“If it's about the lives of my men and their safety, I'd go through hell with a gasoline can.”

— Allen West (politician)

At his 2004 hearing, regarding his conduct of an interrogation. [Department of the Army, 43rd Military Police Detachment (CID)(FWD), 10th Military Police Battalion, United States Army Criminal Investigation Command, Memorandum, Subject: CID Report Of Investigation – Final – 0152-03-CID469-60212-5C1A/5C2/5T1, February 6, 2004, http://www.aclu.org/files/projects/foiasearch/pdf/DODDOACID000105.pdf, September 28, 2010]
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American politician; retired United States Army officer 1961

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