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America's silent majority on Fort Hood
Here's what America's silent majority -- that same folks who overwhelming support a government health-insurance option -- says in response to the Fort Hood shootings:
The headline on the new Rasmussen poll is this: “60% Want Fort Hood Shooting Investigated as Terrorist Act.”
But the more interesting news, buried in the internals, is that a solid majority, or 57%, is very or somewhat concerned that the shooting will trigger a backlash against Muslims in the armed forces.
As usual, the voice of the silent majority gets drowned out in the mainstream media. More on the various atrocities of the MSM later tonight.
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I think, like the majority of Americans, PAEnglish is concerned about a backlash against Muslims in the military also. Why else would PAEnglish want to ban Muslims from the military except to protect them?— Talking point sleuth- If Muslims do not want to fight other Muslims, then they should be allowed to leave the military.— sleepy
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Welcome to the Bizarro world: Where the liberal PC crowd is the silent majority, and the mainstream media may just be talk radio and FoxNews.— jmc- How does this Will guy, nothing more than an third rate internet troll, get this forum? Discuss.— valentsgrif
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- Not all muslims are terrorists, but almost all terrorists are muslims. That is an uncomfortable fact.— catwalks
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I wanted to be a Republican, but I couldn't make the grade. I scored too low on the ignorance and bigotry portion of the Big Tent test.— Hamlet- There should be an "investigation" and the "investigation" should include the possibility that this indeed was a "terrorist act." I'm not sure what the disparity between "investigating *as a terrorist act*" and "investigating" is beyond the frenetic need of the marginalized minority to put the "terrorist" label on anything and everything they don't like (up next - we'll be investigating Brussels Sprouts as a "terrorist vegetable"). Assuming this tragedy was a "terrorist act" before any investigation is not what we do here in the land of the free and the brave. We have "due process" and such "due process" should be carried out. The military has clear jurisdiction in this case and should prosecute the investigation clearly and quickly.— E.Plebnista
- "valentsgrif, it's because it is a failing, bankrupt liberal paper that he writes for" - only in the diseased lunacy of the fringes of the marginalized minority would asserting that a paper run by a GOP functionary, funded largely by owners who are GOP contributors and featuring such "libruls" as Rick Santorum and John Yoo as regular contributors is a "liberal paper" be in any way thought of as accurate. What color is the sky on the planet you currently reside?— E.Plebnista
- Bill O'Reilly says we can't kill all the world's Muslims, so apparently we'll HAVE to investigate some of them.— Hamlet
- Pleb, if it's not Fair and Balanced [TM] it's liberal.— Hamlet
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TPS actualy I dont give a flying f**k for muslims I dont trust them , I dont like them and nothing they ever do is positive . cue the rasist mantra from the libs , I really dont care .— PAEnglish
It's veterans day, as a veteran - I think at least for one day we could stop these vicious attacks on one another - just reflect what we can do to help America. BTW - that's not spending on day blogging attacking one another.- Comment removed.
Will, you may want to check your software. This article does not appear if you go to blog home.— bird11- Comment removed.
- In U.S. law the term terrorism means "the term “terrorism” means premeditated, politically motivated violence perpetrated against noncombatant targets by subnational groups or clandestine agents;"...so clearly this should be investigated as an act of terrorism - what the other 40% are thinking in this survey really defies logic. As to the threat of backlash, it is obviously possible and people should be concerned. Come someone explain Will's logic that something that might "possibly" happen outweighs what actually "did" happen - especially when what happened resulted in the death of 13 service men and women and the wounding of a cou[ple dozen others???— bird11
- Maybe someone can explain to me how the Dems own the White House and Congress, yet can't get in line to get any of their core value stuff done? Is it, perhaps, that liberals have mis-calculated the reason they are in office today, and that the country is nowhere near as liberal as they had hoped? Obama has dropped under 50% approval rating (Rasmussen), more then 50% of the country disagrees with the direction of the country, according to Gallup, conservatives now outnumber liberals 48% to 44%, independents are favoring Republicans 52% to 30%. A couple of brain-cell challenged posters here like to refer to a "marginalized minority". Still feel that way? Or perhaps, independents and republicans were sick of what they saw in office (including Bush, but not for the reasons liberals quote) and decided it was time to flush them out. I would expect serious losses in 2010 and a big fight for the White House in 2012 (assuming we come up with a candidate better then Bob Dole). How embarrassing would it be if the Dems lost control of the Congress in 2010 and the White House in 2012 after all of their rhetoric...— IggleFan68
- Not all muslims are terrorists, but almost all terrorists are muslims. This is an uncomfortable fact.— catwalks
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- Cat -- not too long ago, your statement was completely untrue. There were a number of white-skinned, blue-eyed, fair haired people who liked to kidnap, indiscriminately bomb and maim people because they felt oppressed. They are known as the Irish. The plain fact is that if someone is not able to put their country in front of their religion, then they are not appropriate to be in a military organization. That's not discriminatory -- it's common sense.— IggleFan68
- "3,000 people died on 9/11 because Bush was too bust chopping wood in Texas." I think you're on to something...did anyone check to see if Bush was chopping wood on the day of the Ft. Hood massacre?— legatus
- "that same folks who overwhelming support a government health-insurance option" Now your reduced to making up numbers and false statements..come on Willy, I did not think you would ever go that low!!— camtheman
- Gibba Mang has no sense of history or wisdom. 9/11 was much more complex then that, and the Bush AND Clinton administrations have a great deal of responsibility for that awful day. And to correct your geography, President Bush was in Florida on 9/11, reading to school children. Blaming one person, who, by the way, piloted NONE of the airplanes that crashed that day, is asinine. What about the responsibility of the airports to make sure the airplanes were secure, what about the failure to recognize that we were at war essentially from the time of the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993, what about the failure to kill Bin Laden when he was in our sights, what about the failure of our domestic and foreign intelligence agencies to act on intelligence that something indeed was being plotted? Read the 9/11 commission report, you might learn something and actually be able to speak/comment intelligently (http://www.9-11commission.gov/report/911Report.pdf).— IggleFan68
- --- Not all muslims are terrorists, but almost all terrorists are muslims. {{{--- Wow, I never realized that the Tamil Tigers, IRA, ETA, FARC, Timothy Mcveigh etc etc., are all Muslims. You learn something new every day.— Talking point sleuth
- IggleFan68 - can I respectfully tell you that you are wasting your time. Gibba Mang is a one trick pony who says the same thing everyday with no facts to back it up. Now as to what you were saying, I think 9/11 was the result of our failure to believe terrorism would ever hit U.S. soil. We needed to take more than token action after WTC I, Khobar, the Embassy bombings, and the Cole but we didn't.— bird11
- ---}}} TPS actualy I dont give a flying f**k for muslims I dont trust them , I dont like them and nothing they ever do is positive . cue the rasist mantra from the libs , I really dont care . {{{--- Gee, PAEnlish, you had me fooled. And there I thought the reason you want them banned from the military was because you love your fellow man, and wanted to protect Muslims from undeserved harm. Silly me. How could I have gotten you so wrong?— Talking point sleuth
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- TPS gee I really dont know , BTw we I mean the British were to friggin soft on the Irish as well , we played patsy with them for decades instead of stamping on them look where that got us , to fight terrorists you must you use more terror make them fear us and our retribution only then will the attacks stop .— PAEnglish
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- "Blaming one person, who, by the way, piloted NONE of the airplanes that crashed that day, is asinine." YOU already blamed Clinton and he wasn't even president then (although I do give you credit for naming Bush). Clinton was hounded by R's for going after Bin Laden when he WAS president, saying that he was trying to take the country's attention away from the biggest issue of the day: what he did with a Jewish girl in the office once occupied by Saints Ronald and Richard. Richard Clark tried to get Bush to see that Bin Laden was a grave threat, but his PNAC buddies were too busy planning the invasion of Iraq to bother with real threats to American national security. Who needs the history lesson here?— Hamlet
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- Hamlet well before 9/11 the Clinton administration had bin Laden literally in the crosshairs at Tarnak Farms but did not act. Actually they were not even prepared to act. The were still treating the terrorist threat as a law enforcement problem despite bin Laden declaring war on the U.S. The Clinton administration wanted bin Laden captured not killed and that was how the CIA operated significantly lowering the chances of success. All of this is fact and was the wrong way to handle the situation. (You want to see really screwed up priorities do a little research on the rules of engagement for the sailors on the U.S.S. Cole). It also in no way excuses the Bush administration from doing the right thing when they took office which would have been to track and kill bin Laden - he had killed enough Americans already. IMHO most Americans want to be safe but aren't prepared to do what is neccessary in the current age to insure that safety. I somehow doubt you and others would have been behind Bush sending troops into Afghanistan in the spring of 2001. It took the tragic events of 9/11 to wake people up and support such an effort. A wake up I free is short lived as evidenced by our current lack of resolve in Afghanistan, the failure to realize that Hussein was a real threat to the U.S. homeland, and worse what I see as a move by the current administration to go back to treating terrorism as a criminal justice problem as evidenced by the react to Fort Hood - I pray I am wrong on that last one.— bird11
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- Ya know, Bird, I'd like to know what the h-e double hockey sticks the Cole was doing in a harbor in Yemen in the first place! I know a little about the US Navy and refueling warships in hostile ports is not (or was not) USN policy. If there are no friendly ports around warships do something called "unrep" (underway replenishment) Again: who ordered the Cole to Yemen (and why)?— Hamlet
- --}}} Do we still have to pretend to like muslims and is it okay to watch them carefully at airports? {{{--- When were you pretending to like Muslims, Xi? I guess I must have missed that.— Talking point sleuth
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- Xi, you just might be able to get a job at the New York Post. A former editor there (Guzman – yeah, she’s suing them) claims they were considering running a cartoon that depicted Jews as sewer rats. You could practice every form of anti-Semitism there (Arabs AND Jews) and be with your brethren (the wonderful people at News Corp)— Hamlet
- I distrust Muslims in the city (except for one wonderful woman) and elsewhere. They see us as "blue eyed devils" and they hate us. I am getting to hate them also.— CountryRose
- "Your comments are hurtful and insensitive" Yeah, mine were too. I suppose you have no problem with Christian Arabs. I apologize.— Hamlet
- hwo does that kool-aid taste, bryane?— camtheman
- yes, Xi, you need to carefully watch them at airports...especially when they check your ID and carry-on bags. How screwed up is that?— AngryWhiteMale
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- Yeah, imagine that, bryanc. Obama jumping to conclusions - having the audacity that it is stupid to arrest someone for breaking into their own house. LOL!— Talking point sleuth
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