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."
Vlad Tepes : Many years ago, STRATFOR published an essay on the Nixon impeachment
that was subtly different than this. but in its chief points it was the
same.
There was no reason why two journeymen reporters would have been
handed this story, and it was all pre-written and pre-digested for them
on the condition that they carried it from the parking lot where they
met Deep Throat, the alias for an unhappy FBI guy that was passed over
for promotion by Nixon, to the editor and it all had to be published
when and how they were told.
They were not journalists. They were not
even FEDEX delivery people as the distance was shorter and they only had
one pickup and one drop-off point. The facts that matter match the
STRATFOR report on this which came out shortly after the death of the
FBI man who was “Deep Throat” in this operation.
The lead man on the
Watergate Break in was IIRC, FBI G-man, G. Gordon Liddy. He wrote a book
about it called, “Will” which was a fun read. After he got out of jail
for the Watergate break-in, he spent the rest of his life debating acid
guru, Timothy Leary on the college circuit. Hopefully there are videos
out there of some of those.
They are probably a lot of fun. All of this
is from memory at the moment, so IIRC, Liddy also was at one point
ordered to raid the compound/home of Leary when he was a college prof
teaching students.
“Turn on, tune in, drop out”. Leary himself did an
awful lot of LSD
