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Imagine if, in 1942, the son of German immigrants from the Sudetenland had yelled "Heil Hitler!" and then gunned down several dozen of his fellow soldiers on an American military base. Most reporters probably would not have expressed bewilderment as to the perpetrator's motive. They'd have simply connected the dots and told the public what happened: An army officer appears to have turned traitor, subscribing to the Nazi ideology and choosing to kill for the Nazi cause.
But that was then, this is now. After the attack at Fort Hood,...
Media Mush
War Horror? It's not like he was going to defuse bombs in his deploymnet. He's a psychiatrist. He was going to be deployed to the rear area of the biggest base in Iraq
And BTW, there have been exactly three deaths due to hostile fire in Iraq in the past 2 months. No wonder the guy snapped!