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."
Malaysiakini : MP SPEAKS | For the first time,
the Umno president Ahmad Zahid Hamidi’s desperate hurry for the
dissolution of Parliament for the holding of an immediate 15th general
election seems to be close at hand and the possibility of Parliament
being dissolved after Oct 7, after the 2023 Budget has been presented to
the Dewan Rakyat, cannot be ruled out.
The example of Parliament
being dissolved after the Budget was presented but before it was passed
by both Houses of Parliament and given the Royal Assent had happened
once before in 1999, but I had said that Prime Minister Ismail Sabri
Yaakob should not be following this wrong and bad example, which
tantamounts to the prime minister misusing his powers.
On Friday,
Oct 29, 1999, the 2000 Budget was presented to the Dewan Rakyat by the
then finance minister Daim Zainuddin, but before the 2000 Budget was
passed, Parliament was dissolved while debating the 2000 Budget in
mid-stream on Nov 10, 1999.
I remember the day of the dissolution
of Parliament in 1999. It was a Tuesday and the sixth day of the debate
on the 2000 Budget, but Members of Parliament were not interested in the
2000 Budget as words had gone around that Parliament was to be
dissolved on that day.
I remember asking the then deputy speaker who was presiding before
the Dewan Rakyat adjourned for lunch on Nov 10, 1999, whether Parliament
would be dissolved that day. The deputy speaker, who is now the Yang
di-Pertua of Sabah, said he did not know.
When
Dewan Rakyat resumed after lunch at 2.30pm, the speaker of the House
announced that he had been informed that Parliament had been dissolved
by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong, and the debate on the 2000 Budget ended
abruptly for the holding of Malaysia’s 10th general election. The same
budget for the year 2000 was presented after the 1999 general election.
The
1999 example of the dissolution of Parliament is a wrong and bad
example, where the budget was presented to Parliament and Parliament was
not allowed to debate and pass the budget but was dissolved for the
holding of a general election.
Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob
It
is a misuse of prime ministerial power, and if Ismail Sabri asks the
Yang di-Pertuan Agong to dissolve Parliament after Oct 7, the Yang
di-Pertuan Agong should advise the prime minister to let Parliament
debate and pass the 2023 Budget - unless a no-confidence motion against
the prime minister is adopted by the Dewan Rakyat.
