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Krauthammer’s Take

From Thursday night’s Fox News All-Stars.

On State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley’s comments on the murder of U.S. airmen by a Muslim in Germany: “For example, was the shooting of Congresswoman Gabby Giffords a terrorist attack? You have to look at the evidence and look at the motivation, and then you make a judgment and that is a process as far as I know that is ongoing”:

Unfortunately the State Department spokesman had a bad day here. You never ask a rhetorical question if the answer is not the one you want. Was Jared Loughner a terrorist? No. He was a paranoid psychotic without a political motive.

Was the guy in Germany a terrorist? All the evidence says yes. This is a guy who shouted by the word of many witnesses, repeatedly, Allahu Akbar, which is the jihadist cry, as he shot the Americans and as he was being taken away. And he was recently radicalized, a Muslim either born or emigrated out of Kosovo, and now he’s confessed. Clearly this was a jihadist attack.

And when the president came out and spoke yesterday about this, he talked about it as if it was a bus accident, a “tragedy.” It is incomprehensible why he cannot even say out loud that this could have been a jihadist attack, a part of the war on terror. This was an attack on the American military abroad, an attack on our country, an act of war by a terrorist enemy. And if a president can’t speak about that, what does that say to moderate Muslims around the world who are against jihadists and hear a president of the United States who won’t even speak the truth about it? It’s demoralizing.

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   03/04/11 14:49

This whole Obama administration is one giant disaster. Top down.

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   03/04/11 14:53

Well, according to his bio, he flacked on matters involving the World Trade Center "tragedy". I see a thread here.

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   03/04/11 15:21

What does it say to the jihadis? It says he's on their side.

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   03/04/11 15:22

If Obama comes down too hard on the terrorists, they won't fund his reelection campaign. As we saw last time with the credit card verification disabled, they could contribute quite a bit - and oil is up.

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Funny Hats
   03/04/11 15:30

“…what does that say to moderate Muslims around the world who are against jihadists and hear a president of the United States who won’t even speak the truth about it?”

It says that President Obama is just like them in that regard; he won’t speak the truth about it because doing so would draw attention to how non-jihadists twist the jihadist tenets of Islam to suit their non-Islamic agenda of humanitarianism and respect for non-Muslims.

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Monte Martinez
   03/04/11 15:32

There was a mass shooting in Utah with eerie similarities in 2007. Six were killed, 4 were wounded. External Link  . Salt Lake City’s uber liberal Mayor Rocky Anderson made a point of deflecting attention away from the Bosnian Moslem shooter, Sulejman Talović, and towards the NRA.

“Nothing to see here folks just move along.” Our soldiers are no longer safe in front of a recruiting station in Arkansas.
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Girls are routinely murdered here for violating sharia chastity codes and yet we will wring our hands and navel gaze over the shooting in Frankfort? We are at war with Islam, its people, its culture. Moslems are an existential threat to all western people and their values. Jihad has infected them as National Socialism infected the Germans in the 1930’s

We must end Moslem immigration now and wake up to the very real dangers that a 5 million man 5th column poses to our security. It is too late for Europe but we still have a fighting chance.

I am sure the president feels the same way about these attacks on our servicemen as I do about the shooting of Dr. Tiller i.e. “It is a shame that the world reacts so negatively to an act I am subconsciously sympathetic to.”

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   03/04/11 16:13

How are we supposed to win a war when we won't even say who the enemy is?

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   03/04/11 16:42

Our "White House" and it's spokesman are a cruel joke.

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   03/04/11 17:25

Apparently "terrorism" is the offense that dare not speak it's name as far at this administration is concerned.

Terrorism??? Nothing to see here folks, move along. Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain (you know, that guy with the bomb or the gun).

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   03/04/11 17:31

Frankly, this whole Administration presents some kind of a problem every day. And they are usually so out of line as to be completely outrageous. It doesn't matter whether it is Eric "you are all racists" Holder, or Napolitano, or Geithner, or one of the many cowed nitwits we have running so-called "intelligence", or Biden, or..on and on..When are we going to start talking about Obama fatigue?

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   03/04/11 19:39

"If Obama comes down too hard on the terrorists, they won't fund his reelection campaign. As we saw last time with the credit card verification disabled, they could contribute quite a bit - and oil is up."

I agree.

And besides, Obama doesn't care.

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