A US soldier testified in court today that he recorded two cell phone videos of the Fort Hood massacre as it was happening, but his CO told him to delete the footage the same day.

That is outrageous. It sounds like the Army was in full CYA mode the same day the massacre occurred. The CO who gave that order should be investigated and charged with obstruction of justice. It’s inconceivable to order the destruction of such important evidence.

The Army still has not been forced to answer for the culture of political correctness that allowed this terrorist attack to occur.

The LA Times is reporting that several Army officers could face disciplinary action related to the Ft. Hood terror attack.

The Army believes Major Nidal Hassan was promoted up through the ranks when he clearly should not have been.

The review found that Hasan, an Army psychiatrist, repeatedly failed to meet basic officer standards for physical fitness, appearance and work ethic, but that superiors allowed his medical career to advance.

"Had those failings been properly adjudicated, he wouldn’t have progressed," and could have been forced out of the armed services, said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity because the review’s findings had not been made public.

Instead, the investigation found that for much of Hasan’s career, supervisors were blinded by his resume, believing they had found a rare medical officer: someone with a stellar undergraduate record, prior service in the infantry and intimate knowledge of the Islamic faith.

The officers responsible for his promotions could face disciplinary action and hold the ranks of colonel and below.

The Times article goes on to cite a lot of bureaucratic mistakes and the need for more stringent oversight of this or that.

What the article and more importantly the Army fails to address is the culture inside the military that allowed these mistakes to occur at all. There is no place in America where political correctness is more entrenched than in the military.

Officers need to feel comfortable that their careers will not be ruined if they report a fellow soldier believed to hold extremist views. Muslims are part of the “protected class” and no one wanted to be accused of racism or anti-Muslim bigotry for reporting Hasan.

I frequently rail against Islam on this site and I make no apologies for it. However, there is one American Muslim whom I have great respect for, and that is Dr. Zuhdi Jasser. I’ve followed Dr. Jasser for several years and he seems to be the only American Muslim who gets it. His family immigrated from Syria and the the military paid for his medical education just as they did for Dr. Nidal Hassan — The Fort Hood terrorist.

He believes as I do that American Muslims don’t do enough to combat radical Islam. They condemn attacks when they happen, but that’s pretty much it.

Dr. Jasser made a fantastic film about radical Islam called “The Third Jihad” which everyone should watch when they get a chance.

(hat tip Bare Naked Islam)

From Wired:

The Ft. Hood shootings were so gruesome and inhuman, even Osama Bin Laden’s former spiritual mentor is condemning them — calling the massacre that killed 13 “irrational” and “empty of thought,” according to a translation provided to Danger Room by the NEFA Foundation.

Salman Al-Awdah, a Saudi cleric who played an influential role in Bin Laden’s early radicalism, made the statement during an appearance on his “Life is a Word” show on MBC, a Saudi-owned news and entertainment satellite TV channel, later posting his remarks on his website, Islam Today.

“Incidents [such as the Ft. Hood shootings]  have bad consequences, and undoubtedly this man might have a psychological problem; he may be a psychiatrist but he [also] might have had psychological distress, as he was being commissioned to go to Iraq or Afghanistan, and he was capable of refusing to work whatever the consequences were.”

I guess he should have made it sexier by waiting until he was deployed and then strapping some C4 to his chest and walking into a chow hall.

Just because one radical jihadi condemns another radical jihadi doesn’t mean anything. They’re both crazy assholes that we need to kill.

NY Mayor Michael Bloomberg decided to host a summit at city hall with Muslim leaders to discuss Fort Hood.

Among those invited was unindicted co-conspirator of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, Siraj Wahhaj. Wahhaj is a radical Imam who runs the Masjid Al-Taqws mosque in Brooklyn. He’s said in the past that the CIA and FBI are the real terrorists.

Bloomberg will do anything and pander to anyone to get attention. Doesn’t he realize these radical Muslims aren’t interested in talking? Wahhaj would cut his rich American throat in the blink of an eye if the opportunity presented itself.

While Bloomberg’s actions are indeed outrageous, I think the bigger outrage is that Siraj Wahhaj is still allowed to run his stupid mosque in Brooklyn. That asshole should be in jail or living in some other country.

New questions are being raised about where all of Fort Hood terrorist Nidal Malik Hasan’s money has been going.

He earned more than $90,000 per year, but lived alone in a broken down apartment he rented for $300 a month. Investigators are combing through his financial records as we speak.

Better late than never — I guess.

A new poll from Rasmussen Reports shows 60% of Americans want the attack at Fort Hood investigated as a terrorist attack. Only 27% want it investigated as a civilian criminal act.

65% want Major Nidal Malik Hasan to get the death penalty.

76% believe the military should remove officers who attempt to contact terrorist organizations such as Al Qaeda:

Seventy-six percent (76%) believe the army should remove from duty all officers like Hasan who attempt to contact radical terrorist organizations such as al Qaeda. Only seven percent (7%) disagree. This general view was articulated by Senator Joseph Lieberman, who said, "If Hasan was showing signs, saying to people that he had become an Islamist extremist, the U.S. Army has to have a zero tolerance."

The fact that it’s even a debatable issue as whether a military officer should be removed for contacting Al Qaeda really speaks volumes about the sorry state of our country.

Political correctness is running wild in America and is creating a pre-9/11 mentality that will only cost more lives.

Hasan should have been dishonorably discharged years ago and possibly even prosecuted. It’s outrageous that a radical Muslim who spoke openly about his contempt for America would be allowed to continue serving in the Army.

It’s hard to get more corrupt or clueless than Chicago Mayor Richard Daley. His city has the toughest gun laws in the nation, while still managing to have the highest homicide rate.

Inner-city blacks are blowing each other way at record numbers in Daley’s Chicago with guns they’re not supposed to have.

Given this, it’s pretty amazing Mayor Daley would blame guns for the Fort Hood tragedy. Predictable, but still amazing.

Making guns the culprit (as absurd as that sounds) allows Daley and other radical leftists to absolve Islam and Muslims from any responsibility.

The left loves political correctness even when it kills them.

Nice going, Dick.

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