Comments on: Update V: Viva VA’s Jihadi-Friendly Hospitals (The Stellar Doc.) https://barelyablog.com/viva-vas-jihadi-friendly-hospital/ by ilana mercer Wed, 02 Apr 2025 19:29:09 +0000 hourly 1 By: M. B. Moon https://barelyablog.com/viva-vas-jihadi-friendly-hospital/comment-page-1/#comment-8091 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:59:34 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=16859#comment-8091 “war on terror” MeMySelfI

It should more appropriately be called “the war against Muslims who object violently to US troops on Muslim soil.”

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By: Jim https://barelyablog.com/viva-vas-jihadi-friendly-hospital/comment-page-1/#comment-8074 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:33:17 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=16859#comment-8074 Ilana, this story is filled with paradox. A man was just arrested and his house searched when the FBI caught him telling demonstrators where the police were during the G20 summit. He was on Twitter… And yet they knew about Hasan sending emails to an Al Queda operative and never questioned him.

Meanwhile, we suspend a boy with a Boy scout knife at school because of the zero tolerance laws on knives at school.

When the young killer went on a rampage at Va Tech, I remember thinking he would never think of doing so on a military controlled school; they’d shoot him as soon as he took out his gun. It turns out the military base is more PC than the population.

Are we all so silly and stupid? The lack of discernment expected of us would insult an 9 year old.

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By: MeMyselfI https://barelyablog.com/viva-vas-jihadi-friendly-hospital/comment-page-1/#comment-8068 Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:19:07 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=16859#comment-8068 Say you are a higher-up in the military.

You know your CIC isn’t sympathetic to the war on terror.

You notice a Muslim that’s gone off the deep edge. He might flip out, might go postal.

Do you stop him?

If you do stop him, especially *before* he actually does anything, then it’s the end of your career.

If you don’t stop him, and he goes postal, what have you lost? The public is reminded of the realities of the world we live in. Your CIC is (hopefully, maybe) chastised – at least behind the scenes maybe the war on terror gets a little more attention. As a military leader this would be a preferable outcome.

Such is the harvest of political correctness. We have sown the wind… we reap the whirlwind.

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By: Myron Pauli https://barelyablog.com/viva-vas-jihadi-friendly-hospital/comment-page-1/#comment-8065 Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:11:08 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=16859#comment-8065 Today is the birthday of the Marine Corps. One of the Marines who worked with testing our electro-optical equipment in Iraq was the late SSgt. Travis Twiggs, who served several tours in Iraq and came back with severe PTSD:

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/09/…/080929fa_fact_finnegan

Excerpt: “…he saw several doctors, “and it seemed that each one had a different medicine. I often wondered if they ever talked with each other.” At one point, he wrote, he was taking twelve different medications a day—Kellee recalls the number reaching nineteen, and says that the drugs turned her husband into “a zombie”—“and I was experiencing visual and audible hallucinations that I firmly believe were a direct result of being overmedicated. ”

Ssgt. Twiggs even wrote an article in the Marine Corps Gazette urging Marines to get treated for PTSD and advocating better treatment. Sadly, our “military medicine”, run by the likes of
Major Doctor Hasan, just pumped him up on drugs. He eventually went with his brother on a carjacking “suicide-by-cop” episode in Arizona. Naturally, he does not count as one of the “casualties” of the War in Iraq although it killed him just the same. America misuses and abuses its own loyal “troops”.

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By: Roger Chaillet https://barelyablog.com/viva-vas-jihadi-friendly-hospital/comment-page-1/#comment-8063 Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:22:43 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=16859#comment-8063 Joe Lieberman has no credibility on this matter. I remember him together with John McCain whoring themselves to the Mexican elites. These two warmongering buffoons were looking for more cannon fodder for their imperial adventures in the Middle East. http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2008/07/03/jeb_bush_joins_mccain_on_tour.html I’m surprised that Jeb
Bush didn’t bring the whole leadership roster from La Raza with him as well.

Anyone else remember this case of yet another unassimilated soldier bringing his cultural baggage with him to the US? http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,325188,00.html

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By: Robert Glisson https://barelyablog.com/viva-vas-jihadi-friendly-hospital/comment-page-1/#comment-8062 Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:14:12 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=16859#comment-8062 HAYM- The only answer to bad policy is more bad policy, anything else is “McCarthyism.”

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By: Haym https://barelyablog.com/viva-vas-jihadi-friendly-hospital/comment-page-1/#comment-8061 Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:30:57 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=16859#comment-8061 Yes, Lt. Col. Ralph Peters says is succinctly: “Give me a break!” Any other denomination of person would have been out of the Army so fast that it would have made The Flash jealous.

And the Pres. instructs us not to rush to judgment. Who does he think he is talking to? Third Graders?? The facts are out there to see – for all not blinded by the PC movement.

PC kills – it has killed free thought and expression, it has stifled the free market of ideas (allowing inferior views to die out), and now the tolerance of PC has led to the death of people.

Maybe this will be the final nail in the coffin of the PC movement in this country. But a heavy price has been paid!

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By: Bob Harrison https://barelyablog.com/viva-vas-jihadi-friendly-hospital/comment-page-1/#comment-8060 Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:26:41 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=16859#comment-8060 Senator Lieberman is actually calling for an investigation into the possible “oversights” of Hasan’s warning signs. “In the U.S. Army, this is not a matter of constitutional freedom of speech… If Hasan was showing signs, saying to people that he had become an Islamist extremist, the U.S. Army has to have zero tolerance. He should have been gone.” I’m glad he pointed out the obvious regarding free speech in the military, let us hope he follows through with an investigation. The usual suspects will fight him with cries of “witch hunt” and “McCarthyism.” Would it be asking to much of other senators to back him on this one?
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125769764441836773.html?mod=rss_Today

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By: Stephen Sacks https://barelyablog.com/viva-vas-jihadi-friendly-hospital/comment-page-1/#comment-8059 Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:16:49 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=16859#comment-8059 It certainly is a little jarring to all of us realize that the fairly daft codified US Military policy of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell extended to terrorists as well …

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