For
those of you who don't know, Col. Allen West is running for U.S.
Congressman Ron Klein's seat in Florida . Attached is his article
regarding the shootings at Ft. Hood , Texas .
Please take a
few minutes to read what he wrote.
“Tragedy at Ft Hood”
Lieutenant Colonel Allen B West (US
Army, Ret)
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’s 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 to find a victim, 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 healthcare 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 “Kaffirs” 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 Wahabbist
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)