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Nov. 9, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 9, 2009, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24 7 Podcast.
Why did he do it?
Why did he do it?
I could not believe I'm hearing that question all weekend.
Why did he do it?
Why did a Muslim in touch with Al Qaeda open fire on U.S. military personnel?
Why did he do it?
Uh let me tell you something, folks.
Uh political correctness and a lot of other things are going to lead to our downfall.
I mean, this is just why did he do it?
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Last Thursday, the House Judiciary Committee voted to strip the Patriot Act of a provision allowing the government to spy on people who are not linked to non-terrorist groups.
This is so-called lone wolf provision.
It was a party line vote.
All the Democrats voted to strip it.
Last Thursday, a lone wolf shouted his allegiance to Allah.
It turns out intelligence people in our country knew that he had gone to this uh radical Imam's mosque where a couple 9-11 hijackers went.
It turns out that he had been in touch with Al Qaeda overseas.
They knew this all along.
And this lone wolf, after all of this was known, shouting his allegiance to Allah, opened fire when the Fort Hood carnage was over.
Thirteen people were murdered, 30 more injured, making it the deadliest mass murder on a military base in our history.
Why did he do it?
What the hell?
Why did he do it?
And the handring began.
Why did he do it?
Last Friday, unemployment in our country hit 10.2%, coming in higher than the experts expected.
This, of course, after the Democrats in Congress spent almost a trillion dollars in so-called stimulus, including the pork, and after Obama said unemployment would not top 8%.
And a stimulus bill, if you'll recall, was supposed to contain a lot of shovel-ready projects.
Well, we learned that 65,000 construction jobs were lost.
I'm sorry to laugh about it.
Um, in the unemployment numbers that were reported on Friday.
Now, this unemployment news followed the Obama White House touting an internal report full of uh misleading hype over jobs that they've created or saved.
650,000.
It's a mere drop in the bucket.
Last Saturday, House Democrats had the unmitigated gall to show up on a Saturday night when nobody was paying attention after the unemployment number at 10.2% and commit a Saturday night massacre on this country.
It's nothing other than a Saturday night massacre.
After securing a vote to destroy the best health care delivery system in the world and replace it with a massive big government trillion-plus dollar job-killing monstrosity.
And I've got to tell you something here, folks, on this.
That Stupac amendment, I don't want to ever hear anybody tell me again that Nancy Pelosi's stupid.
She pulled a giant trick on pro-life Republicans and Democrats.
Single-issue politics came roaring to the top here.
And when she put in the Stupac amendment that convinced pro-lifers, hey, abortion's not going to be funded, we've got to vote for it.
It was silly.
I I guess now we should all get behind this bill because of this well, that's what they're telling us.
I mean, for crying out loud.
I mean, this is this this one of one of my concerns, uh, ladies and gentlemen always was you put abortion in it, if forces will rally, then you pretend to take it out, and those people suddenly think they have to be for a bill.
This is where this this abortion stuff uh I I just scratch my head.
Okay, so we've been fooled and the House been fooled into thinking that uh abortions are not gonna be federally funded under health care.
But for crying out loud when you look at the rest of the bill, it's about nothing but death.
It's about the death of the living.
This is the most profoundly anti-life at all ages piece of legislation that has ever passed the U.S. House of Representatives.
I mean, it's anti-life, depending on your age, depending on the severity of your illness, depending on your party affiliation, probably, depending on a whole lot of things.
It is anti-freedom.
And without that, you're not going to have a pro-life movement at all.
And of course, abortion funding is going to get back in there when they when they have the conf.
Oh, too bad.
Look, we had we had just it it boggles, it boggles the mind.
It boggles the mind.
It was a bad move.
This bill is gonna harm everybody.
It's gonna endanger the very ill and the elderly.
Uh it's I mean, and and nothing is going to stop Pelosi from going back in there after they get this law and changing that language in a year or two or three.
Kill a bill because it's bad for human beings.
It's bad for fetuses, it's bad for human beings.
It killed a bill, but now I guess we're supposed to get behind the bill because it's got the stupak pole life thing in it.
Come on.
And then Sunday.
Obama's chief of homeland security, Janet Napolitano, speaking to students, and the United Arab Emirates assured them, assured the students, and a United Arab Emirates, where you will find Dubai.
Home of the Dubai Ports deal.
Janet Politano is over there on Sunday.
Remember now Thursday what happened.
She's over there assuring these students that her agency is hard at work to prevent any anti-Muslim backlash.
In response to the Fort Hood rampage.
So to Janet Napolitano, at least, and maybe even Democrats.
We bigoted Americans are the problem.
Even General George Casey was on television yesterday, came out and said, I'm really worried about the uh whatever backlash there might be against Muslims and our armed forces, uh, blah, blah, blah.
So, how how is that hope and change working out, Brian?
And then is it his idiot Owens breaks four campaign promises in an hour?
This is the guy that beat Doug Hoffman, and one of the promises he made was to oppose a public option.
Now he's all for the public option.
And and Pelosi singled him out.
Uh in the vote.
I mean, uh four promises.
And uh just in the first in the first hour.
So, and now the the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall is going on right now.
It's dark over there in Germany.
And I have a story here from the State Controlled Associated Press.
Merkel thanks Gorbachev on Berlin Wall anniversary.
Now, let's be clear about something.
Barack Hussein Obama was invited to go and said, mm-hmm, ain't going.
Got a bowl, gotta play golf.
Got a concert in the house, got a date night, um, gotta celebrate health care, ain't going.
Uh, don't believe in freedom anyway.
At wall, we communists, we don't celebrate our failures.
Uh, let Gorbachev handle it.
Besides, I don't want to go over there and be upstage by Ronald Reagan.
I have not found any reporting yet.
I'm not saying she didn't do it, but I've not found any reporting yet that says Merkel mentions Reagan.
Now, she did back on November 14th in a speech.
She said Ronald Reagan far earlier than others saw and recognized the sign of the Times when standing at a Brandenburg gate in 87, he said, Mr. Gorbachev opened this gate, tear down this wall.
Uh this appeal is something that will never be forgotten, uh, Merkel's.
This appeal.
So Gorbachev's over there, and Gorbachev's, by the way, he's out there making news.
Uh he's now comparing the uh climate change effort here.
Militant environmentalism is now replaced the Cold War.
Uh it's it's that's and nations have to come together uh to uh solve that problem.
Uh How do you how do you have a 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and not mention Ronaldo's Magnus?
Here, listen to some of the story.
Chancellor Angela Merkel and former Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, crossed a former fortified border on Monday to cheers of Gorby, Gorby, as a throng of grateful Germans recalled the night 20 years ago the Berlin Wall gave way to their desire for freedom and unity.
What?
Gorbachev went over there and helped blow it up.
Wasn't Gorbachev the guy desperately trying to keep that wall up?
Within moments of a confused announcement on November 9th, 1989, that East Germany was lifting travel restrictions.
Hundreds of people streamed into the enclave that was West Berlin marking.
Did they cheer Gorby Gorby Gorby then?
No, they didn't cheer Gorby Gorby Gorby then.
And you know why?
Because they hadn't yet done the revisionist history to say oh it was all Gorbachev's foot, but twenty years has passed, and Gorbachev gets all the credit.
She lauded Gorbachev, with whom she shared an umbrella amid a crush of hundreds eager for a glimpse of the man many can still consider a hero for his role in pushing reform in the Soviet Union.
Last time I looked, there was a story last week.
Some people say, you know what?
This freedom thing in Russia is not working.
It hasn't worked out.
We got to go back to what was.
So apparently, whatever Gorbachev led Russia to is not working, yet he's still fetted here as a as a big hero for his role in pushing reform in the Soviet.
His role for crying out loud, folks.
Uh we all on this program and this audience know the truth.
Lady Thatcher has uh has said the truth.
And it's uh quite simple.
The Soviets were defeated because they could not keep up.
They were a bankrupt third world nation with a first world military.
Pure and simple.
All right, uh brief timeout.
We'll take a brief break.
We'll come back, get your phone calls in.
We got a loaded audio soundbite roster uh today.
Lots of stuff still ahead, so sit tight.
We'll be right back.
Do not go away.
Greetings and welcome back, Rush Limboh.
America's truth detector and the Doctor of Democracy.
All right, and here's here's the political correct version of uh what's in a box there, Brian.
Is it something for me?
What is it?
Oh, and it is for me if it's from home ethics is a massage people.
I love getting this is a time of year when I start love getting boxes.
You never know what's gonna be in them.
Uh anyway, the Muslim shooter, this is the political correct version here of what we said to have resented, resisted deployment to a war zone.
In a Muslim country, to resolve his anger with his country's mission and his personal feelings about Diwal.
He takes two guns and he shoots dozens of soldiers, non-Muslims, who had nothing to do with his deployment, nothing to do with the mission itself.
And of course he was being teased.
He was really being teethed.
He's a psychiatrist.
He was really being teased.
I don't know if you talk to people in the military, it's it's like being in a in a professional sports locker room.
The teasing is merciless.
Oh, it's part and parcel of it.
Everybody gets teased.
I'm sure they're not going to call this a hate crime.
I'm sure this man's inner feelings are going to be probed regarding the Bush Cheney war.
You wait.
But let's not forget this man had no problem with killing people.
Zilch Z wasn't this guy's not a pacifist.
This guy is not a conscientious objector.
He uh he didn't like Americans in Afghanistan or Iraq.
And by the way, I mean, playing the game the way the media, the Democrats knew, we could almost say that this is Obama's fault.
Because this guy said that he believed Obama was going to get us out of a rocket afghanistan.
Obama hasn't done it, and that's one of the reasons why the guy cracked.
I guarantee him, here, grab Mike, I'm gonna screw you up here.
I'm gonna go to soundbite I didn't tell you about.
Grab uh grab soundbite number 10.
This Bernie Goldberg on uh Friday night on the O'Reilly factor, and they're talking about the media coverage of this shooting.
And uh O'Reilly says Newsweek magazine runs this crazy thing about this this could be the first of a whole bunch of crazy stuff because of our bad policies in uh in Iraq and Afghanistan.
You have Time magazine saying what a tragedy of the tragedy it is for Muslims to have to go over and help fellow Americans.
Could you imagine, by the way, if Major Hassan had on his nightstand or his bookshelf a book by Bill O'Reilly or a book by me, or God forbid had ever listened in his whole life to Rush Limbaugh?
I guarantee you that we made him do it in the New York Times would be, yeah, Bill May do it.
You know, Bernie Goldberg, Rush Limbaugh, they're responsible for what happened.
All right.
Uh well, it's true.
It's damn true.
That they're looking for evidence of that right now.
So, but this guy, we're told that he told some of his colleagues that he was upset with President Obama.
Uh, he thought it was going to get us out of these countries, and uh and he hasn't uh he hasn't done it.
Now, this to me, you know, why did he do it?
It sounds like a terrorist to me.
I know I'm jumping to conclusions.
I'm not jumping to conclusions.
I am not jumping to conclusions.
I've got evidence now.
I've got I I've got I got news stories from the state controlled media, alleged shooter tied to mosque of 9-11 hijackers and hey, uh attended mosque with a radical Imam preach there.
Um ABC News officials, U.S. aware of Hassan's efforts to contact Al Qaeda.
Uh Fort Hood gunman had told U.S. military colleagues that infidels should have her throats cut and hot oil pointed poured down their throats.
They knew all of this.
That's from the UK telegraph.
Uh, Major Nadal Malik Hassan, the gunman who killed 13 at America's Fort Hood, once gave a lecture to other doctors in which he said non-believers should be beheaded and have boiling oil poured down their throats.
So, pardon me for jumping to a conclusion here.
Uh, and get the first reports said that the FBI had ruled out terrorism.
And there's another I read a column that townhall.com, I can't remember the Kevin McCullough, I think.
I'm not I think that's who wrote it, uh, quoting Stephen Hayes on the on the Fox News roundtable uh Friday night, uh, saying that the FBI was told to not investigate this in terms of terrorism.
Uh but I mean it's you know if it walks like a duck, if it quacks like a duck.
Uh I don't know.
This guy's in a coma.
This guy, why do I think that is?
Well, now that why why do I if it's true that the uh the FBI was told uh stand down essentially on the terrorism?
Uh that would be jumping to conclusions, snarling, if I were to prof up uh uh uh proffer an answer or theory on that.
But I uh I who has the authority to tell the FBI what to and not to do.
Attorney General has that authority.
The president has that authority.
I guess he plugs Biden might be able to pull it off.
If I don't even know Plugs was aware of what was going on.
I don't know where he is.
Is he in the country anywhere?
Uh so anyway.
This guy's in a hospital, he's in a drug-induced coma.
He oh, he's talking now?
He's talking.
Aren't we waterboarding him?
I wonder if we're gonna waterboard the poor guy.
Oh, gosh, I hope.
Folks, do you you really oh no, I hope, I hope they're not doing that.
Oh no.
Oh, what would that say about our country?
Oh, I couldn't live with myself if I found out we were waterboarding the guy to find out what the hell went on here.
Oh, Joe Gosh.
Snurdley, please pray with it.
It's not happening.
We are not waterboarding the guy.
Uh so he's in the hospital.
He's got the best inclusive medical care available in the world.
Now, my friends, We have seen Muslims involved in violence at Fort Dix in New Jersey.
An Arkansas recruiting center.
And by the way, in that instance, this guy, the why did he do it guy, was very supportive of what happened when the uh when the army recruiter in Arkansas got blown away.
And we've seen uh uh Muslims involved at Virginia Tech, where there's a military college now Fort Hood.
I mean, these are attacks on the military, and they are attacks on non-Muslims.
And we hear a lot about terror cells.
I mean, and we bust them up and so forth.
Might be something to dig into there, don't you think?
Might be.
I mean, the angry man defense just doesn't impress me here, folks.
We hear he got picked on.
We're gonna hear he objected to the war like so many liberals, and uh, we will hear he reached a breaking point with post-traumatic stress disease or disorder or whatever it is.
I just I really hope we're not waterboarding this poor guy.
Oh no.
Yet this headline here in the New York Times, the legacy of 1989 still up for debate, meaning the Berlin Wall coming down.
Uh the historical legacy of 1989 when the Berlin Wall fell and a Cold War thought is as political as the upheavals of that decisive year.
Um more details on that as the uh as the program unfolds.
Look at this story out of Seattle today.
Police described a suspect in the shooting death of a Seattle police officer as a lone domestic terrorist.
Said he was also suspected of firebombing four police vehicles.
At a news conference, Seattle assistant police chief Jim Pugel identified Christopher Monfort, 41 as the man shot by the cops on Freddy's.
He was sought in connection with the uh Halloween killing of Timothy Brenton.
A man from everything we can tell is a lone domestic terrorist at this moment we can't find any ties to anyone else.
This guy gets branded a terrorist outright, except he's at war with the cops, not the population at random.
So he's a terrorist outright.
Meanwhile, this Hassan guy blows away 13 and wounds 30.
We're going to examine here.
We can't jump to conclusions, Mr. Limbaugh.
We really must be very, very careful here.
Deciding how we characterize.
Well, I don't remember Obama not jumping to conclusions when he pronounced the cops up in Cambridge stupid in the skip Gates case.
And in that case, you hear see you had a uh a clear as a bell left-wing template.
You had racist cop, victimized minority.
This Hassan guy goes against the left-wing template of the victimized minority, Muslim religion of peace.
So they can't they can't apply the same.
By the way, I am I am seeing where they're saying he might be suffering uh post-traumatic stress disorder, but he hasn't been deployed yet.
So it would be in this case, it would be pre-traumatic stress disorder.
Which is, I mean, psychiatrist, he could he could invent it and apply it to himself.
Yeah, I had I had pre-traumatic stress disorder.
Now the drive-by folks are bending over backwards, searching for the rationale, any rationale for the murders uh at Fort Hood.
But actually, they're not looking for a rationale.
They're using the tragedy to justify their own personal clap trap.
Is America to blame?
They love this.
This gives them another bit of MO to shoot at this country.
Is America to blame?
Is the war to blame?
Is Bush to blame?
Is Cheney to blame for this?
Here, listen to Bob Schiefer.
Just an example.
Bob Schaefer and Lindsay Gramnesty had this exchange on Fort Hood yesterday on uh Slay the Nation.
Do you think that the fact that this man was a Muslim?
Obviously, he was either part of some terrorist plot, and I think uh most uh suggestions are that he wasn't.
It's looking more and more like he was just sort of a religious nut.
And you know, uh Islam doesn't have a majority uh or or the Christian religion has its corner of that full helping of nuts uh too.
But do you think the fact that he was a Muslim uh may have caused the military to kind of step back and be reluctant uh to challenge him on some of this stuff for fear that they'd be accused of discrimination.
Well, finally he gets to a decent question.
Of course, the political correctness is killing us all.
Political correctness is going to lead to the destruction of this country.
But you see, we have to get in there, even though no Christian fired a gun at Fort Hood.
Ah, Christians are nuts too.
Christians have no killers gramnesty, and they're saying, Oh, yeah, yeah, we don't have a corner on that.
Um, Islam doesn't have a majority corner on that.
Uh, it's full of nuts, too.
Christianity is uh man was a Muslim, and I think most suggestions are that he wasn't part of a terrorist.
No, he's just being revved up by an imam at the same mosque that the couple of 9-11 hijackers attended.
See, see, they're they're they're going out of their way uh here to um promote their own usual clap trap.
Uh political correctness.
Folk, there were signals, there were tea leaves that should have been red, dots that should have been connected.
Political correctness allowed this disturbed fanatic, Muslim religious fanatic to continue to spout his nonsense.
All the way, and but how did he become a major?
I uh my guess is political correctness is is involved in making him a major and also not acting on the information everybody had about oh, we can't be seen to be discriminating here.
That'd be uh very, very bad move.
Um, you know, all the troops, three, four or five stressful tours of Iraq and Afghanistan, they didn't come back here and go berserk.
They don't start shooting up army bases and so forth.
So this is a guy who was listening to the preaching of a hate-filled fanatic imam, and everybody's why did he do it?
Why did he do it?
Troubled alleged shooter tied to mosque of 9-11 hijackers, the alleged Fort Hood shooter apparently attended the same Virginia mosque as two 9-11 hijackers in 2001 at a time when a radical Imam preached there.
The London Telegraph first reported the potential leak, uh link between Hassan and the mosque.
Why did he do it?
Sturdly, have you found out whether we're waterboarding this guy yet or not?
No reports.
No, it's not no, no.
No, Snerdley said, I mean, there's no reports that we are waterboarding him.
No, no, you gotta look for reports that we're not.
You know, here's here's the thing.
I I I was I was gonna I was gonna I was gonna make that point, you know, because we were jumping to many conclusions here.
Uh, ladies and gentlemen, um so the guy, Malik Nidal Hassan, or I don't know what order the name's come in, but Hassan, I'll call you the Hassan guy, spends time in a in a mosque, church, uh, and there's a radical preacher in there.
Radical Imam.
Imam is preacher, pastor, minister, and this guy is just raising hell in there.
I mean, so much so that these 9-11 hijackers are in there, they're probably getting their motivation and inspiration from this whacked-out Imam.
And guess what?
This Hassan guy happens to be in there.
Um, but if we're gonna ask why did he do it, knowing full well that he's in the same mosque in 2001 with the radical preacher going nuts.
We're gonna also have to believe that the guy was just like Obama and didn't hear Reverend Wright's words when he was in his church.
Fellow doctors have recounted how they were repeatedly harangued by Hassan about religion.
He openly claimed to be a Muslim first and an American second.
One army doctor who knew him said fear of appearing discriminatory against a Muslim soldier had stopped fellow officers from filing formal complaints.
Senator Lieberman's uh no question here, there's a strong warning signs that Hassan was an Islamist extremist.
Yeah.
And uh, you know, it's just it's mind-boggling here.
Here, the Army psychiatrist authorities say killed 13 people who wounded 29 others at Fort Hood was a recent and frequent customer at a local Caleen, Texas strip club.
Said the employees of the club, Major Nidal Malik Hassan came into the Starz strip club not far from the base at least three times in the past month.
The club's general man.
Oh, and the guy was running around to his friends.
I'm gonna miss you.
I'm gonna miss you.
Gave away his clothes, he gave away his why did he do it?
Jennifer Jenner, who works at STARS using the stage name Paige, said that Hassan bought a lap dance from her two nights in a row.
She said that uh he paid fifty this of this a pious Muslim here, gang.
This is exactly what the 9-11 hijackers did before they got on the planes.
A couple of them went to Vegas, a couple of them went to strip clubs, they got it all in.
Hey, wanted to experience what the infidels experienced before they reverted to their own piety.
Uh another similarity that Mr. Hassan has with some of the 9-11 hijackers.
James in San Antonio, Texas, we go to the phones, we'll start with you.
It's great to have you and welcome.
Hi, James.
Uh hi, Rush.
Uh I wanted to comment on General Casey.
Uh well, first of all, you're you're doing a fantastic job without you.
I don't know where this country would be.
Uh but General Casey made a comment yesterday, or is it Saturday, that absolutely sickened me?
It showed that political correctness.
Uh I was in the Air Force from 66 through 70 out here in Oklahoma.
Uh now I'm in Texas.
Uh retired.
But General Casey's comment was absolutely sickening.
It showed that uh political correctness, profiling, and all that business has taken hold, and you just can't do it.
You can't speak out.
Imagine if a bunch of IRA guys had flown planes into the World Trade Center.
Would the Pope have said something to those fallen away Catholics about fighting the Protestants in Northern Ireland?
Oh, guys, you you can't fly planes into a building.
He damn sure would have said something.
Well, what did Casey say?
What did Casey say that you heard him say that it upset you?
Casey Casey said in effect that uh that the uh that we can't go overboard, like Obama said, we can't go overboard and prejudge these guys that this was lone.
He said in effect he was one lone wolf.
One guy by himself.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
A lone wolf that we knew everything about, apparently.
And the Army, quite frankly, somewhere, somewhere in the Army, either uh up in Washington, D.C. uh at the hospital up there, uh, or down here in Fort Hood, he got a performance evaluation that was poor.
He was not pulled aside by some officer, and I know something about that.
When you underperform, you're pulled aside and either told to get lost or or discharged.
Now he's an offer.
He would have had to redirect.
See, this is where political correctness is killing us because approved minorities cannot, uh approved minorities, approved victims, cannot be held accountable to the same standards.
These guys are afraid that doctors are saying we were afraid to file a formal complaint.
What would happen to us?
You know, we'd be called we we we'd be said to be discriminating.
Right.
And and and these people call this uh they call this uh religion in the military uh and elsewhere across the country a religion of peace.
Well, it's time for the peaceful Muslims who actually believe in America to speak out against this horror.
They're afraid too.
I think they're afraid those that you describe are afraid to do so as well.
They're afraid to do so, and we have a president who says we don't want to prejudge this.
Well, all I can say We got a press worse than that.
It is worse than that.
The nation, the world is waiting for a response, words of something from President Obama after this horrible event takes place.
Obama has a regularly scheduled event with the tribal conference leaders from the uh the Native American caucus or whatever, and they decided, well, we're gonna go on with this event.
And Obama starts out and he sings the praises of the people attending this this conference, a tribal leaders' conference, and he gives a shout out to a medal of honor winner who not only not there and had not won a medal of honor, and then after three or four minutes, then briefly mentions this incident.
And let's not jump to conclusions.
It's not just that he said let's not jump to conclusions.
He didn't even make it a priority.
He didn't even act like he was phased by it.
And you know, I uh folks, there are still people in this country who care deeply about it, and this event can scare the hell out of people, and they're looking for some kind of assurance from the pre.
Remember after 9-11?
After 9-11, Bush, the first thing they said about him was that he's reading books on goats to little kids in the Florida school, then he got on Air Force One as a coward, refused to go back to Washington.
And after Bush made his first set of remarks, Peter Jennings said, some presidents are just better at this than others.
Meaning, I wish we had Clinton to reassure the nation.
And now we have I mean, this what the president's response to this, not just his uh words, but the uh emphasis that he did not place upon it, striking.
Just striking.
Not going to Berlin, not being part of a celebration marking a total outbreak of freedom around the world.
Just amazing.
Now here's here's what General Casey, he's the Army Chief of Staff.
He said Sunday it's important for the country not to get caught up in speculation about Hassan's Muslim faith, and he has instructed his commanders to be on the lookout for anti-Muslim reaction to the killings at Fort Hood.
He says focusing on the Islamic roots of the suspected shooter could heighten the backlash against all Muslims in the military.
Casey says diversity in the military gives us strength.
And it left unchecked a killer.
By the way, Casey declined to answer questions about the investigation into the shooting, but said evidence to this point shows that Hassan acted alone.
He toured Fort Hood on Friday with Army Secretary John McHugh.
Casey was on uh this week on ABC and C and in State of the Union.
Sharon in Williamsburg, Pennsylvania.
Hi.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Sharon, are you there?
Testing one, two, three.
Hi, Sharon.
How are you?
Okay.
Is this Sharon in Greensburg?
Uh Karen.
Karen.
Okay.
Sorry, Karen.
How are you?
No problem.
Good.
I just want to know what kind of care this man rendered to our troops coming home home who may have had a post-traumatic stress disorder or any other problem.
Uh, it pre-traumatic stress because he hasn't been deployed.
It's a new symptom that's just been diagnosed over the weekend, pre-traumatic stress disorder.
What kind of care did he give to our troops?
He was a doctor.
Uh, as a psychiatrist.
Uh-huh.
I have no idea.
But we can't jump to conclusions about this, Karen.
You're you are you are you uh are you attempting to imply that this man might have attempted to brainwash our own military troops under his care?
I just want to know that they were given the best possible care that could be given to people who are giving up their uh livelihoods and possible lives for our country.
Well, we don't know because those sessions are private until of course the New York Times gets hold of them, in which case we'll uh we'll find out.
Yeah.
Uh, if it's damaging to the U.S. military.
If it's not damaging the military, we'll never know.
Yes.
That's how that works.
Thank you so much.
All right.
One thing we can say, though, uh, ladies and gentlemen, is that uh Nadal Malik Hassan is and did receive the finest health care available to anybody in the world.
It's very comforting to know.
Very and I you know again, we're still trying to find out uh whether or not waterboarding is being used.
I think I just saw a little headline that uh his family has insisted that interrogators not talk to him until his lawyer shows up.
He gets a lawyer in there.
So anyway, got to take a brief break here, folks.
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I did too.
We're back together now as things should be.
Here's another General George Casey quote meet the press.
Our diversity, not only in our army, but in our country, is a strength.
And as horrific as this tragedy was, if our diversity becomes a casualty, I think that's worse.
If diversity in the army becomes a casualty, this that's worse than the 13 dead and the 29 wounded.
General George Casey, Army Chief of Staff.
By the way, John Alad Mohammed, otherwise known as the DC Sniper, will be executed for his crimes tomorrow.
That is, unless the PC police get frightened about possible backlashes.
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