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Example: [Collected via e-mail, November 2009] For those of you who don't know, Col. Allen West is running for U.S. Congressman Ron Klein's seat in Florida. Attached is his articleregarding the shootings at Ft. Hood, Texas. Please take a few minutes to read what he wrote.Tragedy at Ft HoodLieutenant Colonel Allen B West (US Army, Ret) This past Thursday 13 American Soldiers were killed and another 30 wounded at a horrific mass shooting at US Army installation, Ft Hood Texas. As I watched in horror and then anger I recalled my two years of final servicein the Army as a Battalion Commander at Ft Hood, 2002-2004.My wife and two daughters were stunned at the incident having lived on the post in family housing.A military installation, whether it is Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine, or Coast Guard, is supposed to be a safe sanctuary for our Warriors and their families. It is intended to provide a home whereby our Band of Brothers and Sisters can find solace and bond beyond just the foxhole but as family units.A military installation is supposed to be a place where our Warriors train for war, to serve and protect our Nation.On Thursday, 5 November 2009 Ft Hood became a part of the battlefield in the war against Islamic totalitarianism and state sponsored terrorism.There may be those who feel threatened by my words and would even recommend they not be uttered. To those individuals I say step aside because now is not the time for cowardice. Our Country has become so paralyzed by political correctness that we have allowed a vile and determined enemy to breach what should be the safest place in America, an Army post.We have become so politically correct that our media is more concerned about the stress of the shooter, Major Nidal Malik Hasan. The misplaced benevolence intending to portray him as a victim is despicable. The fact that there are some who have now created an entire new classification called; pre-virtual vicarious Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is unconscionable.This is not a man caused disaster. It is what it is, an Islamic jihadist attack.We have seen this before in 2003 when a SGT Hasan of the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) threw hand grenades and opened fire into his Commanding Officer's tent in Kuwait. We have seen the foiled attempt of Albanian Muslims who sought to attack Ft Dix, NJ. Recently we saw a young convert to Islam named Carlos Bledsoe travel to Yemen, receive terrorist training, and return to gun down two US Soldiers at a Little Rock, Arkansas Army recruiting station. We thwarted another Islamic terrorist plot in North Carolina which had US Marine Corps Base, Quantico as a target.What have we done with all these prevalent trends? Nothing.What we see are recalcitrant leaders who are refusing to confront the issue, Islamic terrorist infiltration into America, and possibly further into our Armed Services. Instead we have a multiculturalism and diversity syndrome on steroids.Major Hasan should have never been transferred to Ft Hood, matter of fact he should have been Chaptered from the Army. His previous statements, poor evaluation reports, and the fact that the FBI had him under investigation for jihadist website posting should have been proof positive.However, what we have is a typical liberal approach to find a victim, not the 13 and 30 Soldiers and Civilian, but rather the poor shooter. A shooter who we are told was a great American, who loved the Army and serving his Nation and the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) stating that his actions had nothing to do with religious belief.We know that Major Hasan deliberately planned this episode; he did give away his possessions. He stood atop a table in the confined space of the Soldier Readiness Center shouting Allahu Akhbar, same chant as the 9-11 terrorists and those we fight against overseas in the Iraq and Afghanistan theaters of operation.No one in leadership seems willing to sound the alarm for the American people; they are therefore complicit in any future attacks. Our Congressshould suspend the insidious action to vote on a preposterous andunconstitutional healthcare bill and resolve the issue of protecting theAmerican people.The recent incidents in Dearborn Michigan, Boston Massachusetts, DallasTexas, and Chicago Illinois should bear witness to the fact that we havean Islamic terrorism issue in America. And don't have CAIR call me and tryto issue a vanilla press statement; they are an illegitimate terroristassociated organization which should be disbanded.We have Saudi Arabia funding close to 80% of the mosques in the UnitedStates, one right here in South Florida, Pompano Beach. Are we buildingchurches and synagogues in Saudi Arabia? Are Kaffirs and Infidelsallowed travel to Mecca?So much for peaceful coexistence.Saudi Arabia is sponsoring radical Imams who enter into our prisons andconvert young men into a virulent Wahabbist ideology ... one resulting infour individuals wanting to destroy synagogues in New York with plasticexplosives. Thank God the explosives were dummy. They are sponsoringtextbooks which present Islamic centric revisionist history in ourschools.We must recognize that there is an urgent need to separate thetheo-political radical Islamic ideology out of our American society. Wemust begin to demand surveillance of suspected Imams and mosques that arespreading hate and preaching the overthrow of our ConstitutionalRepublic ... that speech is not protected under First Amendment, it issedition and if done by an American treason.There should not be some 30 Islamic terrorist training camps in Americathat has nothing to do with First Amendment, Freedom of Religion. TheSaudis are not our friends and any American political figure who believessuch is delusional.When tolerance becomes a one way street it certainly leads to culturalsuicide. We are on that street. Liberals cannot be trusted to defend ourRepublic, because their sympathies obviously lie with their perceivedvictim, Major Nidal Malik Hasan.I make no apologies for these words, and anyone angered by them, please,go to Ft Hood and look into the eyes of the real victims. The tragedy atFt Hood Texas did not have to happen. Consider now the feelings of thosethere and on every military installation in the world. Consider thefeelings of the Warriors deployed into combat zones who now are concernedthat their loved ones at home are in a combat zone.Ft Hood suffered an Islamic jihadist attack, stop the denial, and realizea simple point.The reality of your enemy must become your own.Steadfast and Loyal,Lieutenant Colonel Allen B West (US Army, Ret) Origins: The above-quoted opinion piece about the Fort Hood shootings was penned by Army veteran Lieutenant Colonel Allen West and was published on the Red County web site on 8 November 2009. It is also linked from the Allen West for Congress web site, which includes biographical information and other writings by its author. (West won election to Congress as a Florida representative in November 2010.) In January 2012, the Weekly Standard published a letter from Rep. West commenting on the controversy over a video clip showing U.S. Marines urinating on the corpses of Taliban fighters: I have sat back and assessed the incident with the video of our Marines urinating on Taliban corpses. I do not recall any self-righteous indignation when our Delta snipers Shugart and Gordon had their bodies dragged through Mogadishu. Neither do I recall media outrage and condemnation of our Blackwater security contractors being killed, their bodies burned, and hung from a bridge in Fallujah.All these over-emotional pundits and armchair quarterbacks need to chill. Does anyone remember the two Soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division who were beheaded and gutted in Iraq?The Marines were wrong. Give them a maximum punishment under field grade level Article 15 (non-judicial punishment), place a General Officer level letter of reprimand in their personnel file, and have them in full dress uniform stand before their Battalion, each personally apologize to God, Country, and Corps videotaped and conclude by singing the full US Marine Corps Hymn without a teleprompter.As for everyone else, unless you have been shot at by the Taliban, shut your mouth, war is hell.
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