[Poohbah]

Btw, I'm watching the Col.'s attorney on O'Reilly right now and he said that the Army has just now decided not to court martial this American hero. ......And is pension is secure as well. He's going to get just a slap on the wrists, much to your chagrin I'd imagine.

Actually, it isn't to my chagrin. The guy's CO made a decision. That's the way it works.

I still think a lot less of West now than I did at the beginning. He chose to make a public spectacle of the matter, and "misled" the public regarding his actions in doing so.

[Jeff Head]

I have been in contact with West personally for several weeks now. At no time has he misled me in the least, a point I have pointed out in the threads I have posted.

Others, paraphrasing or parsing his words may have, but he has not.

As to his making a public spectacle. If this had been handled in this current fashion, which is what he expected and believed should happen, he would not have done anything. Someone was out to hang his hide on a rack and he exercised his own perogative in the end to save his pension for his family...and it worked. I cannot fault him for that.

In the end, you seem to suggest he should take the unwarrented loss of his pension and court martial "for the service". His oath is to the constitutiona and the wellbeing of this nation...he was willing to take one for that, and is now going to. But he was being treated (in his own estimation and in the estimation of many, many others) in a manner that was far disprorortionate to what he did and he determined to do something about it.

I am glad he did. Just my own opinion.