At Ease, Gen Mattis

http://www.techcentralstation.com/020505A.html | 02/05/2005 | Ralph Kinney Bennett

[Age of Reason]

I am not impressed.

[jocon307]

"They are his blunt affirmation that he has fought in a war worth fighting against an uncivilized enemy that deserves to be destroyed."

Amen! If the left had its way we'd have an army of women and homsexuals doing lunchroom and redecorating duty around the world. I wonder how many hours we'd last after that.

[cajungirl]

Why not?

[Roccus]

I'm just thankful that there are gallant people like the General to fight the battle that I'm unable to.

[cajungirl]

But it also needs leaders who are fighters. Those who will kick down the door. Those who will get the job done. As we have observed here before, all the niceties of democracy and civilization depend from time to time on a few men who will go down dark streets and do uncivilized and possibly undemocratic things we would rather not think about, let alone talk about Couldn't be better said, I admire that in a soldier.

[sdpatriot]

thank you Ralph Kinney Bennett!

and thank God for men like Gen Mattis! what a Marine!

[RedEyeJack]

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
George Orwell

Never have these words been truer than in the case of General Mattis...

[Roccus]

With the type of press our forces have received recently, Jack Nicholson's soliloquy keeps rattlin' around in my head. I know it was Hollywood, but it was spot on.

[muawiyah]

General Mattis' critics are the sort of people who get vicarious pleasure out of knowing some Afghan thug has been slapping around women for 5 years!

[OldFriend]

Amen!

[river rat]

"I am not impressed"..

Have you asked if anyone gives a $hit if you're impressed?

Semper Fi

[Age of Reason]

Actually, it's quite fun to fight'em, you know. It's a hell of a hoot. It's fun to shoot some people.

Doesn't sound right.

Any WW II Vets feel the same way? Was WWII fun?

[SpyGuy]

As I wrote before in another thread on this topic:

I wouldn't have said that it's "fun" to shoot people. What I would have said was, "I get a great deal of SATISFACTION from shooting some people."

Nevertheless, as a former US Naval Officer, I salute General Mattis, and would be proud to serve under his command.

[mdittmar]

Dayton Marine Laid To Rest

A U.S. marine killed in Iraq is laid to rest this weekend.

26 year-old Marine Corporal Richard Gilbert Junior died in a helicopter crash two weeks ago.

30 other marines were also killed. The crash remains under investigation.

His mother says her son joined the Marines after the September 11, 2001 attacks.

Family and friends gathered for a viewing Friday night.

The family is from Dayton.

Funeral services were held at the Marker and Heller funeral home, in Huber Heights.

Honor Them,Always!

[mdittmar]

Suck eggs.

[muawiyah]

I know some WWII vets whose worst life experience was saving some SS camp guards from their surviving Jewish prisoners.

One would imagine that lasted about 10 minutes and then they gave up, but I didn't ask.

[xm177e2]

Was WWII fun?

Being in trenches, soaking rain, artillery coming down on ya, time in the field hospitals, on patrol... probably not. But what about just one specific part of war: shooting people. You should ask WWII vets if shooting Axis soldiers was fun. Most of them would say no, but I'll bet there's a few who enjoyed it.

[cyborg]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1336387/posts

[cajungirl]

I think when one is winning and feels strongly and is a Warrior,,,it is fun as hell and they don't want to do anything else.

The ordinary soldier, probably not.

He used a poor choice of words but the man is not a literary figure or scholar. He is a warrior and I will cut him some slack.