Starting in the spring of 2008, key officials from Walter Reed Army Medical Center and the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences held a series of meetings and conversations, in part about Maj. Nidal Hasan, the man accused of killing 13 people and wounding dozens of others last week during a shooting spree at Fort Hood. One of the questions they pondered: Was Hasan psychotic?Authorities have announced that Hasan will face 13 counts of premeditated murder, and I fully expect his lawyers will offer an insanity defense. So, how will they do that? Do they suggest that is exposure to radical islamist ideas drove him nuts? Wouldn't that more or less put the religion on trial?
"Put it this way," says one official familiar with the conversations that took place. "Everybody felt that if you were deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan, you would not want Nidal Hasan in your foxhole."
Or will they go with what I expect to happen - that he had some sort of psychosis and the radical islamist views weren't relevant to his illness. The last thing they want to risk is the possibility that their case will establish that Muslim ideology can make you crazy.
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All one has to do is read their book and see that he acted just like the book says, kill those that won't convert to their religion. Plain and Simple!
Whatever other cr*p they say about the guy, he violated an oath he took as a soldier to defend THIS country. He swore an oath to defend the United States of America and its Constitution. If he couldn't keep that oath, he (a soldier of Allah) should have resigned.
It seems pretty clear to me. And tickets to Pakistan are then easy to get if he wanted to fight on the other side. It was his call.
There's not a lot of honor in his version of life.
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