Controversial Congressional Candidate Allen West Visits Israel

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Controversial Congressional Candidate Allen West Visits Israel
JERUSALEM - DECEMBER 02: Allen West, a former U.S. Army lieutenant colonel an a 2010 Republican candidate for the United States Congress in Florida's District 22, wrote this message in the guest book at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum on December 2, 2009 in Jerusalem, Israel. West, who resigned from the army in 2004 after being found guilty of assaulting an Iraqi police officer suspected of having information about planned attacks on American forces, is in Israel to attend a homeland security conference and meet with local law enforcement officials. (Photo by David Silverman/Getty Images)