Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates speaks with police Sgt. Kimberly Munley at a hospital in Fort Hood, Texas, Nov. 10, 2009. Munley, a first responder to the shooting rampage at the base's processing station Nov. 5, 2009, fired the shots that brought down the shooter responsible for the tragedy. Gates is in the area to attend a memorial ceremony honoring the 13 service members who were killed during the shooting. (DoD photo by Cherie Cullen/Released)
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[the brain]" -1984 (film) |
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Isn't she amazing!?!?!
And so small, too.
I hope she has a full recovery!
Kol HaKavod!!!
Is anyone surprised that he who can't say "Yes, we can" without his teleprompter didn't visit any of the wounded yesterday? Of course, he would have had to drag along his media entourage and turned it into a publicity stunt, using the wounded as props. (Cf. his photo-op at Dover AFB last week.) Maybe he's still sore about being turned down at the military hospital in Germany last year when he was running for President of the World.
W and former First Lady Laura Bush visited the soldiers in hospitals on Tuesday with no fanfare or publicity and no media in tow.
Here is a first hand account of the slaughter at Ft. Hood, different from MSM story
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2383016/posts
mal: thanks very much for the firsthand account.
It confirms one thing that has been bothering me greatly. THE SHOOTER HAD AMPLE TIME TO RELOAD. One armed soldier in the middle of this US Army base -- just one -- could have made a tremendous difference. (And now we've heard from a soldier who desperately wishes he'd been armed, haven't we?)
Political correctness will be the death of us.
It's not just Chi-town gay fans of Hillary who note the contrast between the characters of the current and former Presidents; Caroline Glick misses Dubya.
With respect to all, including this heroine and her partner Mark Todd who was also involved in bringing down the murderer, and in fact may have fired the bullets that actually hit him, President Obama did visit the wounded:
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/06/obama-quietly-visits-wounded-troops/
Props to him for doing them a solid. It's a real change in his approach.
That was on Friday, after he'd caught flack for his off-key four minutes with the eyes of the world on him for a press conference hastily called right after the Ft. Hood terror massacre. At another moment, his shout-out at the conference of the tribal nations to the medicine man who he wrongly claimed had "won" the Congressional Medal of Honor -- it was he, himself who'd awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom a couple of months ago -- would have been just fine. He was there making a political appearance. But Mr. Teleprompter must have known the cameras were rolling.
Nappy gives him the benefit of the doubt and assumes it was heartfelt and not just a political stunt to gain credibility by emulating his predecessor and his opponent last year -- John McCain is at Walter Reed so often that he's on a first name basis with the nurses and staff. Let's see whether Obama makes a habit of quietly visiting military hospitals.
When he flew down to TX on Tuesday, he spent about a half-hour with the bereaved families before the ceremony. Did he go to any hospitals to visit the 30+ injured?
I respect former President Bush as well as Senator McCain and admire their service to the US.
There are many veterans in my own family. Not that it should be important but they're all Democrats.
I think it's inappropriate to imply that President Obama or other Democrats don't care about our troops or that we're insincere when we express concern for their welfare.
After all the troops are us - all of us - and we're all affected when something bad happens to them (including wars).
Similar charges have been leveled at Democrats in the past, however we also love and serve our nation.
"we also love and serve our nation."
The Constitution is not a cookbook, Democrats!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WudBfRa0ETw
"To Serve Man"
"Islam means Peace"
Sol used the pic for his post so it was about the wounded cop and her courage in the line of fire to do her duty.
It doesn't help trying to be fair and balanced in introducing her partner if officialdom doesn't recognize his bravery for the whole country to appreciate and nor it does it help trying to shore up hope&change's image by basically ignoring his demagoguery.