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To: Redcitizen

Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet. One of the rules Maj. Gen. James Mattis gave his Marines to live by in Iraq, as quoted in Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq (2006) by Thomas E. Ricks; as excerpted in Armed Forces Journal (August 2006).


25 posted on 02/05/2016 7:43:05 AM PST by Garvin (Age does not guarantee wisdom, and a college degree does not guarantee intelligence.)
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To: Garvin

The phrase long predates 2006.


30 posted on 02/05/2016 8:40:42 AM PST by ctdonath2 (History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the week or the timid. - Ike)
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