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West: To protect my men ’I’d go through hell with a gasoline can’
2003-11-20
EFL. This speaks for itself:
Lt. Col. Allen West admitted during an emotional preliminary hearing today he used wrong methods to extract information from an Iraqi detainee but insisted American lives were at stake. Accused of threatening to kill the Iraqi if he didn’t disclose details of an imminent plot against U.S. soldiers, West was asked by his defense attorney if he would do it again.
Here it is:
"If it’s about the lives of my men and their safety, I’d go through hell with a gasoline can," he said, according to Reuters.
And then this...
"But that’s what’s going on out there in the streets here, and that’s how I feel about my boys," he told the hearing, held in Saddam Hussein’s hometown Tikrit. "There is not a person in this room I would not sacrifice my life for."
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