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The Army seems to be trying to keep it plain vanilla for now. I think they know more than they're telling.

No word on specific crime scene. They said he used two hand guns. Hard to believe one guy could hit that many targets with handguns before being taken down.

Some news guy or blog is saying the "two suspects" have been released but authorities are looking for another person.

It is being reported on the networks that the dead shooter was from Virginia and is a recent convert to Islam.

No eyewitness accounts from survivors as yet.

I SPECULATE that it is an act of personal terrorism but that's just a personal thought.

Update briefing from Ft Hood expected in a few minutes.

It was more then one person and one of them is a psychiatrist

Rog' on the psyc but I'm leaning toward single shooter now. One of his med associates was interviewed a few minutes ago and said the shooter was hostile to US policy in Iraq/Afghan and had suggested muslims in the US should strike out in a violent way.

Still, at this point, there is too much we don't know...

Just being around on base, would military personnel normally be armed?

Only MPs, guards and soldiers in an active training environment.

Wonder why this guy wasn't on somebody's radar...

I think he was but, from what I know at this point, I suspect that the climate of political correctness, prevented issues from being elevated and properly evaluated.

The following item appeared on the website of an NBC-TV affiliate. I must admit when I saw the president come on TV, I was shocked that he began by talking about the organizers of some government agency conference. A WTF moment for me.

After news broke out of the shooting at the Fort Hood Army post in Texas, the nation watched in horror as the toll of dead and injured climbed. The White House was notified immediately and by late afternoon, word went out that the president would speak about the incident prior to a previously scheduled appearance. At about 5 p.m., cable stations went to the president. The situation called for not only his trademark eloquence, but also grace and perspective.

But instead of a somber chief executive offering reassuring words and expressions of sympathy and compassion, viewers saw a wildly disconnected and inappropriately light president making introductory remarks. At the event, a Tribal Nations Conference hosted by the Department of Interior's Bureau of Indian affairs, the president thanked various staffers and offered a "shout-out" to "Dr. Joe Medicine Crow -- that Congressional Medal of Honor winner." Three minutes in, the president spoke about the shooting, in measured and appropriate terms. Who is advising him?

Anyone at home aware of the major news story of the previous hours had to have been stunned. An incident like this requires a scrapping of the early light banter.

How dare you even compare the two.


Obama had had several hours to take reports of the attack and to decide how to address it. He did not have an aide whisper the news of the attack in his ear as he addressed the scheduled gathering.

But Obama chose to deliver two-and-a-half minutes of political pandering to a small group before mentioning the massacre and addressing the national audience that was watching. There was a reason the networks put him on live TV and why viewers anticipated his remarks - It wasn't to listen to casual remarks to some conference organizers and attendees. It would have been so simple - and right - for the president to address the nation and not the people in the room (an aide should have announced that the president would address the nation before talking with them about the conference.)


Although Michael Moore and other Bush-haters transformed a few moments in a Florida classroom into an agonizingly protracted period of indecision and cynical calculation, George W. Bush on Sept. 11, 2001 had to internalize and respond to the news that a second plane had crashed into the WTC in real time. It is good to think before acting. It is good for a leader to not cause panic. I have always been comfortable with Bush's reaction. I am less impressed with the "system" surrounding him. IMO, the system was slow to take some actions that they constantly train for.

As a footnote, remember that the current president did not go into immediate emergency response mode when a commercial airliner crashed into the Hudson River. And, remember, we recently had another commercial airliner out of contact for about three hours when the pilots chose to play with their laptops instead of fly the plane. In this administration and all others, the best laid plans often prove worthless when surprise happens.

Surprise happened to George Bush on 9/11. Surprise did not happen to Barrack Obama when he stepped before the cameras on Wednesday afternoon. He had several hours headstart on the situation and his performance was disappointing.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0hiw8iXdMM&feature=player_embedded