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."
Strangely, the media have suddenly taken an intense interest in the case of pedophile and major Democratic donor Jeffrey Epstein.
In 2005, the Palm Beach police were told by the mother of a young girl in West Palm Beach that her daughter had been brought to the Democratic donor’s mansion and asked to have sex with him for money. This kicked off an intensive, one-year undercover investigation.
Palm Beach Police Chief Michael Reiter exploded in rage. (Meanwhile,
Epstein claimed to be the victim of an anti-Semitic conspiracy on Palm
Beach.) Chief Reiter wrote an open letter to Krischer asking the
Democrat to remove himself from the case. Then he turned to the Bush
administration to seek justice against a Democratic donor/accused child
rapist.
As stories go, a child sex case involving a Palm Beach billionaire
was pretty big. It was covered in the British press, in Florida media,
at The New York Post, and at Fox News. Bill O’Reilly led with the story on his Fox News show. But CNN and MSNBC did not breathe a word about a Democratic prosecutor refusing to hold a Democratic child rapist accountable. Epstein had given more than $145,000 to Democratic candidates and
causes, including Bill Clinton, John Kerry, Hillary Clinton, and Chuck
Schumer.
Epstein was finally required to plead guilty to two state felony
charges, accept a sentence of two years in prison, register as a sex
offender, and pay restitution to his victims. Still no coverage by MSNBC or CNN. When Cassell and Edwards filed their case, they included the claims of
various Epstein victims, who reported that the men at “Orgy Island,”
where underage girls were being used as “sex slaves,” included Bill
Clinton, Alan Dershowitz, and Prince Andrew.
Only one show on MSNBC, “All In With Chris Hayes,” so much as
acknowledged the bombshell case, also without letting on that Clinton
had been named as a frequent Epstein guest by the child victims. But recently, the very news outlets that spiked any news about this
case for the past 13 years are suddenly hot on the trail of Jeffrey
Epstein. Why the newfound sense of decency?
The answer is: Because they found a Trump connection. There’s a 2002
quote from Donald Trump saying nice things about Epstein and
photographic proof that Epstein was one of the hundreds of thousands of
people who have been to Mar-a-Lago. (There are rumors he has also been
to the Grand Canyon and the Empire State Building.) This is how the modern American media work: I’ll tell the same story that we’ve been frantically suppressing for a decade, connect it to Trump — and win a Pulitzer Prize! Here is MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell describing Epstein a few weeks ago in a single segment:
