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."
The scum bags!! Turkey gloats over ECHR Armenian genocide ruling
Friday, December 20, 2013
Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu. The Turkish Foreign Ministry has applauded the Dec. 18 ruling of the
European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), which stated that denying that
the mass killing of Armenians in Ottoman Turkey in 1915 was genocide was
not a criminal offence.
“The ECHR ruling is a milestone regarding the preservation of freedom
of expression, which is a basic element of societies attached to the
principle of freedom, democracy and the rule of law,” a written statement from the Foreign Ministry said on Dec. 18. The ruling is a significant warning against attempts to enforce a
unilateral view of history through legal means, and also against the
politicization of law and history, the statement added. A Swiss court
had fined the leader of the leftist Turkish Workers’ Party (İP), Doğu
Perinçek, for having branded talk of an Armenian genocide “an
international lie” during a 2007 lecture tour in Switzerland. However,
the ECHR ruled on Dec. 18 that a Swiss law against genocide denial
violated the principle of freedom of expression. The ruling has implications for other European states, such as France,
which have sought to criminalize the refusal to apply the term
“genocide” to
the massacres of Armenians during the breakup of the Ottoman Empire. With a record number of journalists in jail at the moment--
Turkey actually tops the list for the entire world--they are fine ones to talk about freedom of speech.
