OBAMA AND MEDIA ON FORT HOOD TRAGEDY: 'ANYTHING BUT TERRORISM'

Our nation has suffered a tragic occurrence at Fort Hood Army Base in Fort Hood, TX. Here is what we know. On Thursday morning, November 5^th, 2009, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, a Muslim originally from Virginia, but stationed at Fort Hood, woke up and proceeded sometime thereafter to give away his belongings. He called a few friends and said thanks and/or goodbyes. He got dressed, not in his military issued uniform, but in the customary Muslim garb. He carried with him two handguns. He then went to the Soldier Readiness Processing Center, the place where soldiers soon leaving for or returning from their tour go for medical processing, and opened fire.

Immediately after the shootings occurred, many in the media used the incident to push the agenda against the Iraq war by reporting that Hasan suffered from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. They continued to say that this shooting is a clear indication that our soldiers are not receiving the medical treatment that they need in order to deal with what they experience in combat.

There is, however, one simple problem with that theory. Major Nidal Malik Hasan was never deployed overseas and never once experienced combat firsthand. Now, there are some that might attempt to argue that he was stressed over his pending deployment to Afghanistan. However, they were not arguing for Pending Traumatic Stress Disorder or Future Traumatic Stress Disorder. The immediate argument was Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in which the keyword is POST or AFTER the fact. The Mayo Clinic definition of PTSD is “Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a type of anxiety disorder that's triggered by a traumatic event. You can develop post-traumatic stress disorder when you experience or witness an event that causes intense fear, helplessness or horror.” Having never been deployed, Hasan never experienced or witnessed combat in a time of war.

According to multiple witnesses, as Hasan opened fire on his fellow soldiers, he shouted 'ALLAH AKBAR' which is Arabic for “God is Good”. This is also the statement typically uttered by Islamic Jihadists as they perpetrate a terrorist attack.

Here is what we know about Hasan prior to the massacre of his fellow soldiers. He was a licensed psychiatrist whose entire medical education was funded by the US Army. As we all know, a benefit offered by the Armed Forces is funding for education in exchange for your service. One thing that many, Hasan obviously included, do not understand or accept is that you can’t pick and choose what that service will look like. As a member of the Armed Forces, sometimes that service may include being within a combat area.

As a resident at Walter Reed, Hasan was reprimanded for proselytizing his Muslim faith to co-workers and patients. Oh, and lest I forget, this from a man who checked “No Religion” when filling out his forms to join the Army. This despite the fact that his family says he was not a Muslim convert, but had been a Muslim his entire life.

There are blog posts submitted by Hasan that equated a Muslim suicide bomber who sacrifices his life for his faith to a soldier who falls on a grenade to save his fellow soldiers.

“There was a grenade thrown amongs (sic) a group of American soldiers. One of the soldiers, feeling that it was to late for everyone to flee jumped on the grave with the intention of saving his comrades. Indeed he saved them. He inentionally (sic) took his life (suicide) for a noble cause i.e. saving the lives of his soldier. To say that this soldier committed suicide is inappropriate. Its more appropriate to say he is a brave hero that sacrificed his life for a more noble cause. Scholars have paralled (sic) this to suicide bombers whose intention, by sacrificing their lives, is to help save Muslims by killing enemy soldiers. If one suicide bomber can kill 100 enemy soldiers because they were caught off guard that would be considered a strategic victory. Their intention is not to die because of some despair. The same can be said for the Kamikazees (sic) in Japan. They died (via crashing their planes into ships) to kill the enemies for the homeland. You can call them crazy i you want but their act was not one of suicide that is despised by Islam. So the scholars main point is that "IT SEEMS AS THOUGH YOUR INTENTION IS THE MAIN ISSUE" and Allah (SWT) knows best.”

I could continue with various other examples and stories from the life of Major Nidal Malik Hasan , but I’ll choose instead to fast forward to the comments by President Barack Obama in response to this terroristic massacre.

Later that evening, President Obama addressed the Tribal Nations Conference hosted by the Department of Interior's Bureau of Indian Affairs. Rather than go on a tangent and speak of the utter and complete inappropriateness of his lighthearted opening remarks, I’ll cut straight to his recommendation of how we as Americans should deal with this tragedy. According to our president, "We don't know all the answers yet and I would caution against jumping to conclusions until we have all the facts.”

By the time the president made this speech, the majority of what has been stated above was known. Speculation that this was not the act of a breakdown, but was rather an act of terrorism could be backed with multiple facts. His call for us to “not jump to conclusions until we have all the facts” in regards to the domestic terrorist Major Nidal Malik Hasan is even more ludicrous when you consider a statement that Obama himself made just a few short months ago.

President Obama, when asked about the incident in which Professor Gates, a personal friend and professor at Harvard University, was arrested at his own home responded that the Cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were in their own home. These words were uttered quickly, without much thought, and without Obama fully knowing the facts…any facts, other than the fact that his black friend had been arrested by a white police officer in Cambridge….. thereby exposing the real Obama that presents himself when not prepped.

Yet, now, knowing all that we do so far about Major Hasan, we shouldn’t jump to conclusions. The audacity of President Obama’s hypocrisy. Just when I think his hypocrisy can’t get any worse, he never ceases to surprise me.