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And that psychiatrist is none other than Peter Breggin writing on the Huffington Post.

“Before I begin to look at his role as a psychiatrist, I want to confirm that Major Nidal Malik Hasan was driven by religious ideology. For years he openly claimed that the War on Terror is a war on Muslims. He announced on the Internet and to his fellow soldiers in a course on public health that a Muslim suicide bomber should be praised for killing a hundred soldiers. It’s reported that fellow soldiers warned his superiors that he was a ticking time bomb.

“One wonders how and why the army failed to relieve him from active duty. One ridiculous explanation is that they had a lot invested him–his complete medical and psychiatric training. Much more likely, the army was hamstrung by the political correctness that’s been imposed upon it.

“Let’s also see through yet another media smoke screen–that Hasan was more a crazy person than a terrorist. During the American revolution Samuel Adams pointed out that he’d never seen a man commit treason without first losing his moral footing in his personal life. As for being a victim of prejudice, Hasan was instead a provocateur whom the army tried to ignore. Hasan is not only a terrorist, he’s a traitor–a man who turned on his nation; on the army that nurtured, educated and paid him; and on his comrades in arms.”

I know some feel that the term “terrorist” is a bit much for Maj. Hasan’s murderous rampage, but given all that was tangled up in his motivations I can understand why some people are tossing the term around. Breggin also tosses several other bombs: stating that psychiatrists at Walter Reed are only interested in medication and that the military has been deluded by modern psychiatry and so on.

And this:

“The odds are that Dr. Hasan was self-medicating with antidepressants and tranquilizers that were causing his increasing disinhibition, at least in his pronouncements, until his final Allahu Akbar before he began shooting.”

We shall see someday if Maj. Hasan was medicated in some fashion since the Senate will likely investigate the very tragic events of last Thursday.

The New York Times has photos of the 13 murder victims here.

The AP is now reporting a story first reported by the (London) Telegraph that:

“The alleged Fort Hood shooter apparently attended the same Virginia mosque as two Sept. 11 hijackers in 2001, at a time when a radical imam preached there.”

Oh, boy. This story is going to continue to get uglier and uglier.

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