[Poohbah]

Needless to say there's quite a difference between "threaten to kill" and "assault".

A credible threat to apply unlawful deadly force--by, for example, discharging a pistol past their head while physically restraining them, thus putting them in reasonable and immediate fear of losing life or limb--is, by definition, assault, and is punishable under Article 128 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice.

My point concerned the reporters who write pieces about this event ~ they all conclude that Col. West "threatened to kill", when he didn't do that at all!

Then you agree that Bill Clinton didn't have sexual relations with that woman, Monica Lewinsky.

[muawiyah]

Look here, in unloading his pistol Col. West used the Ba'athist's own beliefs against him. To the Ba'athist, if not you nor your friends in the news media, the threat was to pistol whip the guy ~ not to shoot him!