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Spread the word! Email this one to all your friends. This man is a hero, and deserves our support.

And he really showed how to use a handgun to save lives! :D

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Exonerate Lt. Col. Allen B. West from Criminal Prosecution


By The Federalist
The Sierra Times
11. 5. 03

Sign a citizen petition on behalf of Lt. Col. Allen B. West, U.S. Army, who was indicted last week on criminal assault charges for the psychological intimidation tactic he used to acquire vital intelligence from a captured enemy combatant in Iraq -- intelligence that saved the lives of American soldiers facing imminent attack.

"[The enemy detainee] and his accomplices were a threat to our soldiers and the method was not right, but why should I...be forced into prison for protecting my men?," Col. West asks. Patriot Petitions poses the same question: How can we expect our frontline officers to fight wars the Bush administration calls "preemptive" if they are not given the latitude to respond -- preemptively -- to the asymmetric threats of terrorist aggressors? Would the deaths of American soldiers in the ambush Col. West thwarted at Saba al Boor have constituted a more acceptable result for the Army's judge advocate? Please sign the petition to exonerate Col. West from this grossly misguided criminal prosecution.

(Please forward this invitation to friends, family members, and fellow American Patriots. In order to force serious consideration of this issue within the White House and Congress, we must first collect as many petition signatures as possible.)

PatriotPetitions.US, the nation's leading public opinion advocate for U.S. national security, sovereignty, and Constitutional integrity, has released its newest campaign entreating the President, Congress and Department of Defense to Exonerate Lt. Col. Allen B. West from Criminal Prosecution. Please read this brief description of the campaign and register your opinion on this matter. Please let your voice be heard!

Please join fellow Patriots on the front lines in defense of our liberty and national sovereignty.

Go to -- http://PatriotPetitions.US/colwest

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Presidential pardon for Lt. Col. West? Spokesman queried about officer's allegedly illegal action in Iraq


Editor's note: Each week, WorldNetDaily White House correspondent Les Kinsolving asks the tough questions no one else will ask. And each week, WorldNetDaily brings you the transcripts of those dialogues with the president and his spokesman. If you'd like to suggest a question for the White House, submit it to WorldNetDaily's exclusive interactive forum MR. PRESIDENT!

By Les Kinsolving
WorldNetDaily.com
November 6, 2003

At today's White House news briefing, WND asked presidential press secretary Scott McClellan about the case of Lt. Col. Allen B. West, who is facing criminal charges for intimidating an Iraqi prisoner into divulging vital information about an impending attack on U.S. personnel.
WND: Scott, Lt. Col. Allen West is facing court martial and possible prison sentence for likely thwarting an ambush of American soldiers in Iraq by firing a pistol near an Iraqi prisoner's head, thereby coercing him to provide vital information. Col. West has received wide-ranging support from his military colleagues, and many American citizens consider him a hero, not a felon. Question: would – one of two – would the president consider –

McCLELLAN: We're going to do one today because the president is speaking very soon.

WND: Right. Would the president consider pardoning Col. West who, through his actions, probably saved –

McCLELLAN: Les, let me – Les. We've got to go. The president is getting ready to speak. Let me make it – let me respond to your – very quickly here. I am not in position to where I can comment on an ongoing investigation. You need to direct those questions to the appropriate authorities.
 
Someone help me out here ...

I must be missing something. The officer used "psychological intimidation" on a POW. Isn't that what you are suppose to do???
 
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