown out of their lives because of it.

Anwar al-Awlaki and his chums have bet that such a society is too sick to survive. Watch the nothing-to-see-here media driveling on about pre-post-traumatic stress disorder like gibbering lunatics in a padded cell , and then think whether you'd really want to take that bet.

busybody · 11-09-2009, 06:21 AM

Another One for the “Better Screwed than Rude” File [Rich Lowry]

The Telegraph is reporting this:

Fort Hood gunman had told US military colleagues that infidels should have their throats cut

Also, the press has been full of PTSD stories this weekend. The media is basically inventing a new disorder to explain Hasan’s act—pre-traumatic stress disorder. Either that, or we’re supposed to believe PTSD is contagious and Hasan came to suffer from it by treating it.

Frisco_Slug_Esq · 11-09-2009, 06:33 AM

Yeah, it was pre-post stress, a new one even for the machinations of the loving Left...

BTW, I beat you to posting he was one of the president's merry band of misfits and Marxists.

Bam hates America! Wants to turn it into a Soviet-style commune...

off2bed · 11-09-2009, 08:01 AM

They actually refer to him as a "suspect"?

off2bed · 11-09-2009, 08:02 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by busybody

Fort Hood gunman had told US military colleagues that infidels should have their throats cut

Sounds like Trouvere.

vetteman · 11-09-2009, 08:05 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by busybody

Another One for the “Better Screwed than Rude” File [Rich Lowry]

The Telegraph is reporting this:

Fort Hood gunman had told US military colleagues that infidels should have their throats cut

Also, the press has been full of PTSD stories this weekend. The media is basically inventing a new disorder to explain Hasan’s act—pre-traumatic stress disorder. Either that, or we’re supposed to believe PTSD is contagious and Hasan came to suffer from it by treating it.

Total bullshit, we are being screwed rudely.

busybody · 11-09-2009, 08:38 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by off2bed

Sounds like Trouvere.

Yesterday

Yes, YESTERDAY

WAPO said

He ALLEGEDLY shot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

busybody · 11-09-2009, 08:53 AM

They KNEW

They did NOTHING!

The COLORED FOOL says DONT JUMP TO CONCLUSIONS

What are we

DUMB and SUICIDAL?

Officials: U.S. Aware of Hasan Efforts to Contact al Qaeda
Army Major in Fort Hood Massacre Used 'Electronic Means' to Connect with Terrorists

By RICHARD ESPOSITO, MATTHEW COLE and BRIAN ROSS
Nov. 9, 2009

U.S. intelligence agencies were aware months ago that Army Major Nidal Hasan was attempting to make contact with people associated with al Qaeda, two American officials briefed on classified material in the case told ABC News.

Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan tried to make contact with people linked to al Qaeda.It is not known whether the intelligence agencies informed the Army that one of its officers was seeking to connect with suspected al Qaeda figures, the officials said.

One senior lawmaker said the CIA had, so far, refused to brief the intelligence committees on what, if any, knowledge they had about Hasan's efforts.

CIA director Leon Panetta and the Director of National Intelligence, Dennis Blair, have been asked by Congress "to preserve" all documents and intelligence files that relate to Hasan, according to the lawmaker.

On Sunday, Senator Joseph Lieberman (D-CT) called for an investigation into whether the Army missed signs as to whether Hasan was an Islamic extremist.

"If Hasan was showing signs, saying to people that he had become an Islamist extremist, the U.S. Army has to have a zero tolerance," Lieberman told Fox News Sunday.

The Telegraph of London reported that Awlaki had made contact with two of the 9/11 hijackers when he was in San Diego.

He denied any knowledge of the hijacking plot and was never charged with any crime. After an intensive investigation by the FBI, Awlaki moved to Yemen.

People who knew or worked with Hasan say he seemed to have gradually become more radical in his disapproval of the war in Iraq and Afghanistan.