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6th November 2009, 12:53 AM
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Reps: 113,334,091,635,218,480 (power: 113,334,091,635,226) | | Originally Posted by Jere209  That is stunning news.
Can you imagine what his life will be like now???
Hopefully short and filled with pain.
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dir="ltr"> they told me if I voted for John McCain that I would get a President like Bush that would violate the airspace and sovereignty of an allied nation with a military force to assassinate a foreign national of another allied country and then their dead body would be dumped in the ocean. and they were right.
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6th November 2009, 04:34 AM
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Hopefully long. I hope they throw him in prison and throw away the key.
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6th November 2009, 05:35 AM
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Reps: 487,428,604,501,145,536 (power: 487,428,604,501,153) | | | Hang on. Yesterday on BBC News, they said they'd shot dead the gunman. Why on Earth wasn't he shot dead? They essentially let him shoot at everyone, and if he could ever so kindly put his weapon down when he'd finished, would he kindly let them apprehend him? Madness.
Anyway, this is despicable. As Obama said, bad enough overseas, but on US soil? Appalling.
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6th November 2009, 06:43 AM
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Reps: 73,601,877,211,726,352 (power: 73,601,877,211,735) | | Originally Posted by Supreme Hang on. Yesterday on BBC News, they said they'd shot dead the gunman. Why on Earth wasn't he shot dead? They essentially let him shoot at everyone, and if he could ever so kindly put his weapon down when he'd finished, would he kindly let them apprehend him? Madness.
Sounds like they shot him several times on everything I've heard, and he was just unfortunate to have survived.
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6th November 2009, 07:24 AM
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Reps: 155,773,840,176,349,856 (power: 0) | | | I know many Soldiers who have been to Ft. Hood, and in fact if not for the intervention of my base commander when I was in Ft. Lewis, I would be there right now. It's hard to believe something like this could happen, and I'm sorry for all the family members of the fallen soldiers. No one expects to die like that in garrison.
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6th November 2009, 08:33 AM
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PSychiatrist goes on shooting rampage?
A person most prepared to handle stress?
I think he was a semi-silent Islamic sympathist. He could have easily left the military any time he wanted. Resign his commision.
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6th November 2009, 08:53 AM
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Reps: 22,655,783,805,506,600 (power: 22,655,783,805,515) | | Originally Posted by Billnew 13 dead.
PSychiatrist goes on shooting rampage?
A person most prepared to handle stress?
I think he was a semi-silent Islamic sympathist.
Oh let the speculation roll. Guy who kills people is a Muslim, therefore he did it for Islam, in the same way that all Christians who kill people do it for Christianity.
Being a psychiatrist doesn't make you less prone to any form of mental defect, believe me. Let's wait until more details come out before we trip over ourselves rushing to blame the guy's actions on his religious convictions.
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6th November 2009, 09:40 AM
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PSychiatrist goes on shooting rampage?
A person most prepared to handle stress?
I think he was a semi-silent Islamic sympathist. He could have easily left the military any time he wanted. Resign his commision.
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6th November 2009, 09:46 AM
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I think what happened is the guy was upset that he would have to face off with his own nationality.. but that's jmo.
We really have to wait and see what happened..
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