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."
Lim Kit Siang - "PM8 - a closet reformer who never came out of the closet?"
Saturday, July 30, 2022
Berani Kerana Benar : Asshar you need to change your video-blog name to "Fart of the Matter" and this praise of Moo will be appropriate to kickstart your video-blog under this new caption.
Malaysiakini : MP SPEAKS | House speaker Azhar
Azizan Harun took everyone by surprise when at the launch of the book,
‘Muhyiddin Yassin: Leading a Nation in Unprecedented Crisis’ by Abdul
Mutalib Razak, he described the country’s eighth prime minister as a
“reformist” who “many choose to overlook, for whatever reason they may
have”.
Was Muhyiddin a closet reformer but who never came out of the closet?Azhar is dead wrong when he said Muhyiddin “never asked for the job” of prime minister.
I
should know because Muhyiddin asked me for DAP support to be prime
minister way back in July 2016 – in a cloak-and-dagger meeting at the Le
Meridien Hotel in Kuala Lumpur - but I declined to do so as the DAP was
committed to Anwar Ibrahim as the prime minister candidate.
Muhyiddin will forever be remembered for five failures:
1. The
infamous Sheraton Move conspiracy which stole the people’s mandate in
the 14th General Election and toppled the Pakatan Harapan government.
2.
His illegal and unconstitutional declaration of six-month emergency and
his earlier and later failures to impose emergency rule.
3. The
beginning of more than two years of Covid-19 pandemic, where Malaysia
had the worst health minister in the world and Malaysia plunged from a
country with a good record to a country with one of the worst records in
the world in fighting the Covid-19 pandemic.
4. His failure to Malaysianise his political thinking to graduate from a ‘Malay first’ to a ‘Malaysian first’ political leader.
5. The largest most bloated cabinet of 32 ministers, 38 deputy ministers and four special envoys with ministerial rank.
But
Muhyiddin’s political life which culminated in his becoming prime
minister but with the shortest term of 17 months had one saving factor –
his uncompromising position against the 1MDB scandal, for which he was
dismissed as deputy prime minister in July 2015 and later sacked from
Umno in June 2016 by Najib Abdul Razak.
