i thought that was an execution based on moral grounds that tiller was helping women secure a brutally homocidal and roundly discredited late term abortion? it had nothing to do with any political movement nor was mr roeder a leader of any movement. tiller, like jack kevorkian, was a homocidal maniac intent on murdering innocent, indefensible children who were viable in their mothers’ womb

Officials: U.S. Aware of Hasan Efforts to Contact al Qaeda
Army Major in Fort Hood Massacre Used ‘Electronic Means’ to Connect with Terrorists
By RICHARD ESPOSITO, MATTHEW COLE and BRIAN ROSS

Nov. 9, 2009 —

U.S. intelligence agencies were aware months ago that Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan was attempting to make contact with people associated with al Qaeda, two American officials briefed on classified material in the case told ABC News.

It is not known whether the intelligence agencies informed the Army that one of its officers was seeking to connect with suspected al Qaeda figures, the officials said.

Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-MI) said the CIA had, so far, refused to brief the intelligence committees on what, if any, knowledge they had about Hasan’s efforts.

CIA director Leon Panetta and the Director of National Intelligence, Dennis Blair, have been asked by Congress “to preserve” all documents and intelligence files that relate to Hasan, according to the lawmaker.

Hoekstra said he is “absolutely furious” that the house intel committee has been refused an intelligence briefing by the DNI or CIA on Hasan’s attempt to reach out to al Qaeda, as first reported by ABC News.

She drops the boom on a smug douche ready to lecture her about Iraq and PTSD.

The entire episode of wingnut hypocrisy is the case of the Fort Hood shootings is, perhaps, most amusingly and sadly illustrated by this quick exchange from last night’s Larry King Live on CNN between former POW Shoshana Johnson (captured along with Jessica Lynch) and wingnut attorney and JAG officer Tom Kenniff…

the US prevailed because our free market system was vastly more efficient than their command system which gave us the wherewithal to spend on more efficient weapon systems and satisfy the desires of our people for material comfort

That’s exactly my point.

Communism wasn’t defeated by economic studies and econometric models that attempted to prove its inherent inefficiencies (though those existed).

Communism was defeated when the U.S. beat the USSR in competition. Nobody advocates Communism anymore because the USSR is dead.

The same holds true for the War on Terror. We can go hunting through the Quran and Islamic philosophy to learn about jihad and Dar al-Harb and the philosophical differences between Sunni and Shiite. And it’s all useless.

The reason we’re not winning the War on Terror is our economic dependence on the Muslim oil states of the Middle East. If the U.S. had been economically DEPENDENT on the USSR for raw materials, I doubt we would ever have won the Cold War.

The West MUST find alternative sources of energy outside the Middle East oil fields. This would enable us to drive down the world price of oil (once we stop using so much of it), which would have the effect of greatly reducing the power of the Muslim oil bloc.

Saudi Arabia, our so-called “friend and ally,” is the source of a lot of the virulent radical propaganda against the West. We have looked the other way because of their strategic location and willingness to sell us oil. That can only stop when the West stops needing so much of their oil.

This is all the fault of the right-to-lifers.

We should deport them. ALL of them.

“However, isn’t it interesting that they never launched a full scale war against the West, since the time of the Moors?”

…….You might want to check out the siege of Vienna which happened in the mid 17th century…….and the Austrian Empire was engaged in major wars against the Ottoman empire until the early 18th Century

But consider the Saudis; the Wahabbist sect are even more bitterly intolerant of Christianity than the Taliban; But being intolerant towards Christianity doesn’t prevent them from having friendly diplomatic relations, and a mutually beneficial alliance.

Politics is war by other means, as the saying goes; I believe we can get better results by withdrawing military forces, and focusing on politicially alienating AQ, than by blowing up one house at a time.