Lieberman: Committee Investigation of Fort Hood To Go Forward (Looking for "Muslim Extremism")

[KittyWampus]

Source: Washington Post

Lieberman: Committee investigation of Fort Hood to go forward
By John Amick

The Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs will seek to move forward on an investigation surrounding the mass shooting Thursday at Fort Hood Army base in Texas, Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (I-Conn.), the committee's chairman, said today.

The chairman said the scope of the probe would address the motives of the alleged shooter Army Maj. Nidal M. Hasan and whether signs of "Islamic extremism" were apparent, but missed or ignored.

"It's premature to reach conclusions about what motivated Hasan," Lieberman said on "Fox News Sunday" this morning. "But it's clear that he was, one, under personal stress and, two, if the reports that we're receiving of various statements he made, acts he took, are valid, he had turned to Islamist extremism."

Lieberman said if the shootings were fueled by such viewpoints it was the worst act of terrorism in America since the attacks of September 11, 2001.

"Therefore, if that is true, the murder of these 13 people was a terrorist act and, in fact, it was the most destructive terrorist act to be committed on American soil since 9/11."

The committee's investigation would work in collusion with any federal investigation by the Army or FBI, Lieberman said.

Read more: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/capitol-briefing/2009/...

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It'd be nice if same committee investigated Christian extremism in the leadership of the Air Force.

[MNDemNY]

1. That piece of shit needs top have his chairmanship yanked, NOW!!

Boot this ass-hat out of the caucus. He is an asshole.

[pattmarty]

4. totally agree. He'll use this to "grandstand" for his own aggrandizement...............

.......and it will only cause the Dems grief down the road. He'll go on Fox and bitch, but so fucking what.

[tekisui]

2. Joe McCarthy Lieberman.

[chelsea0011]

3. Fine then. And at the same time let's haul Randell Terry and all his

anti-choice pack in for an investigation. What? Fundie Christians are on a different plane?

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[meegbear]

6. OK ... don't filibuster and you can have your panel

[MNDemNY]

11. NO, fuck him raw! he needs to be booted from the caucus.

See what the republofucks will do for him.

[Hubert Flottz]

15. RE: "NO, fuck him raw!"

With a dull chain saw!

[Hubert Flottz]

7. Joe needs another Pearl Harbor

Joe the demoCON wants to keep the homeland up in arms. The Generals don't think it's a case of "Muslim Extremism" but Joe knows more about the military than the Generals do. He knows more about health care than the doctors know too. Joe don't need Viagra because he still has a hard-on because nobody would elect him dictator. Joe is a George Bush clone.

Edit...I need a barf bag the second I see that wormy little turn coat parasite on my TV screen.

[Mari333]

8. anyone checking on the murder of the census worker with the word FED written on his chest?

anyone checking to see if it was a christian terrorist behind it?? no? its a suicide??? you say???

anyone? anyone??

I didnt think so.

[MNDemNY]

9. There is NOTHING out there on this.

[Mari333]

12. what a cover up!

they sure know how to protect their home grown terrorists dont they.

[MNDemNY]

13. Something is not right.

[Vinnie From Indy]

10. Lieberman will use this event to demonize Muslims

Lieberman is the Israeli extremist right wing's representative in the US Senate. He will use his chairmanship to further the fear and ignorance of Muslims and he will bang the drums of war in regard to the US attacking Iran in the service of Israel.

[Hubert Flottz]

14. Anyone who can't see through Joe LIEberman has their head

so far up their ass that they can check their own teeth for cavities.

Karl Rove bought Joe a couple of years ago.

[MidwestTransplant]

16. Hard to run it it from the back bench Senator Aetna.

[d_r]

17. April 16, 2007 Va. Tech

"Lieberman said if the shootings were fueled by such viewpoints it was the worst act of terrorism in America since the attacks of September 11, 2001."

This statement can not be true. If this was a terrorist act, then Va. Tech was a terrorist act. Good lord, this kind of mis-use of language, to call it "terrorism" based on the religious views of the murderer, is horrific dangerous pandering.

[montanto]

18. Yay! When was the last time we had a good, old-fasioned

witch hunt?

[AzNick]

19. And so the witch hunt started...

I thought we were done with that.

[Paper Roses]

20. Grandstanding. Go home Joe and stay there. n/t

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[2Design]

22. Nasty man - can you imagine if he had been VP - God knows best sometimes n/t

[MessiahRp]

23. Just think if he used his committee positions to investigate Hurricane Katrina with the same vigor..

Oh wait, then the fucktard would be doing his job instead of scoring lowest common denominator political points.

Rp

[ellie]

24. Why is this asshole

still in charge of a committee? He is such a goddamn dummy. I hope the Democrats wise up and throw this turd out.

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[Wizard777]

26. This is an absolute waste of time and money! What will this result in?

Laws concerning the establishment and free exercise of the Islamic faith in America.

[mallard]

34. That would seem to be the likely outcome

Glad to find someone else making the 'point'. Thank you.

[maddogesq]

27. The Sen. from CT NEEDS AN ENEMA!!!!! NT

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[MBS]

28. perfect response

"It'd be nice if same committee investigated Christian extremism in the leadership of the Air Force"
Bingo.

Echoing other posters, it also would be nice to have Lieberman stripped of his chairmanship pronto!
He just keeps getting worse and worse.

[bertman]

29. I agree that this shooting should be investigated. But I also agree with the posters who

have stated that we need to investigate:

1. the religious coercion by Christians that is going on in our military, and especially at the Air Force Academy;
2. the militia groups who are training thousands of Americans for insurrection;
3. the extreme anti-choice groups who are targeting doctors and workers who provide health services and abortions for women;
4. the slaying of the census worker in Kentucky;
5. the role of the owners of the WTC and Building Seven who profited handsomely on their insurance coverage of those building when they were destroyed;

for starters.

[classysassy]

30. Hello Joe

are you going to try to get Jonathan Pollard returned to america?,didn't think so.

[martymar64]

31. Lieberman just wants to kill muslims, he gets off on it

If he gets his ways we'll be seeing death camps for muslims and there are a few here on DU that would volunteer to do the gassing.

[Jim Sagle]

32. This thread ain't nuthin' but shit.

[The Stranger]

33. Lieberman is just a bigoted, hateful racist.

But he flies under the radar because he couches his hate in fancy terms.