Here we go..Allen West GOP Candidate: "Terrorists are infiltrating military"

[Thickasabrick]

Hours after 13 soldiers were shot to death in a massacre at Fort Hood, a Republican candidate for Congress (and former Fort Hood commander) is warning that terrorists are infiltrating the military and brainwashing U.S. soldiers.

Lt. Col. Allen West (Ret), who is running for Congress in Florida's 22nd District, released a statement on Friday morning that heavily insinuated that Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan -- the soldier responsible for the Fort Hood killings -- was a Muslim extremist.

"This enemy preys on downtrodden soldiers and teaches them extremism will lift them up," West said, in a statement titled "Terrorists Are infiltrating Military". "Our soldiers are being brainwashed."

A veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan, West ran and lost a race for the 22nd Districts House seat in 2008. In 2003, he was forced to resign from the army, just shy of 20 years of service, after soldiers under his supervision (and he himself) were accused of assaulting an Iraqi detainee. West claimed his actions (which included firing a 9mm pistol close to the man's head) helped prevent a planned ambush by Iraqi insurgents.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/06/allen-west-gop-candidate_n_348248.html

I'm sure this asshole is feeling justified in torturing people now. :(

[Tom Rinaldo]

1. That's old news. No one talks about Timothy McVeigh anymore n/t

[Democracyinkind]

2. But the christian fundies and wannabe Nazis are good for our armed services...

I don't think the army is in danger of being infiltrated by jihadists... Other fundies seem the more obvious threat...

[sinkingfeeling]

3. Yes, the SPLC has been saying this for a decade. Plenty of white supremacists and neo-Nazis have bee...

enlisting and has asked the military to investigate.

http://www.splcenter.org/news/item.jsp?aid=384

[OHdem10]

4. A Serious Media would call out and question the fitness for office

of a person spreading such lunacy.

[Tippy]

5. And which party tell the public to get close enough to see the whites of their eyes

[KharmaTrain]

6. I Just Saw A Real Shitstain On CSPAN...

rushpublican congresscritter paying "respect" to those who lost their lives as Ft. Hood. He kept referring to OUR God...didn't take much to read between those lines. I hope someone picks this up and skewers this oxygen thief. I thought they all believed in the same god...

[Barack_America]

7. Yeah buddy, and you were one of them. nt

[Bitwit1234]

8. Wel gee why isn't he talking about

terrorist in our government and media...you know...Bachman, Palin, Boehner, McConnell, Kyl, Cantor and most of all people like rush, beck, malken, drudge and fox TV.