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.

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.

This is funny:

(hat tip johnny$)

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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(hat tip Michelle Malkin)

No truer words have ever been spoken…

(hat tip Conurls)

From the Houston Chronicle:

Former President George W. Bush and his wife, Laura, have visited wounded soldiers and their families after the mass shooting at Fort Hood.

The Bushes made their private visit to Fort Hood’s Darnall Army Medical Center on Friday night. Bush spokesman David Sherzer said in an e-mail that the couple thanked Fort Hood’s military leaders and hospital staff for the "amazing care they are providing."

(hat tip Fox Nation)

From the AP:

President Barack Obama said Friday the entire nation is grieving for those slain at Fort Hood, and he urged people not to jump to conclusions while law enforcement officers investigate the shootings.

Obama met Friday morning with FBI Director Robert Mueller and other federal leaders to get an update on what they’ve learned. Thirteen people were killed and 30 others injured in the shooting rampage at the Texas Army post on Thursday. The suspected shooter is an Army psychiatrist; his motive remains unclear.

"We don’t know all the answers yet. And I would caution against jumping to conclusions until we have all the facts," Obama said in a Rose Garden statement otherwise devoted to the economy.

"What we do know is that there are families, friends and an entire nation grieving right now for the valiant men and women who came under attack yesterday," the president said.

In other words, don’t jump to the conclusion that Hasan was a radical Muslim. We don’t want to get hasty and start blaming Islam! Sorry Barry, we know his religion was the cause — too late.

Get ready for the ultimate whitewash of this entire affair by the mainstream media and The White House.

Every conceivable reason will be given for why this traitor did what he did except the actual one — his religion.

It’s not politically correct to blame Islam for anything in America. The television and print media will go out of their way to avoid mentioning that Hasan is a Muslim. A Muslim who thought other Muslims should fight back against the U.S. military in Iraq and Afghanistan. A Muslim who made internet posts sympathetic to suicide bombers. A Muslim who yelled “Allahu Akbar” before gunning down 12 colleagues at Fort Hood.

With the exception of Fox News, the media is a disgrace.

-Chris Jones

CNN has this exclusive footage of radical Muslim soldier Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan just hours before he went on a shooting rampage. He’s wearing traditional Islamic dress complete with skull cap.

(hat tip Hot Air)