NC07: GOP-T Candidate Who Shot Two Unarmed Iraqis Likely to Be Elected to Congress

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http://www.pensitoreview.com/2010/10/28/nc07-gop-t-candidate-who-shot-two-unarmed-iraqis-60-times-likely-to-be-elected-to-congress-next-week/


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During the primaries, Nevada tea bagger U.S. Senate candidate Sharron Angle treasonously threatened “Second Amendment remedies” — in other words, armed insurrection against the United States — if the elections don’t go her way. Just last week, Rev. Stephen Broden, a tea bagger candidate for Congress in Texas’ 30th District proclaimed that armed revolution against the U.S. government was “not off the table,” if tea baggers fail to win control of Congress next Tuesday.

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Now it appears that voters in two House districts are prepared to elect tea bagger candidates who are war criminals — literally.

In Florida’s 22nd District, Democratic Rep. Ron Klein is in a tight rematch with Allen West, who was removed from command as a lieutenant colonel and forced to retire by the Army after he pleaded guilty to assaulting a prisoner in Iraq. West appears to have an edge over Klein.

But West’s war crimes, as atrocious as they are, pale in comparison with the GOP-T opponent of Democrat Rep. Mike McIntyre in North Carolina’s 7th District. Ilario Pantano, an ex-Marine, murdered two unarmed Iraqis in 2004:

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After emptying 60 rounds into the men, Pantano “signed” his work:

Over the corpses, he left a placard inscribed with the marine motto: “No better friend, No worse enemy.”

Six years later Pantano is on the verge of a stunning electoral victory that could send him to the US Congress in Washington. He is standing as Republican candidate in North Carolina’s 7th congressional district, which was last represented by his party in 1871.

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N.C. is trying for the meanest and cruelest of states

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1. kicking back to pg.1

this guy should not be in govt.

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2. Don't forget this part...

"Defence lawyers highlighted inconsistencies in the accounts of the prosecution witnesses and portrayed the main witness, who had been demoted by Pantano, as a soldier with an axe to grind. Forensic evidence was said to conflict with the prosecution case.

In the event, all charges against Pantano were dropped on grounds of insufficient evidence."