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xocet

(3,870 posts)
Mon Apr 22, 2013, 10:16 PM Apr 2013

Allen West's Apparent Facebook Retreat...



From the Google Cache of http://www.facebook.com/ElectAllenWest/posts/10151857516861729 with commentary added.



Everyone should recall that Allen West has past experience in threatening people: it lead to the end of his military career.


THE STRUGGLE FOR IRAQ: INTERROGATIONS; How Colonel Risked His Career By Menacing Detainee and Lost
By DEBORAH SONTAG; Ian Fisher contributed reporting from Baghdad for this article
Published: May 27, 2004

In western Broward County, where Lt. Col. Allen B. West, 43, is preparing to start life over as a high school social studies teacher, the grass is green, the air is moist and the pressure is barometric. Iraq seems very far away, as does the night last August when Colonel West used his gun to coerce an Iraqi police officer during an interrogation.

Intent on foiling a reported plot to ambush him and his men, Colonel West, a battalion commander, made a calculated decision to intimidate the Iraqi officer with a show of force. An interrogation under way was going nowhere, Colonel West said in an interview, and he chose to take the matter into his own hands.

''This could get ugly,'' he told his soldiers. But, he said, he imposed limits: ''This man will not be injured and he will not have to be repaired. There will be no blood and no breakage of bones.''

Still, Colonel West wanted the Iraqi policeman, Yehiya Kadoori Hamoodi, to think ''this was going to be the end'' if he did not divulge what he knew. So Colonel West presided over what he considered a time-sensitive interrogation that grew steadily more abusive until he himself fired a pistol beside Mr. Hamoodi's head.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/27/world/struggle-for-iraq-interrogations-colonel-risked-his-career-menacing-detainee.html?pagewanted=all
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Allen West's Apparent Facebook Retreat... (Original Post) xocet Apr 2013 OP
He's crazy. He needs to get into therapy. nt Ilsa Apr 2013 #1
I don't see those words as a retreat. Shrike47 Apr 2013 #2
His posting had to be pulled from the Google Cache because he apparently deleted his own post... xocet Apr 2013 #4
Amazingly ... 1StrongBlackMan Apr 2013 #3

Shrike47

(6,913 posts)
2. I don't see those words as a retreat.
Mon Apr 22, 2013, 10:57 PM
Apr 2013

It's a threat in the middle of a lot of self-justification, typical Republican. Pile on the insults while saying 'don't provoke me.'

xocet

(3,870 posts)
4. His posting had to be pulled from the Google Cache because he apparently deleted his own post...
Tue Apr 23, 2013, 01:45 PM
Apr 2013

Here is Google's cache of http://www.facebook.com/ElectAllenWest/posts/10151857516861729 :

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:IqPoro107RMJ:www.facebook.com/ElectAllenWest/posts/10151857516861729+http://www.facebook.com/ElectAllenWest/posts/10151857516861729&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us .

The act of censoring oneself by deleting one's own post was meant to be the act of retreat. Apparently, he could not stand having his statement of threats out in public - maybe he wants to run for office again....

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