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."
Hang All the Members of the Liars’ Club? - The lying sharks swim and circle with impunity.
Friday, May 19, 2023
John Brenan, Dirty lowdown scumbag liar
Federal prosecutors last week announced the indictment of U.S.
Representative George Santos (R-N.Y.) on a host of charges, including
misuse of federal campaign funds and wire fraud, almost all of them
resulting from his pathological lies.
Certainly, Santos deserved the attention of prosecutors for lying on
federal documents and affidavits that may have helped him win a
congressional seat as well as personal lucre.
But if that’s the case, why haven’t federal prosecutors also gone
after Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.)? She clearly lied her way into a
Harvard Law School professorship and an erstwhile presidential
candidacy by claiming, in part, quite falsely she was a Native American,
supposedly Harvard’s first indigenous law professor.
Her Senate colleague, Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), flatly lied (he
said “misspoke”) about being a Vietnam War veteran. He never confessed
to “misspeaking” about his résumé until caught. Both senators,
apparently like Santos, gained political traction in their various
campaigns from such lies, but the two apparently never put them in
writing, or at least not as blatantly as did Santos.
New Federal Standards?
Are federal and states prosecutors now setting a new moral and legal
standard by criminalizing Santos’ lies? If true, congratulations—it is
long overdue. Now can we please extend the long arm of the law to reach far beyond a bit player like Santos?
Why not reboot with the really big liars? Their lies far more
undermined the integrity of our key agencies and indeed our national
security.
So let us start with John Brennan, the former CIA director. He lied on two separate occasions, in one case while under oath before the U.S. Senate. His untruths were not mere campaign finance fabrications. They involved falsely swearing
that the CIA did not spy on the computers of Senate staffers (“Let me
assure you the CIA was in no way spying on [the committee] or the
Senate.”).
He also lied
that U.S. drone missions in prior years had not killed innocent
bystanders (“There hasn’t been a single collateral death because of the
exceptional proficiency, precision of the capabilities that we’ve been
able to develop.”). Brennan, only when caught, admitted to both lies. But he faced zero
consequences and, in fact, was soon rewarded with an on-air analyst job
at MSNBC.
