Political Quotes

“This is a quote that, obviously, he and those helping him had prepared to give in response to 14 people being killed. We know one was an unborn child and that one of the people was a pregnant woman--a female soldier. So here is the quote that they had prepared after 13 of his soldiers lay either dying or dead at Fort Hood: ``I'm concerned that this increased speculation could cause a backlash against some of our Muslim soldiers . . . Our diversity, not only in our Army but in our country, is a strength; and as horrific as this tragedy was, if our diversity becomes a casualty, I think that's worse.'' {time} 1940 This is a general who is charged with leading soldiers and directing soldiers in war and in battle with an avowed enemy. Well, we have an enemy who has sworn to be at war with us. And one of those enemies was Major Hasan at Fort Hood, who went off on a shooting spree. Now unfortunately, our leaders did not bother to monitor the security of our own soldiers, such that when Major Hasan made actual pronouncements in advance that he could not be deployed and be a Muslim because, in his interpretation of the Koran--thankfully it's not all of our Muslim soldiers in the U.S. military that have this interpretation--but his interpretation was that he could not be deployed because that might require him to kill Muslims in a foreign country without cause.…”