EXCLUSIVE: Fort Hood suspect contacted Muslim extremists - Washington Times »
Posted By gbudavid 2 weeks, 1 day ago in Political News
Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan had contacted numerous Muslim extremists -- some of whom are under federal investigation -- before last week's rampage, The Washington Times has learned.
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hyperbola2 weeks, 1 day ago
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I wonder why the right-wing "israel-first" propaganda sites are not harping about the "religion" of the many more similar cases that involve "christians".
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The Fort Carson Murder Spree
Soldiers returning from Iraq have been charged in at least 11 murders at America's third-largest Army base. Did the military's own negligence contribute to the slayings?
http://www.propeller.com/story/2009/11/10/fort-car...
Frankly we shouldn't be surprised that these kinds of incidents are increasing. Our "elite" has been working ever since Reagan on creating a "permanent underclass" of Americans that have few alternatives in life to becoming military cannon fodder for "elite" imperialistic wet dreams. Hence the constant undercurrent of stories in recent years about our military filling up with "druggies", "gang members", "end-times religious fanatics", .....
Seems that creating an all-professional Army in America was a HUGE mistake that now threatens our democracy.-
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hyperbola2 weeks, 1 day ago
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America Owned by Its Army
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http://www.propeller.com/story/2009/11/08/america-...
It is possible that the creation of an all-professional American army was the most dangerous decision ever taken by Congress. The nation now confronts a political crisis in which the issue has become an undeclared contest between Pentagon power and that of a newly elected president.
Barack Obama has yet to declare his decision on the war in Afghanistan, and there is every reason to think that he will follow military opinion. Yet he is under immense pressure from his Republican opponents to, in effect, renounce his presidential power, and step aside from the fundamental strategic decisions of the nation. ....
....The Vietnam war was opposed by the public by the 1970s, when according to the Pentagon Papers, the government itself knew that victory was unlikely. Today the public doubts victory in the war in Afghanistan. However the version of Vietnam history most Americans (who were not there!) read today says there really was no defeat at all.
It is argued that there was only a collapse of civilian support for the war, caused by the liberal press, producing popular disaffection both at home and inside the conscript army, with a breakdown of military discipline, “fraggings” (murders) of aggressive combat leaders, and demoralization in the ranks. This is the version most military officers believe today.
It is an American version of the “stab in the back” myth believed in German military and right-wing political circles after the first world war. ....
...After Vietnam, Congress ended conscription (which in that war had become heavily corrupt: the poor and working classes were drafted, while many of the privileged had influential families and found complacent doctors or college deans willing to hand over unjustified draft exemptions to those -- like the future Vice President Richard Cheney -- who had “other priorities” than patriotism and national service. -
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Endoscopy2 weeks, 1 day ago
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hyper the friend of Muslim terrorists is at it again. Red herring other silly, biased, and false attacks on the opposition. Since 9/11 there have been over 10,000 documented cases of Muslim terrorist attacks killing people. Lets see hyper demonstrate that same equivalent number of terrorism by ANY other religion.
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The fact that hyper will not be able to do that is why I ignore hyper's rants most of the time. -
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Tangent0012 weeks, 1 day ago
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Hasan did make contact with many Muslim organizations. He was attempting to construct a mechanism through which the military could identify those Muslims who might be morally divided about having to go into war against other Muslims.
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That this man was potentially psychotic, I think, is the more relevant conversation. Nobody blames Timothy McVeigh's actions on Christianity, the puke was a loon. This puke is a loon. -
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