Lieutenant General Robert Cone Hours After Fort Hood Attack: “A Terrible Tragedy, Stunning,” Motive Unclear, Evidence Does Not Support Act of Terrorism
What is up with Lieutenant General Robert Cone?
He initially gave everybody wrong information:
“The shooter was killed. He was a soldier. We since then have apprehended two additional soldiers who are suspects, and I would go into the point that there were eyewitness accounts that there may have been more than one shooter.”
On the day of the shooting, ABC news reported:
Cone called the attack “a terrible tragedy, stunning.” He said the community was “absolutely devastated.”
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Cone said the motive for the attack, which took place just after 1:30 p.m. CT, is unclear. While he said he could not rule out the incident as an act of terrorism, evidence does not support that theory.
Cone’s statement that the evidence does not support terrorism is patently false. It was patently false the moment that the gunman’s name was known.
This is not a “terrible tragedy.” This is war.
“As horrible as this was, I think it could have been much worse,” Cone said.
This man has a perspective on things that I would not expect to come from a Lieutenant-General in the US military: A tragedy, and it’s very sad, but come, come, now, it could have been much worse.
On Hero Kimberly Munley, Cone had this to say:
Lt. Gen. Robert W. Cone, the post commander, praised Sergeant Munley on Friday for reacting so swiftly and without hesitation. “It was an amazing and an aggressive performance by this police officer,” General Cone told The Associated Press.
Aggression is unprovoked. See Merriam Webster. Munley’s performance was not aggressive, Munley’s performance was defensive. Hasan’s performance was aggressive, Hasan was the aggressor. He was the one shooting people. Munley shooting on Hasan was not an unprovoked attack. Not only was her shooting of Hasan provoked, it was defensive, and it was her duty.
So when Cone mischaracterizes Munley’s shooting of the gunman as “aggressive,” I ask myself why he does so.
It was and is terrorism, at the hands of an islamist pig.
This will not be last of these types of attacks. I pray
that I am wrong but when our Gov’t is deaf, dumb and
blind to the threats from Islam, and the president is
an islamic apologist and a closet Muslim, the future
looks rough until we wake up. How many more
Hasan’s are there in our military and law
enforcement agencies across our country?
so true.
OUR Armed forces need to ‘weed’ out every muslim that is serving in OUR military and they better do it sooner, rather than later. We can’t depend on our first black president to keep us safe because he sides with the muslims, what’s up with that??????Lt. Gen. Robert Cone is more concerned about muslim soldiers on Ft. Hood being harassed, than by Hasan killing 13 innocent victims. Cone should be replaced with aREAL conservative leader that will make sure OUR military will not have to coddle to muslims in OUR military any longer. We are at WAR, muslims are the enemy and there is no sitting down and talking to these people because they are brought up on hate for the ‘non-believers’ and talking will not change things. GET THEM OUT OF UNIFORM NOW AND KEEP THEM OUT OF OUR MILITARY.
you said it, sister!
I heard Commander Robert Cone say on TV that they were making sure that the Muslims in the military did not feel the backlash of this heinous crime. Heinous crime are my words. I think i can safely say that this is not the thing most Americans are worried about right now. I would venture to say that most Americans are worried about whether or not the Muslims in the military are being investigated so as to prevent a repeat.