Does it strike you as strange and/or irresponsible that a Palestinian soldier with a history of mental problems was given a gun and put in charge of "psychological readiness" for soldiers going to Iraq and Afghanistan at Fort Hood? (LINK)

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• We look like dam fools, just like with 911.

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  by Suny on November 7th, 2009

• What's this "WE" stuff?

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  by Moongrim on November 7th, 2009

• Maybe you have trouble reading warning signs. Maybe you think there's no such thing as a warning sign. But some of us are not surprised when a "Palestinian-American" (if that term is more to your liking) with a history of emotional and psychological problems is given a gun and he points and shoots it at US soldiers. Just what WOULD get you to say "wait a minute, maybe that's not such a good idea?" Anything?

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  by GeorgeGee left Answerbag (What's this?) on November 7th, 2009

• The dude was born in Virginia. George. Perhaps you've forgotten that he was an enlisted man in the Army and worked his way up through the ranks to Major.
  
  Seems to me that any nutjob with a gun shouldn't be allowed access to guns. But then the NRA would come down onto me like a ton of bricks for suggesting such.
  
  Perhaps the Army needs to reevalute who they hand guns out to?

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  by Moongrim on November 7th, 2009

• Here is a quote from an Associated Press article, stating that "Hasan listed his birthplace as Arlington, Va., but his nationality as Palestinian." Of course you don't believe the Associated Press, nor the New York Times, nor CNN, nor the Guardian, nor any other Western news source, do you? But here it is anyway.
  http://www.startribune.com/nation/69322567.html?page=2&c=y

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  by GeorgeGee left Answerbag (What's this?) on November 7th, 2009