Posted on 03/30/2013 9:33:06 AM PDT by Windflier
Gen. James Mattis, known to his troops as “Mad Dog Mattis,” is retiring after 41 years of military service.
The Marine Corps Times is calling Mattis the “most revered Marine in a generation.”
Mattis has been commander of the United States Central Command since 2010 and led the 1st Marine Division into Iraq in 2003.
According to reports, President Barack Obama decided to force the Marine Corps legend out early because he rubbed civilian officials the wrong way, and forced them to answer tough questions regarding Iran.
Mattis was an inspirational leader of men and his powerful words will go down in history.
Here are some of the best words that the “Mad Dog” has had to offer:
1. “I don’t lose any sleep at night over the potential for failure. I cannot even spell the word.”
2. “The first time you blow someone away is not an insignificant event. That said, there are some assholes in the world that just need to be shot.”
3. “I come in peace. I didn’t bring artillery. But I’m pleading with you, with tears in my eyes: If you fuck with me, I’ll kill you all.”
4. “Find the enemy that wants to end this experiment (in American democracy) and kill every one of them until they’re so sick of the killing that they leave us and our freedoms intact.”
5. “Marines don’t know how to spell the word defeat.”
6. “Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet.”
7. “The most important six inches on the battlefield is between your ears.”
8. “You are part of the world’s most feared and trusted force. Engage your brain before you engage your weapon.”
9. “There are hunters and there are victims. By your discipline, cunning, obedience and alertness, you will decide if you are a hunter or a victim.”
10. “No war is over until the enemy says it’s over. We may think it over, we may declare it over, but in fact, the enemy gets a vote.”
There's no ammo on the civilian market now, is there?
And you seriously think that's an accident?
That is how you win in war.
For the most part, I liked General Mattis, but in the end, all of our military leadership failed us in this poorly run “Global War on Terror”. We did not fight the war to win it.
When we went from a**-kickers to peace makers, we lost our way. Never again. If we have to go to war in the future, I will be opposed to it unless they assure the public that we will fight the war for total victory, minimizing our losses by using our entire arsenal without mercy until all resistance stops. Otherwise, we should just stay home.
I believe it’s a stretch to go from the government hording ammo to martial law or extermination of citizens. We’ll find out in the near future if there is malicious intent. If you’re right, we’ll have much bigger problems then us disagreeing on an internet forum.
It was not our military leadership that failed us; it was the political leadership that wrote the rules of engagement that failed us.
It was both. We know that our political leadership is spineless, but I expected more from officers. Our military leadership did not resign when forced to fight the war this way. They also failed us in DADT, women in combat, prosecutions of soldiers in Haditha and other incidents. I have nothing but praise for our enlisted forces, company and field grade officers. But almost all of our Generals were just like our politicians, spineless.
And those 2700 armored vehicles for Ubama's "civilian army," AKA the Department of Homeland Security?
I agree that what has been going on is alarming, specifically the MRAPs if true. We are living in a very low level police state, but things have clearly become worse in the decade or two.(DHS and TSA)
That said, the video has a lot of falsehoods and anorexic conclusions.
1. Comparing someone who believes what I do to Holocaust deniers.
2. That Obama has allowed drones to kill Americans on American soil.
3. The FBI has staged every terrorist attack.
4. Poison in the crops
5. Mercury in the vaccines to poison us.
Those are undeniable.
We have a feral government that is gearing up for a war on US soil.
Who do you think they'll be fighting this war against?
It could be as simple as them justifying their budgets, or it could be as bad as you say. Like I said, we’ll find out. I hope you are wrong, and not for the sake of me winning an internet disagreement.
I’m prepared as I need to/can be. I don’t see the sense in worrying, though I will be paying close attention.
We live in the era of TARP and Solyndra.
Nobody in the feral government has to justify anything to anybody.
Just think what that ONE “FORMER MILITARY/ FORMER POLICE OFFICER “ did to ALL of the LEA in california and also FBI ,etc.when they were trying to find him..he ended up in a wooded cabin not far from them..forgot his name.
One guy, a few weapons, no car and he led them all around —hundreds of officers— for days!Hmmmm.
Chris Dorner(sp?)
I guess I can’t argue that.
I’d prefer that you are right and I am wrong, but the character of the usurper in the White House tells me otherwise.
I certainly do not trust Obama, I just don’t see that many people would go along with those plans.
My opinions change all the time on this subject. One day optimistic, the next negative.
He has packed the entire government with Marxist Alinskyites.
The DC area is growing explosively with feral government employees, all of them of the same persuasion.
Unfortunately, the enemy that wants to end our experiment in democracy is OBAMA!
My son has just joined the Marines; he starts boot camp around Labor Day. I don’t know what to think about it, really.
I wondered if the government purchase of all that ammo is causing the shortage/price inflation we're seeing, so I googled some numbers and applied my calculator. About 6 Billion rounds are made in the US alone (the world number is 14 Billion) annually. The government is purchasing about 1.2 Billion over five years, or 240 Million per year. That means the government is buying about 4% of the supply. (Less actually because we import a lot.)
That's hardly "cornering the market." But it's still worrisome in the context of their making themselves enemies of the rest of us.
Where is all the ammo going? To the millions of people who know that if Obama and the rest of the Rats get their way we won't have any at all. What we are seeing right now is the granddaddy of all market distortions, courtesy of the US Government. Once the saturation level is reached (and it will be reached), the supply and prices will settle down.
I'm only optimistic about the fact that we'll win the war, whenever it comes. Everything else is pretty much off the table.
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