Thursday, November 5, 2009

Tragedy Atrocity at Ft. Hood*

Ed Driscoll has the story and updates.

May God have mercy on the souls of these people so senselessly butchered, and comfort their families.

Update: Ed Morrissey explores a key question: why was this guy still in the army?

* A more fitting post heading (H/T: Seraphic Secret).

7 comments:

  1. There are 86 members of the Arizona National Guard presently training at Fort Hood for a one year deployment to Afghanistan. All are safe.

    Just an update to the "Curious" file.
    These soldiers let this guy live yet, according to Lancet, they willy nilly slaughter hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis?

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  2. Yojimbo

    but all of them were musli......oh, wait a minute......

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  3. Where lies the problem?
    http://pao.hood.army.mil/leaders/bios/Atkinson.pdf
    ... he's a Dragoon.

    Cheers

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  4. A psychiatrist who went nuts... who woulda thunk that.

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  5. Paco they were about as "senselessly" murdered as a Catholic "senselessly" goes to Mass...

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  6. Richard: Even if the guy was a sleeper terrorist, the murders were senseless because the fanatical religion that may have prompted the deed is senseless (which is, of course, not the same thing as purposeless or lacking in motive).

    Maybe just plain old "evil" is a better word.

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  7. I used to send care packages to a platoon in Afghanistan made up of Army soldiers from Ft. Hood. I have to wonder if any of them were in that facility when this bastard went on his jihad, and I have no way of finding out.

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