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Lt. Colonel Alan West's full response regarding the Marines urination on dead Taliban
Weekly Standard ^ | January 2012 | Alan West

Posted on 01/26/2012 7:03:26 AM PST by Jeff Head

In case you did not see it, here's Lieutenant Colonel (now U.S. Congressman) Alan West’s full response on the Marines’ video, the one where Marines are shown urinating on dead Taliban corpses.

“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.”


TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: islam; islamicjihad; jihad; nobama
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To: Jeff Head
This is essentially of a duplicate thread. This one was posted over a week ago, and has 50 replies:

Take it from Allen West on Marine urination flap: ‘War is hell’

21 posted on 01/26/2012 8:07:12 AM PST by mvpel (Michael Pelletier)
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To: Jeff Head

Excellent! Good one, Jeff Head!


22 posted on 01/26/2012 8:12:28 AM PST by TEXOKIE (... and HAPPY NEW YEAR to all FREEPERS EVERYWHERE!)
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To: Jeff Head
I must admit that I haven't heard or read anything about two of our Air Assault soldiers being beheaded.

How'd I miss that?!



Where there's a shell, there's a way.

25 years ago, we had Ronald Reagan, Johnny Cash, and Bob Hope.
Today we have Obama, no cash, and no hope!

If you can't appreciate the pure beauty of the violin after hearing this, something's wrong with your ears.

Or you can get raw with these strings.

How about this gamechanger from America's Got Talent (which they SHOULD have won).

And finally, this, dedicated to the one and only rdb2, whose eyes are growing dim.

Either way, the violin is sweet yet LETHAL.

Do it!

23 posted on 01/26/2012 8:16:01 AM PST by rdb3 (><>The mouth is the exhaust pipe of the heart. <><)
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To: JLAGRAYFOX

Well, I have great hopes that the majority of them will ultimately recognize the harm being done them, and get off the reservation. With folks like West, Rice, Thomas, Keyes, etc., etc. to look at, and the message getting out, more and more, over time will turn away from the entitlement/dependency syndrome to self dependance and responsibility.

If we could get 12-16 years of Hosue, Senate and Executive control, we would make HUGE strides in that area as we rolled back the evil the DNC and libs have perpetrated. This would mean new judges, repealed/over-turned legislation, canned agencies, etc., etc.

That’s my hope and Dream.


24 posted on 01/26/2012 8:19:35 AM PST by Jeff Head (Liberty is not free. Never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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To: patriot08

He understands American interests and will be a champion for them at every turn...including the borders.

I’d love to see him and Newt run together, win this thing, and then have Newt for eight years, followed by West for eight more.


25 posted on 01/26/2012 8:21:24 AM PST by Jeff Head (Liberty is not free. Never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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To: Jeff Head

And an afghan soldier turned on french soldiers and killed around 5 people. When they interrogated him he cited this urination incident as the reason which infuriated him to the point of doing what he did. Listing examples of what they did to our people means dick. If the enemy does something wedont agree with, or is not in our principles, we dont turn around and do the same thing. We are meant to be held at a higher standard.


26 posted on 01/26/2012 8:23:49 AM PST by hannibaal
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To: Jeff Head
In a saner time, the Marines merely would have scalped the Talibunnies and displayed those scalps on an effigy pole. Or deposited tobacco spittle on their foreheads like this guy did:
27 posted on 01/26/2012 8:25:31 AM PST by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: mvpel

Great, glad to see the word being spread by as many means as possible. That thread was from a different source and did not include the whole statement by West in the head of the thread.

I’m glad the word is getting out and being seen by as many people as possible.


28 posted on 01/26/2012 8:25:52 AM PST by Jeff Head (Liberty is not free. Never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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To: rdb3
Their checkpoint was attacked and they were taken...three altogether. Two were tortured and slaughtered, the thrid killed as well.

HERE's a link to the Story

I believe these are the ones Colonel West is talking about.

29 posted on 01/26/2012 8:30:36 AM PST by Jeff Head (Liberty is not free. Never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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To: hannibaal

1st, our troops didn’t do the “same thing”, or anything close.

2nd, no one is saying it is okay. West said they should be reprimanded under article 15, that a letter should be in their files, and that they should apologize to the troops and the country.

So, what you have said does not hold with what has been discussed or recommended by West or others on this thread.

Afghan soldiers have been turning on and killing allied troops the entire time. I would expect them to use that as an excuse, but if they are militant Islamics, their own core beliefs given them all the excuse they desire and they use it all the time.

IMHO, we should go into a place like Afghanistan, land locked and wih no real natural interests for the US, and wage unrestricted and complete war against the Taliban and Islamic Jihadists (like Al Quida) when they attack us, or provide refuge to thsoe who do, and anyone who supports them. Lay them waste...utterly, like we did the Nazis and Imperial Japanese.

Kill them and their leadership without relenting and without excuse.

Then, when we have done so and destroyed their ability to wage war against us away from their hell-hole, withdraw and let them know that if they come out of their hole again and try it again, we’ll be back to double down and do the same in spades.

But that’s just my opinion. Clearly there are a lot of Afghans who are fighting and dieing beside our troops against these people so they can have some measure of freedom. They are going to have to get to the point where they outnumber and defeat their own enemeies themselves...if we can help them do that...fine...otherwise, revert to the scenario I just outlined.


30 posted on 01/26/2012 8:39:55 AM PST by Jeff Head (Liberty is not free. Never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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To: VA_Gentleman

Mine too. We certainly need him now.


31 posted on 01/26/2012 8:39:55 AM PST by Bitsy
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To: little jeremiah
The other day there was an article where Newt was proposing West for VP.

From his lips to God's ear. Either that, or SecDef.

32 posted on 01/26/2012 8:40:18 AM PST by Albion Wilde (A land of hyper-legalisms is not the same as a land of law. --Mark Steyn)
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To: Jeff Head

Watch this short video. Start at 1:38:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXOfrw648Qg

West states in no uncertain terms that Islam is the enemy-
and ‘moderate’ Muslims don’t exist.
This man is the only one brave enough to tell America the truth.


33 posted on 01/26/2012 8:40:27 AM PST by patriot08 (TEXAS GAL- born and bred and proud of it!Ho)
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To: TEXOKIE

Thank you TexOkie...spread the word. West is a very good man.

BTW, I was raised on a small ranch just south of that old Red River, about 20+ miles north and west of Denton, TX. I figured your handle, TEXOKIE would relate.


34 posted on 01/26/2012 8:41:53 AM PST by Jeff Head (Liberty is not free. Never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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To: patriot08
Yes he is willing to speak directly and straight.

...there are others who recognize this and say it, but he is in the position to get the word out.

The left, DNC, and MSM will attack him relentlessly as he goes forward, but I trust God in Heaven to keep him safe and for the people of this nation to have the clear choice to hear, listen and get on board and remove the abject marxist currently in the White House and his enablers in the House and Senate.

35 posted on 01/26/2012 9:01:02 AM PST by Jeff Head (Liberty is not free. Never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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