From: jj Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2010 Subject: THIS IS CLASS : Ft. Hood Photo & Explanation
related: http://www.snopes.com/photos/military/forthood.asp [Collected via e-mail, November 2009]
TRUE: Photograph shows former president | |
UNDETERMINED: President Bush arrived at Fort Hood without an escort and was asked to leave by the White House. | |
FALSE: President Obama visited Fort Hood merely to "hold a photo session in a gym." |
Visiting the injured. Until o'no! intervened?
Fort Hood Photo & Explanation
George W. Bush heard about Fort Hood, got in his car without any escort --- apparently they did not have time to react, and drove to Fort Hood. He was stopped at the gate and the guard could not believe who he had just stopped. Bush only ask for directions to the hospital then drove on. The gate guard called that "The president Is on Fort Hood and driving to the hospital." The base went bananas looking for Obama. When they found it was Bush they immediately offered escort.. He stayed at Fort Hood for over six hours [1 1/2-2 hrs per other sources] and was finally asked to leave by a message from the White House. [underdetermined per Snopes]
Obama flew in days later and held a "photo " session in a gym and did not even go to the hospital. [per other sources he did meet with
All this I picked up from two soldiers here who happened to be at Fort Hood when it happened.
This Bush/Obama/Ft. Hood story is something that should be sent to every voter in the US. Scroll down to see mentioned photo & story.
Class shows up...
The doctor had his TV on in his office when the news of the military base shootings came on. The husband of one of his employees was stationed there. He called her into his office and as he told her what had happened, she got a text message from her husband saying, "I am okay." Her cell phone rang right after she read the message. It was an ER nurse, "I'm the one who just sent you a text, not your husband. I thought it would be comforting but I was mistaken in doing so. I am sorry to tell you this, but your husband has been shot 4 times and he is in surgery."
The soldier's wife left Southern Clinic in Dothan and drove all night to Ft. Hood. When she arrived, she found out her husband was out of surgery and would be OK. She rushed to his room and found that he already had visitors there to comfort him. He was just waking up and found his wife and the visitors by his side The nurse took this picture.
What? No news crews and cameras? This is how people with class respond and pay respect to those in uniform.
Former President George W. Bush and his wife Laura secretly visited Fort Hood last night and spent "considerable time" consoling those who were wounded in Thursday's shooting spree, Fox News has learned.
The Bushes entered and departed the sprawling military facility in secret, having told the base commander they did not want press coverage of their visit, a source told Fox News.
The couple was described as "deeply concerned" about military families on Fort Hood after Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan allegedly opened fire on soldiers and civilians, killing 13 and wounding 38.
reference: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/11/07/george-w-bush-secretly-visits-fort-hood-victims/
Dec 26 2009, 6:30 pm
Why The President Went Golfing Today
In Fahrenheit 9/11, filmmaker Michael Moore juxtaposes images and words of a terrorist attack in Israel with President Bush's first words about the incident, spoken to a press pool on a golf course, with him leaning casually against a tree. Today, as the nation's law enforcement agencies respond to an attempted terrorist attack on U.S. soil [Ft. Hood], as the cable news channels and news websites pull in reinforcements to cover the incident from all angles, President Obama has been silent.
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