Hasan’s victims struggle with benefits
Fort Hood shooting victim Staff Sergeant Shawn Manning tells Fox News of his trials and tribulations with the military healthcare system to get treatment for his injuries resulting from the six bullet wounds that happened when Nidal Hasan blasted away at Fort Hood, six years ago;
“I think part of the pushback is there’s still people that are reluctant to label the shooting as a terrorist attack,” Manning added. “Both within the Department of the Army, Defense Department and the government itself.”
Meanwhile, Hasan, waiting for his fate on the Army’s death row has penned a 100-page Bernathian-style treatise on his crime, “justifying his extreme religious views and claiming his faith is inconsistent with American democracy”. I guess the significance of his oath to “protect and defend the Constitution of the United States” escapes the jihadist. But, I guess the point of the article is to juxtapose the irony of the victims trying to get recognition from a government for the wounds they endured in the war against terror while Hasan is making their case for them.
Still using the acronym SOA, or soldier of Allah, Hasan wrote: “My Jihad on November 5, 2009 was in the defense of the Taliban in Afghanistan, who I viewed as imperfect Muslims trying to establish the perfect religion of All-Might God as supreme on the land against Americas attempt to impose a western type of democracy.”
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In his writings, Hasan has left no doubt that the first American targeted for death by the CIA in 2011, Anwar al-Awlaki, was a mentor and spiritual guide.
In August, Hasan pledged his loyalty to ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi while asking to be “made a citizen of the Islamic State.”
I guess the Obama Administration is loath to admit that the war followed our soldiers home from the war in the middle east because the BDS crowd was so staunchly opposed to a war waged by a Republican president. For that reason, the war continues and the troops are the ones who suffer, because a Nobel Prize winning President can’t unilaterally declare the end to a war and simply ignore it’s continuing effects.
Thanks to Hondo for the link.
Category: Terror War, Veterans Issues
‘Welcome, Jonn.
I mean really – why in the hell should it take 6+ months to write a freaking two-sentence guidance memo for MEDDACs? Hell, I’ll write the damn thing for them:
“The 2009 attack at Fort Hood, TX, by a worthless turncoat bastard terrorist named Nidal Hassan has been determined to qualify those injured in the attack for the Purple Heart. PEBs will therefore consider injuries resulting from that incident to be the result of combat involving an armed enemy of the United States.”
At first glance I thought to myself that can’t be correct. This is outrageous. I wonder if SSG Manning has contacted his congressman? Election season the vultures should be tripping over themselves to right this wrong.
Lars will get his tidy whities in a wad over this post.
Fa’kheem.
FU€£ HIM !!!!!!!!
HOOOOOOOOAH ! ! ! !
Lars doesn’t wear tighty whities.
He wears little girl underwear. Probably Dora or My Little Pony.
Spiderman
Nah; more like Winnie the Pooh.
I thought al-Baghdadi was dead. The FBI still has him on their ‘most wanted’ list, though, so what do I know?
You see, the money that would go to help these injured troops can go to other programs that mean nothing and will fail in the long run, but will be very costly, such as that dumbed-down curriculum known as common core.
There’s no COLA for socsec or VADC, either, next year, so don’t expect the people who were injured by that pimple on Satan’s hairy ass to get any kind of compensation at all. They’re lucky if they even get any VA benefits now.
At least the money won’t go for a gas station in Afghanistan ’cause we already got that.
Meanwhile, B. Hussein 0bama, the demo-rats and RINOS hand out as much as they can as fast as they can to illegal aliens and welfare flunkies.
API. don’t forget about the flights that Obummer has been sending and the recruiting the they have been doing to pick up Refugees in Central America…
Why should it matter? The injuries were sustained on active duty and continue to have medical consequences requiring treatment… who caused them and where they occurred should not be a factor.
Remember when you could trust the government to live up to its obligations? Me neither.
This.
If it had happened in a training accident, the results as far as medical benefits should be the same.
Federal law – for better or worse – now says differently. Combat injuries under certain conditions receive additional, special compensation/benefits for which non-combat injuries do not qualify.
The equity here is in seeing that a guy/gal shot by an enemy of the USA in Iraq or Afghanistan and a guy/gal shot by an enemy of the USA in CONUS receive equal treatment. So far, for the folks shot by the turncoat bastard Hassan at Fort Hood . . . that has NOT happened.
While I certainly understand that definitions and circumstances are important to certain benefits above and beyond those which everyone else gets, I have no understanding, and assume that there is no explanation which could make me understand, why any injuries would be treated with less haste and whatever additional treatment is required depending upon the source of the injury. Benefits for the care of ANY injury incurred while on active duty should get the same level of medical care. Given the first sentence Jonn wrote, I thought that follow-on medical treatment was the topic under discussion here.
Anyway, yes, folks, it should be very easy to conclude that a man who claims to be an enemy combatant, documents a willingness to be one and then attacks members of our military is in fact an enemy combatant. Actually, that should be one of the easiest conclusions to draw. But NO, the idiots don’t want to do that so will continue to waste untold amounts of our money to pretend that it is otherwise.
That’s because every decision made by this administration is first run through the political filters of the Rat Bastard Commies that infest it at all levels. It is never about what is good or right, it is about the politics involved, the political advantage gained or the furtherance of their agenda.
I’d say that, if his faith is inconsistent with American democracy, his best option would have been to resign his commission and head to Saudi Arabia.