Article: "Lieberman Suggests Army Shooter Was 'Home-Grown' Terrorist"

The link: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125769764441836773.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLETopStories

" A senior U.S. senator on Sunday said the shootings at Fort Hood could have been a terrorist attack, and that he would launch a congressional investigation into whether the U.S. military could have prevented it.

" Sen. Joe Lieberman, an independent from Connecticut who heads the Senate's Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, said initial evidence suggested that the alleged shooter, Army Major Nidal Hasan, was a "self-radicalized, home-grown terrorist" who had turned to Islamic extremism while under personal stress. "

"Suggested?" If you've read my past postings about this, you'll know it wasn't "suggested" it's been PROVEN.

I'm frankly shocked that Sen. Lieberman had the balls to even suggest this. My respect for the man (and I had a great deal of respect before this because he dared to vote his conscience) just tripled. Sadly, I know what his investigation will turn into. It'll be blind-sided by the political correctness that's devoured the Pentagon and Wa$hington and will go nowhere. It'll be a dog-and-pony show ... at best.

" The Army's top officer, Gen. George Casey, wouldn't rule out that the shooting was an act of terrorism, but cautioned against speculation at this point. "We all want to know what happened and what motivated the suspect, but we need to … let the investigation take its course," he told ABC News's "This Week." "

General Casey said we need to let the investigation run its course. I understand, respect, and acknowledge that. It makes sense. But let's not put on the blinders of political correctness ... and that's already beginning!!

" General George Casey Jr., the Army chief of staff, said on Sunday that he was concerned that speculation about the religious beliefs of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, accused of killing 12 fellow soldiers and one civilian and wounding dozens of others in a shooting rampage at Fort Hood, could “cause a backlash against some of our Muslim soldiers.”

" “I’ve asked our Army leaders to be on the lookout for that,” General Casey said in an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union. “It would be a shame — as great a tragedy as this was — it would be a shame if our diversity became a casualty as well.” " (*) (Link is the New York Times' and is left intact.)

Gotta love the blinders of political correctness, ne? Our diversity is going to suffer if we correctly label him a home-grown terrorist!!

" The major, a 39-year-old psychiatrist, is the American-born son of Palestinian immigrants. He vocally opposed the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and seems to have moved toward more extreme religious beliefs in recent years, according to the investigators. Investigators have tentatively concluded that he acted alone and was not part of a terrorist plot. " (Link is the New York Times' and has been left intact.)

Let's see ... he studied at the same radicalized Mosque as two of the 9/11 hijackers at the same time they were there! You're seriously going to tell me that there is absolutely no connection?!? Come on.

They've " ... tentatively concluded that he acted alone ... " In other words, yet another "Lone wolf." Remember me writing about that as well?

I'm not saying he was part of a greater terrorist plot, I'm saying that the evidence suggests that he could have been. For anybody to rule that out at this part of the investigation is, in my opinion, just as bad as pulling the trigger and killing those innocent people themselves. And for them to blind themselves at this part of the investigation is wrong.

WRONG.

Gotta love political correctness.

(*) - http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/09/us/politics/09casey.html?_r=1