Rudyard Kipling"
“When you're left wounded on Afganistan's plains and
the women come out to cut up what remains, Just roll to your rifle
and blow out your brains,
And go to your God like a soldier”
General Douglas MacArthur"
“We are not retreating. We are advancing in another direction.”
“It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.” “Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
“The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and be the deepest wounds and scars of war.”
“May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't .” “The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
“Nobody ever defended, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.
“It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
The Soldier stood and faced God
Which must always come to pass
He hoped his shoes were shining
Just as bright as his brass
"Step forward you Soldier,
How shall I deal with you?
Have you always turned the other cheek?
To My Church have you been true?"
"No, Lord, I guess I ain't
Because those of us who carry guns
Can't always be a saint."
I've had to work on Sundays
And at times my talk was tough,
And sometimes I've been violent,
Because the world is awfully rough.
But, I never took a penny
That wasn't mine to keep.
Though I worked a lot of overtime
When the bills got just too steep,
The Soldier squared his shoulders and said
And I never passed a cry for help
Though at times I shook with fear,
And sometimes, God forgive me,
I've wept unmanly tears.
I know I don't deserve a place
Among the people here.
They never wanted me around
Except to calm their fears.
If you've a place for me here,
Lord, It needn't be so grand,
I never expected or had too much,
But if you don't, I'll understand."
There was silence all around the throne
Where the saints had often trod
As the Soldier waited quietly,
For the judgment of his God.
"Step forward now, you Soldier,
You've borne your burden well.
Walk peacefully on Heaven's streets,
You've done your time in Hell."
KUALA
LUMPUR, April 12 — Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad is
Malaysia’s single, greatest “enemy” bent on destroying the Bangsa
Malaysia and Vision 2020 nation-building pillars he created during his
22 years in office, his DAP arch-foe Lim Kit Siang said today. The DAP
advisor has been on the receiving end of the former prime
minister’s acid tongue ever since announcing his candidacy for the
Gelang Patah seat, and returned fire in a tit-for-tat attack that has
been raging for weeks in the run-up to Election 2013.
“Dr M in his post-PM decade has emerged as
the greatest enemy of his own Bangsa Malaysia concept in Vision 2020
and the single greatest threat to Malaysian nation building,” Lim said
in a statement, referring to his political nemesis by his popular
handle. He pointed to Dr Mahathir’s public praise last weekend of Malay
right-winger, Datuk Ibrahim Ali, and endorsement of the Perkasa
president as an “ideal” electoral candidate as one of two examples of
the ex-PM’s “baleful and baneful influence” to Malaysian nation
building. The second example he ticked was Dr Mahathir’s “racist” entry on the
latter’s chedet.cc blog yesterday, in which the 87-year-old had warned
of a “race confrontation” should Lim win Gelang Patah in the May 5
polls.
“Mahathir is just continuing the demonisation campaign by Umno down
through the decades painting the DAP as anti-Malay and anti-Islam when
these are totally untrue, false and downright lies,” he said.He said the DAP has championed the rights and interests of all
Malaysians regardless of their race and religion since its founding in
1966. As example, he listed his son and DAP secretary-general, Lim Guan
Eng, whom the elder Lim said was jailed for 18 months for sticking up
for the human rights and dignity of an underaged Malay girl, and asked
which Umno leader had “sacrificed” his political career in a similar
way.
The outgoing Ipoh Timor MP also said Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib
Razak feared taking action against his former mentor as “Mahathir has
proven that he could make and unmake Umno prime ministers”.“[The] last thing Najib wants is to follow in the footsteps of his
predecessor Tun Abdullah (Ahmad Badawi) of being toppled as Prime
Minister after failing to secure an acceptable winning majority in
Parliament in the 13GE,” Lim said.
He demanded Dr Mahathir show proof to support his allegations,
failing which the Umno veteran must apologise and recant his “lies and
falsehoods against me in his blog”.
