"WH: President, first lady to attend Fort Hood memorial service"

[DearAbby]

Fort Hood, Texas (CNN) - As investigators at Fort Hood meticulously probed Thursday's grisly massacre, a Texas surgeon said more of the wounded victims of the shootings were slowly but surely on the mend.

Flanked by Texas Gov. Rick Perry and two state representatives, W. Roy Smythe, chief of surgery at Scott & White Memorial Hospital, said "a lot of progress has been made" in treating patients wounded in the rampage and that "some of them are out of the woods."

But Smythe told reporters in a Saturday news conference there is a possibility some patients will be "physically impaired" for life. And, he said, there's "no doubt many" will be "psychologically impaired the rest of their lives."

Thursday's mass shooting left 12 soldiers and one civilian dead and 38 others wounded at the Fort Hood Army Post in Texas. Thirty-four of the injured had gunshot wounds, military officials said. The suspect in the shooting, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, a licensed Army psychiatrist, was among the two dozen who remained hospitalized Friday night.

Hasan was transported by air Friday afternoon to Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, and had been listed in critical but stable condition.

The incident has sparked national outrage. In his Saturday address, President Obama said it was "an act of violence that would have been heartbreaking had it occurred anyplace in America." But the president said, "it's all the more heartbreaking and all the more despicable because of the place where it occurred and the patriots who were its victims."

The White House said President Obama and the first lady will be attending a memorial service on Tuesday and the president ordered flags flying over the White House and other federal buildings to be lowered to half-staff until Veterans Day on Wednesday.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/11/07/wh-president-first-lady-to-attend-fort-hood-memorial-service/

[proteus_lives]

1. Good.

They should be there.

[DearAbby]

2. President Obama has always been respectful of those in the Military

I would have been surprised had he elected not to go.

[Oeditpus Rex]

3. W and I-Killed-A-Guy were there last night

The fundie whackjobs are using it as proof that the W's are "classy" and Obama hates the military:

http://rr-bb.com/showthread.php?t=115700



Thank God for a true man like George Bush. What does it really say about our current CIC when a former president is the only one to show up?

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Yes! Thank God for George Bush to have compassion Obama does not have!!

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Yep! Bush has the kind of class that the liberals don't understand.

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Hurray for Bush! A true American not like that phony we have in office. Can you imagine the moral of our soldiers when there commander in chief wont even visit after a tragedy like this?



How conveniently they seem to forget that W has nothing else to do.

[Cha]

4. For the record..fuck bush.