Thursday, March 10, 2011
Rep. Allen West released the following statement:
Congressman Allen West (FL-22) will introduce legislation next week
addressing the treatment of members of the Armed Services killed or
wounded in a terrorist attack.
The Global Combat Zone Recognition Act ensures that men and women
targeted specifically because they wear our nation’s uniform are treated
and recognized as the same as those who are attacked in active combat zones.
“The complexities of the 21st Century Battlefield require us to reassess
and redefine what a combat zone is,” West said. “Our men and women
in uniform today face a non-state, non-uniform belligerent who has no
regard for international borders or boundaries, to include our homeland.
Our fight against radical Islam is not just against the Taliban in Afghanistan
or al Qaida in Iraq, but against a global movement aimed at destroying
Western civilization as we know it.”
“From Fort Hood, Texas, to Little Rock, Arkansas, to Frankfurt, Germany,
radicals have targeted the men and women of our Armed Forces simply
because they were in uniform. Whether in the United States, Europe or the
Middle East, any soldier, sailor, airman or Marine killed or wounded in this
global conflict deserves nothing less than to be treated as if they were
fighting in Iraq or Afghanistan.”
Read more: http://www.thestatecolumn.com/state_politics/florida/rep-allen-west-introduces-the-global-combat-zone-recognition-act/#ixzz1GDbI3z00
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