Col. Allen B. West penned an essay about the 'Tragedy at Ft. Hood.
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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