Thanks Phil. That kind of takes away from the "he snapped" argument, doesn't it?

Have they released a list of the dead. A friend of mine from high school is stationed there. I know he was out on training all week but he is due to deploy soon. I haven't heard from him on FB and dont really wanna call his Grandma yet.

Jerry

If he did have these opinions about the US foreign policy, it brings up another point. What was he doing being allowed to treat soldiers suffering from PTSD caused by implementing those policies ? What kind of poison was he spewing into their already troubled minds ?

All this Political Correctness is the rope with which we will hang ourselves.

No longer me; I have torn up the stakes and moved my tent to a different campground. I'm done with all this PC crap.

Not true. He went through the Uniformed Services Health Academy to get his MD and his psychiatric residency so he owed the Army a significant amount of time afterward. The Army paid for his training to become a doctor, they expect something in return. Most of the time it is a six to ten year comittment afterward. I don't know what his contract called for.

I'm sure some "official statement" from Al Qaeda will be issued soon from somewhere in cyberspace.

He hired a lawyer to try and get out of his army contract.

Thanks, Tom, I'd overlooked that. In any case, this guy makes the ones who go AWOL or simply refuse to deploy look honorable.

A lawyer? Man he really wanted to get out of the army, just theoretically, is it possible that he was feeling his hate towards American was increasing and he figured if he could get away from the army it might decrease? Afterall, since he managed to rise to the rank of Major, it's obvious that this is not simply some Islamic nutter, obviously this is/has been an intelligent person.

There's so many possibilities right now, I hope the official inquiries into the whole massacre gets the relatives of the deceased some answers.. Why, and how, could this happen in the most modern army in the world?

Because that modern army is part of a modern society which allows Political Correctness to trump all else.

I'm beginning to wonder about the lawyer thing. I suspect he was told by the Army that he will have to serve out his contract and that may have sent him over the edge. The Army isn't going to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars training someone only to have them bail on them a couple of years afterward.