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Thursday, November 05, 2009
Obama laments 'horrific outburst of violence'
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President Barack Obama on Thursday called a mass shooting at a Texas Army base "a horrific outburst of violence."

"We will make sure that we get answers to every single question about this horrible incident," the commander in chief said. "We are going to stay on this."

He said it's a tragedy to lose a soldier overseas and even more horrifying when they come under fire at an Army base on American soil.

The Army says 12 people were killed and more than 30 wounded at the Army base at Fort Hood, Texas.

Obama also said his thoughts and prayers are with the wounded and families of the fallen.

Obama spoke late Thursday afternoon with Lt. Gen. Bob Cone, the commanding officer at Fort Hood, to express condolences and to offer any help Cone needs, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said.

Obama was getting regular Oval Office updates on the shooting from his staff, led by his homeland security adviser, John Brennan.
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Reply # 1
Date: Nov 5, 2009 - 7:18 PM EST
The Shooter was Muslim

Watch that: Messiah B. Hussein Obama will never mention that this act of terror was committed by a MUSLIM... an impostor named MALIK NADAL HASAN, whose only goal in joining the U.S. military was to destroy our nation (and he had two terrorist accomplices, probably also Muslims).

And watch the mainstream media remaining silent on that fact...

And also watch B. Hussein Obama flying to some third-world Muslim sh*t-hole with another "We Love You and Want to Help You" peace speech...

But now, we need an "Ask and Tell" policy in the military to exclude islamists.

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Reply # 2
Date: Nov 5, 2009 - 6:42 PM EST
Get em Obie
I hope we can put politics away and figure out what went wrong here.

First thing, why aren't the military allowed to be armed? Turns out they had to call local police to save them, inconceivable.
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