Ft. Hood: Gen. Casey Doesn't Rule Out Terrorism

To me his allegiance to his fellow Muslims on the receiving end of our bombs outweighed his allegiance to America the country of his birth. It really is as simple as that. He most likely viewed our foreign interventions as terrorist acts themselves and could not take the fact that he was about to become part of that injustice. After all it was preemptive and many civilians have been killed. I am not condoning his actions but rather viewing them from his mind if that is possible. Time to stop our cruelty because it is creating more enemies than we can imagine, as it should. It is a good thing we have two oceans surrounding us but even that may not stop them in the future.

General Casey,
Why do you come on TV in a fighting man's uniform? How can anyone trust you when you obviously are a deceptive person? Put on your dress uniform and act your grade!

ABC Roudtable never answers the hard questions for health care as follows:
1. When we are short of doctors now, how do you prevent rationing when we bring a flood of people to free health care? It takes ten years to bring a doctor on board!!! Why doesn't the bill call for influencing doctors to come to the USA by offering them $$$$.

2. If 500 billion $$$$ is taken out of medicare over the next ten years, how do you cover the 30 million projected to retire??

Terrorism? Of COURSE IT IS/Was!! He wasn't yelling, "Sale at the PX"! There has been no mention of authorities checking out his Mosque?Imam. The connection HAS to be THERE!

General Casey, They pay you the big bucks for this comment? Of COURSE it IS Terrorism! Any one can see this, any one! Everyone is so worried about being Politically Correct! Screw PC! If it walks like a duck.....Your'e smart, fill in the rest!

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 terorists.

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 organizations.

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, the scene of Thursday's horrific shooting spree.

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When I was in the military, I had different uniforms for different duties. Does the General think that talking to the American public on TV on a Sunday in a studio setting really needs him to wear his battle dress? Shows some lack of judgment. But then, isn't lack of judgment why no one blew the whistle on the killer given all the signals he was sending?

What is this? So far they have come up empty on finding any connection to this guy and other terrorist's. Fanning the flames.

Ron, this story is about Fort Hood, not health Care!

This makes me SICK!. He killed alot of people and because he has a Muslim sounding last name now all the armchair patriots jump on it. I think what this is simply is a MURDERING nut case. NOTHING more... What is next someone here is going to say he is Osama's long lost cousin. I think WE IN THIS COUNTRY are far too much jumping on the terrorism excuse to justify our actions. The man went nuts, and trajically killed alot of young men and women. Why are we not calling the Seattle killing, or the Camp Leujene murder terrorism.... This is sick.

The military needs to take mental illness seriously. This man was showing signs of mental illness when he impossed religious beliefs into his counseling sessions. A rational person of any religion would not have done that. Sending him to Fort Hood to ship out to Iran was stupidity or arrogance. Forcing the mentally unstable to stay in the military puts our nation at risk.

The potential symbolism of this of this horror might give us pause. The stress on the military from the longest sustained combat operation in American history has been distilled into a single American who embodies the many faces of this nation and its "war on terror". Let us be cautious in the lessons we take from this sadness. There is more harm that could unfold.

The terrorist court the mentally unstable to do their dirty work. They use these vulnerable people who are very needy emotionally and manipulate them to carry out the terrorists cowardly agenda. All persons entering the military should be given the MMPI to screen out potential mentally unstable people. I think the killers superior officers should also be given this test.

The general needs to retire and start a hobby writing poems about dandelions and butterflies.

It is horrible that there are people in this country that just want to label all Muslims terrorists. This guy obviously was stressed over his coming deployment to a war he made clear he was against and our armed forces were still forcing him to go. Once he had moved to Fort Hood in August he had been religiously persecute by his fellow officers and he lost it. People need to open their eyes and look at the whole picture not just a nut job delusion that any Muslim acting out is terrorist.

Terrorism: The calculated use of unlawful violence or threat of unlawful violence to inculcate fear; intended to coerce or to intimidate governments or societies in the pursuit of goals that are generally political, religious, or ideological.
1. the use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, esp. for political purposes.
2. the state of fear and submission produced by terrorism or terrorization.
3. a terroristic method of governing or of resisting a government.
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Sounds like terrorism to me, the guy didn't go off the deep end strictly for personal reasons but political ones. After all if he just wanted to avoid going to Afghanistan he could have just injured himself, problem solved, he wouldn't have been sent. If it was against any person in particular he would have injured that person, he didn't, it was random, it was violence against a US policy and the icons (soldiers) that represent that policy.

Donsemora:

The shooter cried Allahu Akbar as he slew his unarmed victims in cold blood. Sounds like the calling card of a terrorist to me.

Posted by: Heather | Nov 8, 2009 11:41:27 AM
We have a volunteer Army, no one was forcing him to do anything that he didn't willfully sign up for and take an oath to do. Do you think a soldier gets to pick and choose who he will fight and who he won't? His moral conflict was no greater than any other soldiers moral conflict and if their moral conflicts are so great that they can't uphold their oath the army is not the place they go.

Does the army around a medic to carry that many rounds when on an army base. The question is always who supplied him the rounds s the question to the generals in Afghanistan is where doe sTaliban get its ammunition.

I think he had this planned for quite some time. I would call it terriorism. When he called out his Allahu Akbar. Our country needs to rethink who is allowed in our country. He will rot in hell for what he has done, and he deserves everything he gets. He should have no mercy. God Bless our United States of America.

Elsewhere, Casey says that the Army will revisit the issue of mental health as it refers to the multiple deployments.

History proves that such statements are worthless. A review will be made, Fort Hood officer staff will be interviewed, press conferenes will be held and in the end what will change - NOTHING.

Hello. Lets stop being untruthful and tell the truth for once even though it hurts. It was Terroism period. Bottomline.

So because he was a Muslim it was automatically terrorism? Wow people.

So how about the hundreds a times a year in this country that a white guy shoots up some public place, that's not terrorism right?

Why is General Casey's flag patch have the stars on the left side?

In our eyes this is a possible associated act of homeland terrorism. In the eyes of Muslims around the world this clearly an act of Jihad which is rationalized by the Qur'an. Jihad takes on many forms, information or al-Taqiyya (deception), education, then violence. The goal is always to transform the "Kafir" or non-believer to Islam faith or non-believing dhimmi.

In many ways, Hasan did Jihad by the book. Also, this the reason why al-Qaeda broadcast a video before any attacks of inhumanity. A good Muslim will study the Qur'an and the Sira or the life of Mohammad. The life of Mohammad is where the problem lies for Islam and for all other religions and cultures. Use history as a witness with the lens of Islamic conquest.

Make no mistake the Islamic external struggle is of religious, political, financial and cultural conquest and no one has to look no farther than to Iran, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan-Taliban, Pakistan, and the rest of Islamic states.

For the West this our struggle too, but for freedom, tolerance of thought and respect for all human kind.

Today, in order for Islam to be accepted as creditably religion of world peace and not a cult of Mohammad, it would require all believers to put the Sira and Book of Medina away and only hold the Book of Mecca as the faith.

In addition, the believers of the Islamic faith must seek to transformed their faith from the chains of thought of the Iron Age to Age of Peace and tolerance of all life.

Only then will Islam have the creditability and place in the world as a religion of peace.