Posted on 02/06/2005 9:00:32 AM PST by ILL
Mattis told about 200 people at the San Diego Convention Center: "Actually, it's a lot of fun to fight, you know. It's a hell of a hoot. It's fun to shoot some people. I'll be right up front with you, I like brawling."
Do we mean to say they shouldn't use all the goodies they were given in order to kill the enemy? Hell no. They should kill as many of the enemy as possible. A verbal "faux pas" is not something that these generals are schooled at. If they were schooled as politicians they would have given us some sort of a hogwash story how heartbreaking it was to kill an Iraqi unit that set their convoy with road blasts. Sorry, but I just don't buy it. Rush to judgment has traditionally been easy for all of us and moralizing has never won a war. OK, he was a little too open or clumsy but he's not paid to be a speaker, his job was to command a unit in combat. If he's ever judged for anything that should be the scope of our interests. It is unacceptable to train these men to kill and later hold them liable for having killed (who cares if they enjoyed it or not). Such similar stupidities have befallen some other great American generals like William Tecumseh Sherman, George S Patton Jr. and Dwight D. Eisenhower. During their tenure they were severly criticized but after a few decades have elapsed we glorified their exploits. Let's not be that hasty and that hypocritical. We trained these people to do exactly what the General said he was doing, and we equipped them with plenty of toys to accomplish that goal (kill as many of the enemy as possible).
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Hmmmmmmmmmm
it IS fun to shoot scumbags...
does this pass the smell test?
Please use original titles.
Thanks.
I'm glad the general has a good measure of job satisfaction. What say you, stranger?
I wouldn't mind plugging a few of those wife beating child molesting animals myself.
Please elaborate.
I had a lot of fun blasting the enemy to smithereens in Nam with 5" precision naval gunfire.
Or how about that horrid couple that starved and beat their children. The 14 year old twin boys only weighed 38 pounds! Wouldn't mind shooting them...first the kneecaps, then the thighs......and so on!
The military is there to protect the country and preserve the peace. When that fails then they are trained to make the enemy pay the ultimate price for his country. Better them than us.
All in a days work for the USMC. People who are too squeamish to accept that reality don't deserve to be protected.
NO! What the hell does this Dr.'s post even mean? What is with the three pointers reference?
Some People Just Need Killing™.
I'll donate those rounds, personally, d.
Just a variant of "Some people need killing".
Nothing new here.
Or "Wanted, dead or alive".
And I believe that the only torture at aby Ghraib is letting the animals live instead of shooting them upon capture.
Anybody want to recomment counseling for me? Or force me to go take some? Lotsa luck!
Killing the enemy and destroying tactical and strategic targets. If you don't enjoy your work, why do it? Be gone troll.
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