On Friday, I met with FBI Director Mueller, Defense Secretary Gates, and representatives of the relevant agencies to discuss their ongoing investigation into what led to this terrible crime. And I’ll continue to be in close contact with them as new information comes in.
We cannot fully know what leads a man to do such a thing. But what we do know is that our thoughts are with every single one of the men and women who were injured at Ft. Hood. Our thoughts are with all the families who’ve lost a loved one in this national tragedy. And our thoughts are with all the Americans who wear – or who’ve worn – the proud uniform of the United States of America; our soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines, and coast guardsmen, and the military families who love and support them.
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Nor do we fully care to, but I’ll settle for 75% – and brother, we are well past that threshold.
alexwest on November 7, 2009 at 2:39 PM
Unless, of course, we do know and just choose to ignore it. \
johnmackeygreene on November 7, 2009 at 2:41 PM
Yes, I’d say we’re up to about 99.9999%
INC on November 7, 2009 at 2:42 PM
What does “Allahu Akbar” mean, anyway? Don’t all the
LutheransHindusPentecostalsJewsRoman Catholicsshout that before they go on a murderous rampage?/sarc
cs89 on November 7, 2009 at 2:43 PM
We can’t fully understand Islam and why it leads so many to commit such heinous atrocities in its name. Well sure, there are those passages in the Koran and stuff, but we can’t fully understand them…well, not unless we have a good translation that is…
Sharke on November 7, 2009 at 2:45 PM
Combine this statement by Obama with the thread below: the Bushes went to Fort Hood last night while the Obamas are off to Camp David this afternoon after he spent his morning pushing health care.
INC on November 7, 2009 at 2:45 PM
Exactly right. It tells us exactly why he did it. And why others will do it again.
splink on November 7, 2009 at 2:45 PM
“Allahu Akbar!” now means: “Nondescript incomprehensible utterance with no relation to any previous reality.”
And a Muslim traitor slaughtering soldiers on their own base means “Something tragic happened somehow, somewhere, by somebody.”
Orwell must be laughing in his grave as he spins faster and faster.
profitsbeard on November 7, 2009 at 2:46 PM
Hey, instead of just sending you “thoughts”, why don’t you pay the injured a visit, bub? Oh, and by the way, should you go, leave the media at home, yeah?
Weight of Glory on November 7, 2009 at 2:46 PM
“Fully know?”
Probably not.
But we better darn well learn some lessons.
F’r instance: How many other crackpots (whether crazed Muslim or otherwise) does the military have operating in the fields of psychiatry and counseling who are actively harming our soldiers’ and veterans’ recovery?
Think a few Maoists might have gotten in, too? Maybe some Code Pink types?
I personally know of a passionate and flaming pacifist who is a commissioned officer and a “stress counselor.” He visited our college campus several times while Bush was president, expounding on the victimhood of our veterans, and leading de facto anti-war rallies.
notropis on November 7, 2009 at 2:46 PM
The “let’s not speculate” mem is fine until the facts are known – well they are starting to come in, when CAN we speculate about this?
Never?
Juno77 on November 7, 2009 at 2:47 PM
more of the kind of thinking that allowed this to happen in the first place.
Those who cannot learn from history are Democrats.
29Victor on November 7, 2009 at 2:47 PM
Spirit of 1776 on November 7, 2009 at 2:48 PM
We’ll never know, and it would be utterly futile to try and guess….
FloatingRock on November 7, 2009 at 2:49 PM
more of the kind of
thinkingrectal insertitude that allowed this to happen in the first place.Those who cannot learn from history are …doomed to re-elect…Democrats.
29Victor on November 7, 2009 at 2:47 PM
A minor FIFY.
profitsbeard on November 7, 2009 at 2:49 PM
Think of it as a “Shout out” to Allah or something.
Juno77 on November 7, 2009 at 2:50 PM
Ok … but there’s some characteristic warning signs and tell tales..
the_nile on November 7, 2009 at 2:51 PM
What happened in Fort Hood was a terrorist attack by an American Muslim extremist. Live with it.
This strategy is a form of what is popularly known as political correctness, which I submit is also a pathology and a quite virulent one – in this case, arguably the cause of death of the thirteen men and women murdered at Fort Hood.
The vast majority of Muslims don’t conspire to kill cartoonists or murder their daughters or shoot dozens of their fellow soldiers. But Islam inspires enough of this behavior to make it a legitimate topic of analysis. Don’t hold your breath. We’d rather talk about anything else — even in the Army.
I am sure glad that SOME of the bloggers and online journalist, writers etc… GET IT. PJ Media is knockin em outta the park
OSUBuciz1 on November 7, 2009 at 2:52 PM
A painful LOL.
(I would pay any White House reporter a hundred bucks to straight-facedly ask the President if that’s what he thinks “Allahu Akbar” means.)
profitsbeard on November 7, 2009 at 2:52 PM
I fully know.
It’s quite simple.
It’s pure evil in action.
bridgetown on November 7, 2009 at 2:54 PM
If AG Holder tries anyone for enhanced interrogation during the Bush Administration, I think we should return the favor by trying Obama for treason for his response to the Fort Hood tragedy. To any rational person, he is clearly putting American troops unnecessarily in harm’s way.
thuja on November 7, 2009 at 2:54 PM
Mohammad was a quantum physicist!
The Mohammad Uncertainty Principle: It is impossible to determine simultaneously both the sanity and devotion of an Mohammadman with any degree of accuracy or certainty.
Imagine all the renewable, sustainable energy we could harness by hookin’ ol’ Georgy up to a magnet and a copper coil?
alexwest on November 7, 2009 at 2:54 PM
I thought it was PTSD.
vcferlita on November 7, 2009 at 2:57 PM
Political correctness is gonna get us all killed.
jimmy2shoes on November 7, 2009 at 2:57 PM
profitsbeard, you’re simply the best!
Our country is living in a twilight zone, and may never get out of it, fully.
Schadenfreude on November 7, 2009 at 2:58 PM
Perhaps not.
And yet, I have to wonder if a deeply devout Christian pro-lifer, who had a history of making statements along the lines of “pro-lifers should rise up and fight against pro-choicers” and then subsequently showed up at a pro-choice rally and proceeded to pull a weapon and yell out an “Our Father” as he proceeded to attack, would anyone seriously doubt his religious convictions were, at the very least, a fundamental motivating factor of his actions?
Hesiodos on November 7, 2009 at 3:00 PM
An Allahu Akbar is a traditional candy bar that middle eastern peoples have enjoyed for centuries. It is a tasty blend of camel dung and sand, held together with a nougat of absolute human lunacy and depravity.
progressoverpeace on November 7, 2009 at 3:00 PM
How this inept, narcissistic, buffoon became president of this country, so soon after 9/11/01, will be the mystery of the century.
American electorate, if you repeat this mistake, the shame will be on you, and you will fully deserve it.
Schadenfreude on November 7, 2009 at 3:01 PM
To be fair, Bozo would be criticized for staging a photo op, because he couldn’t resist turning it in to one. IMHO he should go and ban press coverage.
But that’s what a leader of men would do.
dogsoldier on November 7, 2009 at 3:02 PM
Are you talking about the Military or the White house?
Juno77 on November 7, 2009 at 3:03 PM
FULLY! THE GOAL IS REESTABLISHMENT OF CALIPHATE…..NIDAL MALIK HASAN IS AN AGENT OF CHANGE FOR THIS CAUSE!!!
OSUBuciz1 on November 7, 2009 at 3:03 PM
Radical Muslims call Hasan “An officer and a gentleman“.
Schadenfreude on November 7, 2009 at 3:04 PM
Nidal Malik Hasan is a muslim terrorist who was given cover by the Obama Left’s determination to neutralize this Country’s ability to protect itself. The military and law enforcement of this nation have had to suffer and be hamstrung by militant Leftists using lawyers to destroy anyone who they could describe as using racial or ethnic “profiling” to identify the threats against our way of life.
Hasan is an anti-American individual who heard Obama’s hateful rhetoric against this Country during his presidential campaign and was taken in by it. Hasan became disillusioned by Obama, much as we all have become disillusioned. But Hasan’s disillusionment was that of a violent muslim terrorist, and our military establishment was prevented from doing anything about it because Obama has unfortunately returned this Country to a dangerous and toxic pre-9/11 mentality.
Hasan was a member of the United States Armed Forces all during the Bush years…during both invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, during the capture and execution of Saddam Hussein, and during the massive surge of troops that essentially ended the Iraq War in victory for America.
It was not until Obama came along with his anti-American rhetoric and empty promises that Hasan was given the fortitude to start down the path to jihad. Expect a lot more to happen as long as the hateful radical Left, led by Barack Obama, remains in power in this Country.
With Obama as the Commander-in-Chief, how will the military ever be able to respond to this atrocity in an effective way? They will be prohibited from disseminating the truth as to its very cause, let alone be given the ability to remedy this situation and seek Justice for the families.
How will our Armed Services be able to protect themselves from their own Commander-in-Chief?
jay12 on November 7, 2009 at 3:04 PM
I would add $100 to that bet, anybody else?
Juno77 on November 7, 2009 at 3:06 PM
We already know about the White House!
But, seriously, our Military has some self-policing to do, that they’ve been reluctant to do, and will be far more reluctant under this Administration.
notropis on November 7, 2009 at 3:07 PM
We cannot be allowed to fully know what leads a man to do such a thing.
Edited for truth.
BL@KBIRD on November 7, 2009 at 3:11 PM
Listen to Frank Gaffney live right now.
Connie on November 7, 2009 at 3:21 PM
“We cannot fully know what leads a man to do such a thing”
I willing to bet that indoctrination by a terrorist-based religion had a great deal to do with it.
rmgraha on November 7, 2009 at 3:23 PM
Gee, Barack. Didn’t your mentor make it clear right after 9/11? “America’s chickens are coming home to roost!”
RadClown on November 7, 2009 at 3:26 PM
Grow Fins on November 7, 2009 at 3:26 PM
Yes, we can.
Yes we can.
Splunge on November 7, 2009 at 3:29 PM
Splunge? Isn’t that the initial safe response when in doubt about how to think over at LGF?
BL@KBIRD on November 7, 2009 at 3:34 PM
Well, that could be a good idea
But possibly not.
And I’m not being indecisive.
Splunge on November 7, 2009 at 3:37 PM
Tripe.
Yes we do know. We had better know. Because if we don’t we open ourselves up for more the same.
It is pure tripe psycho babble that “We just can never understand.” Really??
First if that we really true,, that we really really can not understand the why,,, then how can it ever really be properly condemned?? To not understand then says that maybe there is some kind of meaning yet to be revealed, elevates to some kind of “cosmic mystery” of life. If you can not understand evil and murder, than you are a fool!
Now sure, I know people throw that term around a lot. Good people may say that or use that phrase loosely. But to speak that before the nation in prepared remarks is just wrong. It says, quite frankly, you lack understand. You are a fool. You see murder and can only “shake your head” and say (gosh, will we ever really know,, will we ever really understand?).
Here is what it is if you really lack a brain,, it is called evil! It is called murder! It is called terrorism!
JellyToast on November 7, 2009 at 3:40 PM
“I will not weaponize space.” – Barack Hussein Obama, 2008.
Delusionally ignoring the fact that the Communist Chinese already had. (SEE: Chicom Satellite Shoot-down.)
In essence, issuing a surrender declaration to our enemies.
Which, in my book, is as hateful toward our country and its future security as it gets.
profitsbeard on November 7, 2009 at 3:42 PM
%&$$#………………….(let me live in the fashion I have become accustomed to Tip Jar/donate for jebus sake button)
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BL@KBIRD on November 7, 2009 at 3:49 PM
Army Chief of Staff (MacArthur’s Old Job) Is Worried About … Guess What?
I reference MacArthur in the headline because of the famous exchange between MacArthur and FDR after MacArthur, then Army Chief of Staff, learned that FDR was cutting the army budget to fund New Deal programs.
MacArthur said to Roosevelt, “When we lose the next war and an American boy is writhing in pain in the mud with a Japanese bayonet in his belly, I want the last words that he spits out in the form of a curse to be not against Douglas MacArthur but against Franklin Roosevelt.” FDR was enraged, and he said, “Never speak to the President of the United States that way.” And MacArthur offered to resign, but Roosevelt brightened and said, “No, no, Douglas, we must get together on this.”
That was a long time ago.
In the wake of the “Allahu Akbar” slaughter of infidels at Ft. Hood (there I go again, “jumping to conclusions”), today’s Army Chief of Staff Gen. George Casey is worried but not so much, to paraphrase MacArthur, about American boys writhing in pain in the mud with Muslim (or should I say “psychiatric”?) bullets in their bellies. With some 3,500 Muslims in the in the US armed forces, Gen. Casey is concerned about … anti-Muslim backlash.
“I would say I fear it,” General George Casey, US Army chief of staff, told reporters at Fort Hood.
Casey said he had told leaders not to “rush to judgment or speculate until the investigation comes out.
“I do worry slightly about a potential backlash and we have to be all concerned about that.”
Threat levels have not been raised at US bases, and Gen. Casey has made no mention of being even “slightly” worried about copycat attacks. (I wonder if the Ft. Hood attack was in any way inspired by the Helmand Province attack by an Afghan National Policeman that left five British troops dead and British troops “mentoring” the ANP “on edge.”)
WHAT IS WRONG WITH GEN. CASEY?????????
Answer: The same thing that is wrong with Gens. McChrystal, Petraeus, etc. They are all zealots of political correctness. Otherwise, they would never have been promoted in this man’s — I mean, this person’s — army.
Where are the Washingtons, the Grants, the Shermans, the MacArthur, the Pattons?
Gone With the Wind.
MB4 on November 7, 2009 at 4:09 PM
How many of them condemn it? Those who do are apostates.
MB4 on November 7, 2009 at 4:13 PM
None of them had Muslim interpreters of Islamic intentions.
BL@KBIRD on November 7, 2009 at 4:30 PM
The Memory hole is choking to get closure on this so it can shut.
Here is what you must swallow…..
Lone nut goes nuts, grief and tragedy yada yada.
———————————————————–
Forget what you know, what you think you know and what you madly speculated on. The truth is far too scary and could impact the football season. Find another shiny object and go to sleep.
And thats how it was and they all lived happily ever after.
BL@KBIRD on November 7, 2009 at 4:37 PM
Thank you Dear Leader for those heartfelt words regarding the “tragedy” at Fort Hood. I think it’s obvious to all Americans how much you CAIR.
silenced majority on November 7, 2009 at 4:49 PM
I agreew ith Stephen Hayes of the Weekly Standard that if Mueller was not asking any questions about terrorism as a possible motive only a few hours after the shootings, then he should be fired.
Daemonocracy on November 7, 2009 at 4:58 PM
Hasan was stupid to think he could impose his belief system on others. A military base in Texas is not the place to be a devout muslim. That is tantamount of a Christian Major
joining the taliban and expecting to be treated with respect. The fact that his house was ‘diapered’ and the word allah was keyed in his cars paint job may have had something to do with pissing him off too. The guy is an ass!
sonnyspats1 on November 7, 2009 at 5:05 PM
Watch it. You might get Muhammed all wee wee’d up or something.
RadClown on November 7, 2009 at 5:27 PM
Here, this should help clear things up:
Rebar on November 7, 2009 at 5:28 PM
Yes, we do know, Obama. Hasan himself told his colleagues many times what motivates him.
This is undermining our military, from the inside out.
PattyJ on November 7, 2009 at 5:50 PM
Kate McMillan:
“Allahu akbar.” It’s the new “cry for help”.
July 10 on November 7, 2009 at 5:58 PM
In related news, the Washington Examiner has no idea whether or not the sun will come up tomorrow.
There is a very big difference between being dumbfounded and being, well, just plain dumb.
logis on November 7, 2009 at 6:33 PM
Golly; that poor, poor fellow. He went around telling every American serviceman he met that he hates them and wishes they were dead. And he wasn’t the most popular person on the fort? How mean and hateful all the OTHER American soldiers must have been to HIM!
It’s the same way the media covered Columbine: Those kids weren’t the belles of the ball; ergo, of course, they turned into complete sociopathic mass murderers.
No. I’m pretty Goddamned positive it is ALWAYS the opposite way around.
logis on November 7, 2009 at 6:41 PM
Sorry, that was all gibberish to me. Would it help sort things out if I said that I’ve never commented at LGF, and even back when I used to read the site, I never spent much time reading the comments? If someone was using this nick there, it was not me.
Splunge on November 7, 2009 at 8:20 PM