Fw: Allen West on the Marines Incident: 'Shut Your Mouth, War Is Hell'

["Don Greenlaw" <dgreenlaw@cox.net>]

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Semper fi,
Don Greenlaw
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Dave Hollenbeck
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Sent: Friday, January 13, 2012 12:08 PM
Subject: Allen West on the Marines Incident: 'Shut Your Mouth, War Is Hell'


http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/allen-west-marines-incident-shut-your-mouth-war-hell_616699.html


Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.), a former Army lieutenant colonel, sends THE WEEKLY 
STANDARD an email commenting on the Marines' video, and has given us 
permission to publish it.



“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. Neither do I recall media outrage and condemnation of our 
Blackwater security contractors being killed, their bodies burned, and hung 
from a bridge in Fallujah.

“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?

“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.

“As for everyone else, unless you have been shot at by the Taliban, shut 
your mouth, war is hell.