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Dobbs says caller makes a "good point" in suggesting American Muslim soldiers must be "thoroughly screened"

November 06, 2009 4:11 pm ET

From the November 6 edition of United Stations Radio Networks' The Lou Dobbs Show:

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    • Author by DAWUSS (November 06, 2009 4:16 pm ET)
         
      Ummm... ALL soldiers are thoroughly screened. It's taken(ing) me almost 5 months just to see if I qualify to enlist in the USAF!
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    • Author by wolf kotenberg (November 06, 2009 4:18 pm ET)
         
      Screened caller,that is. Or caller might actually be his producer.
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    • Author by mwjarv (November 06, 2009 4:19 pm ET)
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      Oh how quickly we forget US Histoy: Timothy James McVeigh (April 23, 1968 – June 11, 2001) was a United States Army veteran and security guard who was convicted of bombing the Alfred P. Murrah Building in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995, the second anniversary of the Waco Siege, as revenge or to inspire a revolt against what he considered a tyrannical federal government. The bombing killed 168 people and was the deadliest act of terrorism within the United States prior to the September 11, 2001 attacks.

      He was a decorated veteran of the United States Army, having served in the Gulf War, where he was awarded a Bronze Star. He had been a top-scoring gunner with the 25mm cannon of the Bradley Fighting Vehicles used by the U.S. 1st Infantry Division to which he was assigned. He served at Fort Riley, Kansas, before Operation Desert Storm. At Fort Riley, McVeigh completed the Primary Leadership Development Course (PLDC). McVeigh later would say that the Army taught him how to switch off his emotions.
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      • Author by Indy (November 06, 2009 6:23 pm ET)
           
        Exactly. McVeigh was a white registered Republican. Why stop at religious screenings. Let's really get our Twilight Zone "The Monsters are Due on Maple Street" hysteria on! Pretty soon we'll just screen our selfs right out of existence. Boy that Dobbs is a genius.
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    • Author by bintx (November 06, 2009 4:23 pm ET)
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      Screening military candidates based upon their religious preference is un-Constitutional and un-American. Our Founding Fathers are spinning in their graves.
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    • Author by Sharpe (November 06, 2009 4:32 pm ET)
         
      Its the same reason that no one intervened in columbine or virginia tech or Oklahoma City. These are not about excessive tolerance but the exact opposite - excessive intolerance. None of these murders felt accepted, all had major mental instability, most of them were harassed for being different or rejected by many. They all had an obsession with weapons. None of those that were closest to these people could recognize warning signs and none of them received proper medical treatment and counseling. I love how these morons claim that the problem here is too much acceptance or too much tolerance of others when in fact, this tells us even more strongly how intolerant this society at large can be.
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    • Author by Publius39 (November 06, 2009 6:00 pm ET)
         
      I don't understand why Muslims should be the only ones screened when it comes to service to our country. If that's the case, screen all religions, because Islam is not the only religion in which the lunatic fundamentalists have committed atrocities. How about the Crusades, the Inquisition, the Reformation, the KKK, David Caresh and a slew of other atrocities that have been committed by those who DO NOT follow Allah? Oh, I forgot, Islam is the boogeyman for the right.
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    • Author by Boxer1979 (November 06, 2009 8:20 pm ET)
         
      Dobbs your brain needs to be screened!
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    • Author by teabaggers ♥ [wing]NUTS (November 07, 2009 1:11 am ET)
         
      so non-muslims shouldnt be thoroughly screened? dobbs is probably stupid enough to forget that caucasians have also committed similar crimes.
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