Tonight on C-SPAN: Exposing the Fort Hood cover-up
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THE FORT HOOD COVERUP: LESSONS NOT LEARNED
Tonight on CSPAN(WASHINGTON, DC) – House Republican Conference Secretary John Carter and fellow House Members will address the politically-correct scrubbing of the Department of Defense Report on the Fort Hood Shootings tonight on the floor of the House, after the 52-page DOD report was found to never mention “radical Islam” even once.
The hour-long series of remarks will be broadcast live on CSPAN beginning at an estimated 7:30pm EST. (Available live online at http://www.c-span.org/Watch/C-SPAN.aspx.) The special orders speeches will be uploaded for replay on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/user/RepJohnCarter, prior to a condensed version being provided Wednesday.
“The report flagrantly fails to admit the nature of the attack we suffered at Fort Hood,” says Carter, “and that failure bore immediate fruit on Christmas Day when we failed again to head off a planned attack by the same radical Islamic terror network, this time on a U.S. airliner. We even had similar forewarnings as with Major Nidal Hassan, which we ignored again. Had it not been for the misfiring of the terrorist’s bomb we would be mourning hundreds more today.”
The former Texas judge wrote Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates last week that he was “deeply disappointed” that the DOD report on the attack “not only ignored the clear radical Islamic facet of the incident,” but also failed to designate the attack as either an international terrorist attack or an act of combat by an enemy of the United States. Either designation by the Secretary would make all casualties of the action eligible for combat-related benefits and awards, including the Purple Heart.
Carter, Co-Chairman of the House Army Caucus, has introduced two bills dealing with the Fort Hood attack. The Military Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act, HR 4267, protects service members from politically-correct disciplinary action for reporting or taking protective steps against radical Islamic threats. The Fort Hood Families Benefits Protection Act, HR 4088, would by law award both military and civilian casualties of the Fort Hood attack combatant status to ensure full benefits and eligibility for the Purple Heart and the civilian award equivalent.
A pdf of the Fort Hood report is linked here.
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Is there a copy of that report anywhere online? I’d really like to read it. Always liked fiction.
Never mind. DOD report is here.
“Political Correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.”
‘Nuff said.
What about Treason?
If this ain’t it, what is?
Oh great. I can see it coming now: “We need legislation to prevent these racist hate mongers from having access to the public airwaves. This guy Carter is waging his own jihad against tolerance and peace.”
I shouldn’t even joke like this because it might give them an idea.
I understand that we wanted to show the world we were not on the warpath against Islam. We have shown due deference and now it is time to show that although we are peaceful, we are mighty and we will not tolerate agression. Personally, I think Obama was a fool for thinking he could change attitudes towards the Great Satan, but we tried, and it failed. It is time to move on and to prosecute the war against terror properly.
It’s the new “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy.
DVR is set.
This “historic” administration is amazing. They refuse to believe that our sworn enemies have and will continue to attack us! Maybe someone should repeat their oath of office back to them, speaking a little slower this time. Hopefully they will understand what that oath means the second time around.
wishful thinking Z, these people know exactly what they are doing and they are doing exactly as they know.
If the report says anything other than the fact that the incident is an attack on U.S. soil by forces of a foreign power, than it is a bigger waste of trees than a squadron of spotted owls.
The one thing none of these clowns in DC have answered yet:
Why are soldiers disarmed while on base? That is the most brain damaged policy I have ever heard of.
Biden was right. Gird your loins. The only thing I would add is arm yourself.
You’re probably right, right!
If any person who is of the rop type in our military, our government will see to it they will not get the same ‘look into what is going on’ as others who serve. My heart aches for all who serve that have to deal with this bho and his new ‘get along with whoever they might have to come in contact with’. Those who serve are he!! if you do or he!! if you don’t!
The bottom line is, this man was seen to be somewhat a tiny bit funky and NO one seemed to get a grip. How many others like him are out there in our military?
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Just read the report. Carter is dead on target. Lots of stuff about seminars, awareness programs, PTSD, “self-radicalization” (?) and half of it talks about responding to the violence that occurs when this PC nonsense fails. Then at the end there’s this (p.81)
Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot. The sweeping PC irrelevance of this twaddle to the case at hand is just bizarre. Radical Islam/Jihad does not appear in the report – Islam/Muslim only in the context of accomodation with other religions in the DoD. Hassan is still the “alledged” shooter.
Please pray for our troops. It would seem their government who puts them in harms way does not know who their enemy is.
Time to Protect our troops and our US citizens from these fanatical islamic enemies.
Provide for the common defense!
Carter was ok. The GA guy is prattling on. Could be muc, much better. Hardly any House members in attendance…no surprise there. Why can’t they just get to the heart of the matter without the melodrama?
1. Report was ridiculous.
2. Hassan was a traitor and a terrorist. Military tribunal and execution.
3. PC is causing so much harm to our defense.
4. The administration…well, it is aiding and abetting the enemy.
Biden: “In six months he’ll be tested…”
And found sorely wanton.
Everyone should know that merely saying the words ‘radical Islam’ gives us added protection and will prevent future terrorist attacks.
sarc/ off
HR 4267 is not a bad idea, though it should apply to any one who threatens us for any reason. I want all the crazy people who will climb the clock tower, to do us harm, taken care of, immediately.
Is that what you think this is saying?
I wonder if Gates had his PDF checked by the CFR. Sure smells like treason to me. By the moon god worshiper, and our government PC crowd.
I like to profile the enemy, and I suggest all of us stay alert to the ROP, illegal alien POS, and acts of G-d.
BZO, or Die!
Either designation by the Secretary would earn him a pink slip.
What an inane statement. When you call attention to something as to exactly what it is, as opposed to vague euphemisms or ignore it altogether, of course there are inherent protections that may result. Forewarned is forearmed as it were. I bet you played an ostrich in your school play.
On February 2nd, 2010 at 8:30 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:
Biden: “In six months he’ll be tested…”
And found sorely wanton.
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Agreed – except that “wanton” was Bill Clinton. “Wanting” is Pres. Obama.
Biden himself did, indeed, warn us – in the guise of campaigning for Obama, no less!
There is no such thing as ‘radical’ islam. The problem is islam. They want to kill us, dominate us, take us back to the 8th century.
As Newt said, time to discriminate and profile. Period. Anything less, in my view, is treason.
Until we cancel any and all Muslim immigration into the USA we will be open to more attacks.
What rocket scientist allowed Muslim men to get into the service anyways? What idiocy!!
Islam is not a peaceful religion and until our political and military leaders get that we are in deep doo doo.