well, it could have been worse... he could have fired his gun near her head.
Allen West is my hero. He is one of the political types I tell my kids to emulate. Wish he was from Texas.
You want your kids to get kicked out of the military? OOoops, I mean to retire early or get a court martial.
That is what you want for your kids? Wow.
Yup. West sent his guys out so that there careers would not be destroyed along with his. He did nothing wrong in my mind. It was self defense. He was run out for political reasons.
http://www.politifact.com/florida/s.../glenn-beck-says-allen-west-modern-day-ronin/
The facts behind West's Iraq interrogation
Beck's claim is from 2003, when West was serving in Iraq as a lieutenant colonel overseeing an artillery battalion of about 650 soldiers and officers.
In early August, soldiers received a tip that West and one of his subordinate battery commanders were to be the subject of an assassination attempt. The same informant returned with the names of three people involved in the planning of the assassination, including an Iraqi policeman, Yehiya Kadoori Hamoodi.
Hamoodi was apprehended and brought in for questioning.
What happened next comes from accounts provided by West and the other soldiers involved in the interrogation through sworn statements they gave during a subsequent military investigation.
West joined the interrogation in progress after soldiers were unable to get useful information from Hamoodi. West said soldiers told him Hamoodi was being evasive and belligerent.
That's when the interrogation got more physical. Soldiers punched and shoved Hamoodi when he wouldn't answer interrogators' questions. At some point, West sat down across from Hamoodi, took out his 9mm pistol and placed it on his thigh pointing in Hamoodi's direction.
"I'm here for a reason," West said, according to a solider. "You are going to tell me who wants to kill me, or I am going to kill you."
Then they took Hamoodi outside and placed his head over a clearing barrel -- a barrel filled with sand where people can unload firearms safely. West showed Hamoodi the gun and told him he had five seconds to talk. "I brought his head down toward the barrel using my left hand to shield him away from any sand or blast," West told investigators.
Then West fired into the sand, at least once, maybe three times, inches from Hamoodi's head.
Then West fired into the sky.
Some soldiers thought West had shot Hamoodi. But Hamoodi was alive, and though stiff from shock, was ready to talk.
West headed back to the operations center, and let the interrogation conclude.
Maybe they should secede if everyone there shares Momanohedhunter's belief.
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