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<blockquote data-quote="moreluck" data-source="post: 926874" data-attributes="member: 1246"><p><strong><span style="color: black">Allen West on the Marines Incident: 'Shut Your Mouth, War Is Hell'</span></strong></p><p></p><p><span style="color: black">1:37 PM, Jan 13, 2012 • By <a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/author/daniel-halper" target="_blank">DANIEL HALPER</a></span></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="color: black">Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.), a former Army lieutenant colonel, sends THE WEEKLY STANDARD an email commenting on the <a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/silence-republican-candidates_616690.html" target="_blank">Marines' video</a>, and has given us permission to publish it.</span></p><p><span style="color: black"></span></p><p><span style="color: black">“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. Nei</span></p><p><span style="color: black">ther do I recall media outrage and condemnation of our Blackwater security contractors being killed, their bodies burned, and hung from a bridge in Fallujah.</span></p><p><span style="color: black">“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?</span></p><p><span style="color: black"></span></p><p><span style="color: black">“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.</span></p><p><span style="color: black"></span></p><p><span style="color: black">“As for everyone else, unless you have been shot at by the Taliban, shut your mouth, war is hell.”</span></p><p><span style="color: black">-- </span></p><p><span style="color: black"></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="moreluck, post: 926874, member: 1246"] [B][COLOR=black]Allen West on the Marines Incident: 'Shut Your Mouth, War Is Hell'[/COLOR][/B] [COLOR=black]1:37 PM, Jan 13, 2012 • By [URL="http://www.weeklystandard.com/author/daniel-halper"]DANIEL HALPER[/URL][/COLOR] [COLOR=black]Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.), a former Army lieutenant colonel, sends THE WEEKLY STANDARD an email commenting on the [URL="http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/silence-republican-candidates_616690.html"]Marines' video[/URL], and has given us permission to publish it. [/COLOR] [COLOR=black]“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. Nei ther do I recall media outrage and condemnation of our Blackwater security contractors being killed, their bodies burned, and hung from a bridge in Fallujah.[/COLOR] [COLOR=black]“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? [/COLOR] [COLOR=black]“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. [/COLOR] [COLOR=black]“As for everyone else, unless you have been shot at by the Taliban, shut your mouth, war is hell.”[/COLOR] [COLOR=black]-- [/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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