Lt. Colonel Allen B. West - AMERICAN PATRIOT AND LEADER WITH INTEGRITY!

A few days ago I received the below in an email from a friend. I was struck what I read, and was moved to do some research on the author - Lt. Col Allen B. West, US Army, Retired. The results of my research follow this open letter by a man who "tells it like it is". I post this with the Colonel's kind permission:
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Lieutenant Colonel Allen B West (US Army, Ret) Statement on Fort Hood
Shooting.

"Tragedy at Ft Hood"

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 service in 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 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 find a victim. No , 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 Congress should suspend the insidious action to vote on a preposterous and unconstitutional health care bill and resolve the issue of "protecting the American people".

The recent incidents in Dearborn Michigan, Boston Massachusetts, Dallas Texas, and Chicago Illinois should bear witness to the fact that we have an Islamic terrorism issue in America. And don't have CAIR call me and try to issue a vanilla press statement; they are an illegitimate terrorist associated organization which should be disbanded. We have Saudi Arabia funding close to 80% of the mosques in the United States, one right here in South Florida, Pompano Beach. Are we building churches and synagogues in Saudi Arabia? Are "Reaffirms" and "Infidels" allowed travel to Mecca?

So much for peaceful coexistence.

Saudi Arabia is sponsoring radical Imams who enter into our prisons and convert young men into a virulent Shabbiness ideology, one resulting in four individuals wanting to destroy synagogues in New York with plastic explosives. Thank God the explosives were dummy. They are sponsoring textbooks, which present Islamic centric revisionist history in our schools.

We must recognize that there is an urgent need to separate the theo-political radical Islamic ideology out of our American society. We must begin to demand surveillance of suspected Imams and mosques that are spreading hate and preaching the overthrow of our Constitutional Republic... that speech is not protected under First Amendment, it is sedition and if done by an American treason.

There should not be some 30 Islamic terrorist training camps in America that has nothing to do with First Amendment, Freedom of Religion. The Saudis are not our friends and any American political figure who believes such is delusional.

When tolerance becomes a one way street it certainly leads to cultural suicide. We are on that street. Liberals cannot be trusted to defend our Republic, because their sympathies obviously lie with their perceived victim, 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 at Ft Hood Texas did not have to happen. Consider now the feelings of those there and on every military installation in the world. Consider the feelings of the Warriors deployed into combat zones who now are concerned that their loved ones at home are in a combat zone.

Ft Hood suffered an Islamic jihadist attack, stop the denial, and realize a simple point… the reality of your enemy must become your own.

Steadfast and Loyal,

Lieutenant Colonel Allen B West (US Army, Ret)

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What I discovered through my own research made me like him even more!

"An officer in Iraq who used shock interrogation tactics to thwart an impending attack on American soldiers was punished with forfeiture of two month's pay, according to his lawyer.

Previously faced with the possibility of a court martial, Lt. Col. Allen B. West accepted Article 15 non-judicial punishment from the commanding general of the 4th Infantry Division at a hearing today in Tikrit, Iraq, said Neal A. Puckett, a retired Marine officer.

Puckett said the loss of pay amounts to $5,000.

"I'm pleased that it's over with," West told WorldNetDaily by telephone from San Antonio, Texas. "But I thought that taking $5,000 away from a guy who is about to retire was a little bit unnecessary."

"I didn't think that needed to be part of a sentence in order to send whatever message the commanding general thought he needed to send," he continued.

"Simply a letter of reprimand should have done it," Puckett insisted.

At his preliminary hearing, West acknowledged he allowed two soldiers to beat an Iraqi policeman who refused to reveal details of an ambush plot and fired his pistol near the man's head, threatening to kill him.

As WorldNetDaily reported, under threat of an attack, West took charge of the interrogation of an Iraqi policeman, Yahya Jhodri Hamoody, determined to flush out details as he warned subordinates "it could get ugly." Threatening to kill the Iraqi if he didn't talk, West fired a pistol near the policeman's head.

The scared policeman then immediately disclosed the information, leading to the arrest of two Iraqis last August and cessation of attacks on West's 4th Infantry Division battalion.

At the hearing last month, West was asked by his defense attorney if he would do it again.

"If it's about the lives of my men and their safety, I'd go through hell with a gasoline can." he said.

YA GOTTA LOVE A GUY LIKE THIS!

He is presently running for election as the Congressman from Florida's 22nd Congressional District... GOOD LUCK to him!!THEN VOTE FOR THE CHANGES YOU DO WANT!

Muslim radicals call Hasan 'Officer and a Gentleman'

United States Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan - a coward, a murderer, and a terrorist, was honored today on a radical Muslim web site. "Get Well Soon Major Nidal We Love You," said the website - Revolution Muslim - run by radicals who follow an imam once jailed in Britain. "Major Nidal Hasan M.D. An officer and a gentleman was injured while partaking in a pre-emptive attack."

We know the Muslim terrorists are all cowards, or they would wear uniforms and face their "enemy" in armed combat, rather than hiding among the civilian populations of the Muslim world, dressed as they dress.

Our equally cowardly left-wing media reports that Nidal is a "suspect" in the murderous rampage at Fort Hood. EXCUSE ME?? "SUSPECT!?" Can somebody explain to me exactly how that works? Picture this... you hear gunshots, you enter the building, find the location from where the gunshots came, and peer into the room. You see bodies lying all over the room, and one person standing up who is holding a gun (or guns). Is that person then a "suspect" in the shooting, or is he the de facto shooter? Forget what the law says, and use a bit of common sense (a quality which our laws, by and large, are lacking). Who else in the area is armed? Who else in the area is left standing? HE IS THE MURDERER! Or, was it just really bad timing on his part - showing up at a roomful of dead and wounded, while armed with recently fired weapons, and just a split second after the real murderer escaped? Talk about a run of bad luck! GET REAL!! Show me anybody who would believe that last scenario, and I'll show you somebody whose head is "up and locked in position"... or a bleeding-heart, left-wing liberal progressive... but that's redundant. (I apologize for repeating myself in paraphrase.)

How many more of the approximately 17,000 Muslim members of our armed forces are simply biding their time while awaiting an opportunity to do exactly the same thing? I realize that I should be ashamed of myself for painting all Muslims with the same wide brush, and that is something I would never have done prior to 9-11. Prior to that fateful day I begrudged no one their religious beliefs. I had worked with some very likable, outgoing Muslim men in the past, but now I had to ask myself this question - "Did I really know them?". Perhaps the better question today would be, "What did I not know about them that could be critically important?"
How many more of the approximately 2,500,000 mosque-attending Muslims in the USA are simply biding their time while awaiting an opportunity to kill as many of us as they can?

Know this - that if your name is Mohammed, Hassan, Abdullah or any name that sounds the least bit like you could be a Muslim, I will never be able to trust you. I will watch your every move with suspicion, and I will remain ready to react forcefully as long as you are in my presence. I understand that it is probably not your fault that I have adopted this attitude toward you and your brethren, but you must understand that my mistrust of you is my survival mechanism. To trust you today, as I would have in 2000, would be utterly foolish of me. Stay in front of me, make no sudden or furtive moves, and we may both survive our encounter. Failure to do so will only insure that one of us will not survive that meeting.

Shame on the United States Army for knowing that this man was psychologically disturbed, yet allowing him to remain in our Army. Perhaps, had he been relieved of his duties (and his commission) and discharged, this tragedy could have been avoided. he Army was "caught on the horns of a dilemma" though:
1. They wanted to recover the costs of his education and training through continued "service". (Even though he had been relieved of his duties at Walter Reed Hospital for [essentially] not being a good fit. According to the Army, they had known that he was suffering from some sort of psychological insufficiency for at least 6 months!)
3. They did not wish to be seen as theologically insensitive, or to be labeled as anti-Islam Muslim haters, by taking appropriate and timely action against him.

May God protect us from indulging our own sense of decency toward our fellow human beings, to the point that we become willing victims of those who would do us evil.

Oh, and while we're thinking about it, let's hope the FBI and Homeland Security hunt down, investigate, arrest and imprison those connected with the "Revolution Muslim" web site.