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."
There
was doubt, however, as to whether the Pasir Mas MP was also channeling
for BN chief Najib Abdul Razak, putative Umno reformer and liberal whose
measures in that mode are believed to have been opposed by Umno
hardliners and has drawn flak from Perkasa.
Such a battle's likely upshot: Ibrahim (left)
would lose the seat to PAS under whose banner the maverick politician
had campaigned and won the last election by a comfortable 8,000-plus
vote majority.
To
PAS it was better to have Ibrahim - who has always had his share of
hardcore support in a constituency from which he hails - as the winner
than to allow Umno the chance of gaining ground in Kelantan in a general
election in which the latter nurtured hopes of ousting PAS, after
coming close to doing so at the previous election in 2004.
An Ibrahim defeat, sustained in his own backyard, would seriously undermine his position as a loudhailer for Malay rights.
Predictably,
revelations emanating from the inquiry have cast grave doubt on
Mahathir's denial of responsibility for the fraudulent grant of
citizenship to Sabah's illegals, an action that savours of treason,
particularly in the wake of the intrusion at Lahad Datu of armed men
from the littoral islands of the Philippines.
