Rudyard Kipling"
āWhen 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 soldierā
General Douglas MacArthur"
āWe are not retreating. We are advancing in another direction.ā
āIt is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.ā āOld soldiers never die; they just fade away.
āThe soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and be the deepest wounds and scars of war.ā
āMay God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't .ā āThe object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
āNobody ever defended, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.
āIt 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."
The Gitmo swindlers strike again - Let Them Starve By Michelle Malkin
Wednesday, July 10, 2013
World Crisis Alert: Guantanamo Bay
detainees donāt want to eat. Muslim rapper Yasiin āMos Defā Bey is so
worked up about their appetite plight that he videotaped himself being
force-fed to build support for closing Gitmo. Cry me a river. This latest round of hunger strikes isnāt an international human-rights tragedy. Itās another manipulative act of Jihad Theater.
Have you forgotten? Calculated Gitmo fabulism goes back to 2005, when Newsweek
fell for false rumors that U.S. soldiers āflushedā the Koran down a
toilet at the military detention facility in Cuba. Gullible media
reports of ādesecrationā provided a handy pretext for anti-American
riots across the Muslim world that resulted in nearly a dozen deaths.
Detainees later āfessed up that the conflagration stemmed from one of
their own dropping the Koran in prison and blaming a guard. Meanwhile, it was Gitmo residents themselves who were intentionally
tearing up Korans. One guard reported in May 2003: āDetainee residing in
cell [redacted] block tore his Quran into small pieces.ā Another
prisoner ādid intentionally destroy his Quran and throw [it] out of his
cell,ā according to a separate government report.
Al-Qaida
explicitly instructs its operatives to lie. A central jihad tenet,
taqiyya, encourages Islamists to use deceit and victim politics to wage
war. And while soft-on-terror sympathizers cast our military personnel
as ruthless war criminals, Gitmo detainees have violently attacked them
with everything from makeshift weapons and radios to disgusting
cocktails of blood, vomit, feces, urine, and sperm. To date, there
are no reports of detaineesā attacking our guards with the dozens of
Sony PlayStations, Nintendo DS consoles, art supplies, and DVDs that
detainees have been given over the years. The toys and crafts are off
limits!
Have you forgotten? The Gitmo stuntmen coordinated suicide
threats to drum up global outrage over Americaās decision to hold and
try them in our military system, instead of in our civilian court
system. These sabotage strikes were clear acts of asymmetric warfare by
cold-blooded terror operatives versed in exploitation of Western
sensibilities and civil liberties. Detainees considered suicides at the
facility acts of martyrdom and āa continuance of their jihad against the
U.S.,ā according to leaked documents. Military commanders discovered
that detainees were abusing confidential attorney-client privileges by
hiding notes and plots in special envelopes protected from the guardsā
reach.
Sound familiar? The same kind of subversive techniques were
used by convicted jihad legal helper Lynne Stewart, who smuggled coded
messages of Islamic violence on behalf of her client ā jailed terrorist
Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, mastermind of the 1993 WTC bombing and
spiritual instigator of the 1997 massacre of Western tourists in Luxor,
Egypt, and the 9/11 attacks. Also forgotten in all the knee-jerk
hoopla over the Gitmo food fight: just how much American officials have
bent over backward to accommodate militant detaineesā demands. In his
2005 tell-all book condemning Gitmo, turncoat army sergeant Erik Saar
inadvertently exposed our suicidal restraint and indulgence.
Each
detaineeās cell has a sink installed low to the ground for foot-washing
before prayer, Saar reported. Detainees get ātwo hot halal, or
religiously correct, mealsā a day in addition to an MRE (Meal, Ready to
Eat). Loudspeakers broadcast the Muslimsā call to prayer throughout the
day. Every detainee gets a prayer mat, cap, and Koran. Every cell has a
stenciled arrow pointing toward Mecca. And Gitmoās library is stocked
with jihadi books. āI was surprised that weād be making that concession
to the religious zealotry of the terrorists,ā Saar admitted.
Itās
no surprise that President Overseas Contingency Operation is bowing to
the cunning grievance-mongers. As former federal prosecutor Andrew
McCarthy explains:
āThe hunger strike is on because the jihadists figure Obama is ripe for
the taking.ā Faraway drones are A-OK, ābut he is petrified by the
prospect of performance-art jihad: the languishing martyrdom of
self-starving death cultists, whose rapt audience of Obama favorites ā
Brotherhood front groups and the Lawyer Left ā remind the administration
every long day that he promised to shut this theater down almost five
years ago.ā Donāt be distracted by Cirque du Jihad. Remember: The
Close Gitmo mob, led by the left-wing Center for Constitutional Rights,
lobbied for the release of Libyan Gitmo detainee Abu Sufian bin Qumu ā
now a fugitive terrorist suspected of plotting the bloody Benghazi
attack.
Remember: Obamaās terror-coddling lawyers have dragged their feet on prosecuting suspected U.S.S. Cole bombing suspect and former Persian Gulf operations chief for al-Qaeda Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, a Gitmo detainee since 2006. Remember:
As Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder spearhead renewed efforts to
close Gitmo, intelligence officials report that 27.9 percent of the 599
former detainees released from Guantanamo were either confirmed or
suspected of later engaging in jihadist attacks. Thatās a 2.9
percentage-point rise over the 25 percent aggregate recidivism rate
reported in 2010.
