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Black XVII: "Hussein's Bombed!!"
The MudCave ^ | 3 March 2003 (3/3/03) | Mudboy Slim

Posted on 03/03/2003 3:58:28 AM PST by Mudboy Slim

"Hussein' BOMBED!!"
(To be sung to Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Tuesday's Gone")

(CM and the BigMan on guitar)

Rain bombs down...It's JusticeTime!!
Won't YOU...FReep with me, folks, and pray!!
Can't you feel? Don't you know?...RATS Want the World!!
Means I'm...FReepin' fer what I KNOW is RIGHT!! LORD, Yeah!!
Hussein's BOMBED...now he's MIST!!
Slick Willie's Gone...Dubyuh's IT!!! Let's WIN!!

(Conservativemusician, The BigMan, and DiscoDave on guitar)

Yes, I think, I KNOW...oh, where we're going...
Folks just want to be left alone!!
Well, now Hussein's DEAD...We'll Smite Again!!
And I'm FReepin' 'til Lib'rals, GO HOME!!

(chorus)
Hussein's Bombed...now he's Mist.
Chirac's Gone!! Lost his HEAD!!
Clinton's Gone!! Dubyuh's IT!!
Thy Lib'ral SCUM Shall Be Dissed!!

(Mudboy ticklin' the ivories...FiremanJohn on mandolin...take it away, CM!!)

Troops, Roll On!! Many miles from yer home,
FReep!! Put on yer blue facepaint!!
Patriots, you see, folks gotsta be free!!
Folks, somehow Right's got to carry on. LORD, Yeah!!

Hussein's Bombed...Now he's mist.
Chirac's's Gone...won't be missed.
Clinton's Gone...Dubyuh's IT!!
Tyranny's Done...Right Vanguished IT!!

Mid...MUD


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Miscellaneous; Political Humor/Cartoons; US: Kansas; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: death; hussein; liberateirag; saddam
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To: Cicero; Taxman; Howlin; PhiKapMom; AuntB; knighthawk; Xthe17th; Liz; Grampa Dave
"Kofi Annan On The Take?! Yep...the United Nations is CORRUPT!!"

"Who is Saddam Hussein's biggest business partner?

The United Nations. The same U.N. whose secretary-general, Kofi Annan, stands as one of the chief ditherers over removing Saddam. Here are the ingredients of a conflict of interest. Under the U.N.'s Office of the Iraq Program, which supervises the six-year-old Oil-for-Food Program, the U.N. has had a hand in the sale of more than $55 billion worth of Iraqi oil. Iraq ships oil out to U.N.-approved buyers under the terms of the sanctions agreement. The U.N. vets the inflow of "humanitarian" imports into Iraq. The process is simple. Iraq contracts to import goods, and the U.N. gives the outside vendors cash collected from the oil sales. The U.N. has approved about $34 billion in such deals so far. The money it hasn't yet doled out--at least $21 billion--sits in U.N.-administered bank accounts. U.N. officials refuse to divulge much information about these accounts--not even the countries in which they're held. Measured in dollars, this is by far the U.N.'s largest program. The sums involved are large enough--and their handling has been perverse enough--for this program to deserve more attention than it has so far received.

"Conceived in 1995 as a way to deliver humanitarian aid despite sanctions against Iraq, Oil-for-Food has matured into an unholy union between Saddam Hussein, with his command economy, and the U.N., with its big, buck-passing bureaucracy. By now, the two are effectively partners in what might just as well be called the Oil-for-U.N.-Jobs program. Even with its weapons inspectors barred from the country, the U.N. by now has 10 agencies employing 900 international staffers and 3,000 Iraqi nationals inside Iraq to administer the program, plus another 120 or so in New York. Combining Iraq's oil exports and aid imports, they oversee a flow of funds averaging about $15 billion a year, more than five times the U.N.'s core annual budget. Even assuming the utmost integrity by the U.N. staff, it is worth asking whether Mr. Annan and his entourage might by now have a stake in the status quo. In which case, listening to Mr. Annan's views on Iraq makes about as much sense as once upon a time heeding Arthur Andersen's pronouncements on Enron.

"Making this picture all the more Enron-like is the extent to which Mr. Annan and his crew have winked at Iraq's gross violations of U.N. agreements, and not only on weapons inspections. The U.N. sanctions on Iraqi oil sales were meant to stop Saddam from diverting oil revenues to his own uses. Instead, they provide a facde of control that is dangerously misleading. Saddam has been getting around the sanctions via surcharge-kickback deals and flat-out smuggling, to the tune of $3 billion a year, according to the dossier released yesterday by Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair."

No wonder SlickWillie's so hot to trot to be United Nations Secretary-General...MUD

741 posted on 03/11/2003 8:10:21 PM PST by Mudboy Slim (The A.N.S.W.E.R., my FRiends..."DemonRATS LOATHE EqualJustice Fer ALL!!")
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To: sultan88; putupon; hchutch
"When the Second World War
Came to an end
We forgave the Germans
And we were FRiends
Though they murdered six million
In the ovens they fried
The Germans now too
Have God on their side."

Now the DemonRATS LOATHE the Jews and look to Germany as their Savior...what Absolute IGNORANCE of Reality!!!

SHEEEEESH...MUD

742 posted on 03/11/2003 8:15:15 PM PST by Mudboy Slim (The A.N.S.W.E.R., my FRiends..."DemonRATS LOATHE EqualJustice Fer ALL!!")
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To: Happygal; FBD; sultan88; conservativemusician; Landru; jla; dead; KLT; Doctor Raoul
"Dancin' With Soddom!!"
(To be sung to TheBOSS's "Dancin' In the Dark!!")

I'm fed up ev'ry evening...
Networks ain't got nothin' fer me!!
We wake up ev'ry morning...
Can't go to bed...FReepin' Fer the FRee!!
Nation's Gotta Git Inspired!!
Man I'm just tired and bored with myself
Hey there, FReepers, we could use just a little help!!

You can't start a fire
You can't start a fire without a spark
FReedom Inspires!!
DemonRATS're just Dancin' with Soddom!!

JUSTICE keeps getting nearer...
RushLimbaugh's on and I'm groooovin' 'round the Cave!!
Dru checks his look in the mirror...
We wanna change tax codes...WE Care!! WE Save!!
Folks, Slick ain't going nowhere!!
Slick's just waiting to git dumped like $#!+!!
We're bound to GitJustice sometime...
FReepers, I just know that We're IT!!

You can't start a fire
You can't start a fire without a spark
FReepers, Left's Tired...
EvilMen are just Dancing With Soddom!!

We sit around getting Bolder...
There's a yoke here called "Fear"...'tis Anti-Liberty!!
We'll Take This World ON Our Shoulders...
Come on, Dubyuh, Let's Make Folks FRee!!

Stay on the FReeps of this town
and they'll be carving you up alright
They say you gotta stay hungry
hey baby I'm just about starving tonight
I'm dying for some action
I'm sick of sitting 'round here trying to write this book
I need a love reaction
come on now baby gimme just one look

You can't start a fire sitting 'round crying over a broken heart
Yes...MUD's fer Hire!!
DemonRATS're just Dancing With Soddom!!
Left can't start the fire worrying about their Lib'ralWorld falling apart!!
Mudboy's fer Hire!!
FReepers, we are just Dancing ON Soddom!!
FReepers, we are just dancing in the dark
Even if we're just dancing in the dark
Even if we're just dancing in the dark
Hey baby

Mid...MUD

743 posted on 03/11/2003 9:05:19 PM PST by Mudboy Slim (The A.N.S.W.E.R., my FRiends..."DemonRATS LOATHE EqualJustice Fer ALL!!")
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To: Mudboy Slim
Putting the right words in the right places as you are doing...and I can see how the BOSS ROCKS.
744 posted on 03/11/2003 9:09:57 PM PST by sultan88 (I am Pro Choice on Guns - This year my choice is a Beretta)
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To: The Ghost of Richard Nixon
"If I were President Bush, I would order US Special Ops into Iraq to blow up their oil fields -- and then attribute it to Saddam's own bombs going off "inadvertently"."

Nawww, we've already got Special OPS deep within Iraq, tracking Soddom's every move since being with Dan Rather the other day, so that the minute we announce the capture of Osama bin Laden, we announce that Soddom Hussein's been killed by a sniper and the Iraqi National Guard will throw down its arms in gratitude towards America, Iraq's Liberator!!

You need to borrow my rose-colored glasses, dude...MUD

87 posted on 03/12/2003 12:33 AM EST by Mudboy Slim

Welcome to the Black, TrickyDick...MUD

745 posted on 03/11/2003 9:36:05 PM PST by Mudboy Slim (The A.N.S.W.E.R., my FRiends..."DemonRATS LOATHE EqualJustice Fer ALL!!")
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To: sultan88
Thunder Road, Lost in the Flood, Growing Up, Rosalita...Springsteen's a TreasureTrove of awesome songs to FReep, IMHO...MUD
746 posted on 03/11/2003 9:38:10 PM PST by Mudboy Slim (The A.N.S.W.E.R., my FRiends..."DemonRATS LOATHE EqualJustice Fer ALL!!")
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To: sultan88
I'm hittin' the hay...CHOW!!!

MUD

747 posted on 03/11/2003 9:49:01 PM PST by Mudboy Slim (The A.N.S.W.E.R., my FRiends..."DemonRATS LOATHE EqualJustice Fer ALL!!")
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To: sultan88
I offer this testimony:


Springstreet supports dem candidates from NJ. Ahem, Torricelli, and Frank ( the crypt keeper) Lousenberg. He also supported Mud's favorite POTUS, Bill Clinton, pardon me while I retch. He can't play guitar and sings like a frog ( these days anyway).

Worst of all, he glamorizes New Jersey as if it were cool or something. Sheesh.

Lest we forget, he forbade Ronald Reagan from using Born in the USA as a campaign theme song.
748 posted on 03/12/2003 4:17:40 AM PST by conservativemusician
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To: conservativemusician
SHEEEEESH, some folks just can't figger out when they been whupped, I reckon...MUD

BTW...TheBoss ROCKS!!

749 posted on 03/12/2003 4:32:30 AM PST by Mudboy Slim (The A.N.S.W.E.R., my FRiends..."DemonRATS LOATHE EqualJustice Fer ALL!!")
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To: Mudboy Slim
Whupped?


How so?
750 posted on 03/12/2003 4:37:22 AM PST by conservativemusician
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To: conservativemusician
Remember how we agreed that one guy can ruin a team for you?

I had that guy re Springsteen. A friend of mine when I was a kid WORSHIPPED Springsteen. Drove me crazy to the point I wanted to throttle him. Springsteen was religion for him. Made me hate the music even more.

I will give you this, E Street Shuffle and Rosalita are good songs. When you release over a hundred, yer bound to have a couple of good ones!LOL
751 posted on 03/12/2003 4:42:41 AM PST by conservativemusician
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To: Mudboy Slim
One more thing in favor of Bruce.

Anybody who plays 3 hour concerts shows me he loves to play. Can't argue with that. I know how he feels.
752 posted on 03/12/2003 4:45:22 AM PST by conservativemusician
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To: conservativemusician
To CM: Thanks for your testimony for the defense in posts XVII.751 and 752.
754 posted on 03/12/2003 5:53:30 AM PST by sultan88 (Hadleyville is still a peaceful town.)
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To: Mudboy Slim; conservativemusician
Angry Young Man

There's a place in the world for the angry young man
With his working class ties and his radical plans
He refuses to bend he refuses to crawl
And he's always at home with his back to the wall
And he's proud of his scars and the battles he's lost
And struggles and bleeds as he hangs on his cross
And likes to be known as the angry young man

Give a moment or two to the angry young man
With his foot in his mouth and his heart in his hand
He's been stabbed in the back he's been misunderstood
It's a comfort to know his intentions are good
And he sits in his room with a lock on the door
With his maps and his medals laid out on the floor
And he likes to be known as the angry young man

...I believe I've passed the age of consciousness and righteous rage
...I found that just surviving was a noble fight
...I once believed in causes too
...I had my pointless point of view
...And life went on no matter who was wrong or right >doink!<

And there's always a place for the angry young man
With his fist in the air and his head in the sand
And he's never been able to learn from mistakes
So he can't understand why his heart always breaks
And his honor is pure and his courage is well
And he's fair and he's true and he's boring as hell
And he'll go to the grave as an angry old man

--------------------

Sing it Mud, &, sing it loud, often & a lot.
Your "custom made" *fight* song!
I mean if ever there were one, this would have to be it.
~sigh~
& just imagine.

...it didn't eeeevennnn need to be Freeped. :^)

755 posted on 03/12/2003 6:14:16 AM PST by Landru
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To: sultan88; conservativemusician; FBD; jla; Landru; BOBTHENAILER; backhoe; stand watie; Taxman
"Ring Dem Bells"
(To be sung to Bob Dylan's "Ring Them Bells")

Ring Dem bells, you heathens with yer Big Guv'ment schemes...
Ring Dem bells from yer sanctuaries where Vile Lib'rals preach!!
"Re-Impeach!!" Mudboy cried...
"We got Truth on our side...
"bil Klinton's Power's FRactured...Sweet Justice Be Thine!!"

Ring Dem bells, good FReepers, let yer OUTRAGE show!!
Ring Dem bells...make yer righteous stand, so John Ashcroft will know!!
Folks, it's Rush Hour now...
Help US FReep 'Gainst RATS' Power!!
GoodLord, the sun is settin' down upon Left's sacred cows!!

Ring Dem bells, Sweet Justice, tell yer Congressman...
Ring Dem bells so the World will know McAuliffe's SCUM!!
Folks, the Networks are asleep...
But OUR Power is to FReep...
'Cuz the Country's still filled with lost sheep.

Ring Dem bells...fer Left's Blind Ignorance!!
Ring Dem bells for those morally-bereft!!
Ring Dem bells for Left's chosen few...
Who would judge the many...
Yet say, "Slick is KEWL!!"
Ring Dem bells for RATS' Chi-Com SPIES...
For the kids that died...
When innocents FRIED!!

Ring Dem bells, brave Patriots, Shan't Let Tyranny Bloom!!
Ring Dem bells for OUR Sailors whom Slick Willie entombed!!
List of crimes is long...
And Bold FReepers are Strong...
'Cuz we're breakin' down resistance to Rightin' Wrongs!!

Mudboy Slim

Folks, it's time we demonstrated the Power of FReepin' to those who would deprive us of Justice and Liberty!! Terry McAuliffe, outspoken proponent of Campaign Finance Reform and Chairman of the DNC, has committed multiple FELONIES to get to his position of prominence in the DemocRATic Party, yet no one seems willing to hold him accountable!! As Bill Clinton's Chief Fundraiser in the '96 Presidential elections, McAuliffe was the mastermind behind the Union/DemocRAT scheme to bilk hard-working blue-collar workers out of Millions of Dollars of Pension Funds so as to provide Bill Clinton with the cash to retain his position of Power, and no INDICTMENT has been forthcoming. Elle Bee tells me there is a 5-year Statute of Limitations--expiring this Fall--on this Crime, and George Bush's Attorney General, John Ashcroft, has not said one word about holding the DNC Chairman accountable for his crimes!! THIS INJUSTICE SHALL NOT STAND!!

A small contingent of Justice-loving FReepers have--for over TWENTY (20) Months--been promoting a series of threads exposing McAuliffe's long criminal history, but now it's time to take the Truth beyond FreeRepublic.com!! Please assist our efforts with your emails, phone calls, and snail mails to those who need to expose this lowlife SCUM for all the World to see!!

Thanks for your help in Ringin' the Bells of Justice!!

FReegards...MUD

1 Posted on 08/17/2001 22:59:43 PDT by Mudboy Slim (NOW or NEVER Time, FReepers!!)

Let's Kick It UP a Notch, folks, the Wolf is at The Door...MUD

756 posted on 03/12/2003 6:24:23 AM PST by Mudboy Slim (The A.N.S.W.E.R., my FRiends..."DemonRATS LOATHE EqualJustice Fer ALL!!")
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To: George W. Bush
"Why the LeftWing DemonRATS LOATHE Dubyuh!!"

"Like Truman, Bush came to the White House greatly under-estimated, even by those who voted for him. I was one of them. People made fun of his speechmaking ability, his leadership potential, even his intelligence. Leaders in his own party compared him unfavorably to his Democrat predecessor. Truman got to be president mainly because the smarter Democrats didn't want Henry Wallace to be the ailing FDR's vice-president a second time. Of course, Truman's enemies couldn't make that same claim in 1948, when he pulled off the biggest upset in presidential history, knocking off Thomas Dewey.

For his part, we were told, Bush got the job because the electorate in Florida didn't know how to cast their ballots, and because the U.S. Supreme Court was part of a vast right-wing conspiracy. (Funny how the Democrats never point out that Al Gore is one of the few presidential candidates who have failed to carry his home state. If Tennessee had voted for its least favorite son, it wouldn't have mattered what happened in Florida!) The DemonRATS, still licking their wounds from 2000, haven't yet gotten around to explaining how this political nonentity managed to lead his party to victory in the 2002 elections without any help from Justice Rehnquist and his judicial cohorts.

What Bush and Truman have in common, besides their less than dazzling oratorical skills, are honesty, principles and a respect for the Office. Truman had a sign on his desk stating that The Buck Stops Here. Bush might as well have one of his own.

Bush speaks of an Axis of Evil, and he names names. For his part, Truman waged the Cold War because he recognized that evil exists in the world, and you either combat it or you become its accessory. And for men of honor, the latter course is never an option. In Truman's day, the appeasers claimed that the Soviet Union was not a danger to America or the world. They claimed that Joseph Stalin was, at worst, a tinhorn dictator ruling a backward nation; at best, a heroic leader who had helped defeat the Nazis. When he gobbled up all of Eastern Europe, enslaving hundreds of millions of people, they defended him. Stalin needed a buffer; after all, mother Russia had been invaded by Napoleon and Hitler. They pointed out that Germany had slaughtered millions of Russians, while ignoring the brutal fact that for a quarter of a century, Stalin had done the exact same thing with never a peep heard from the American left.

Now the children and grandchildren of these people cast Bush, not Saddam Hussein, in the role of villain. It doesn't matter to them that Iraq has invaded Iran and Kuwait and launched missiles at Israel, just as it doesn't faze them that Hussein gassed Kurds by the tens of thousands, and has amassed weapons of mass destruction. These people are so estranged from truth and logic that they will, on the one hand, emphatically insist that Hussein possesses no such weaponry, and then wring their hands in fear that he will unleash these non-existent chemicals if we invade Iraq.

These four-flushers [BWAHAHAHAHA!!] will praise the likes of France and Russia as representing the conscience of mankind, while accusing Bush of being beholden to the oil interests — all the while ignoring the fact that it's France and Russia that have billion dollar oil deals with Hussein. Obviously, if Bush were out to gain control of Arab oil, he would go to war against such pushovers as Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. If we merely wanted Iraqi oil, we'd buy it, the same way we get the stuff from Mexico, Venezuela and the rest of the Middle East. Hussein would be only too happy to sell it to us. No, if it were really about oil, the way the pinheads insist it is in their childish chants and slogans, would George Bush so openly side with Israel, the one country in that part of the world that is bereft of oil? Because Bush's detractors lack principles themselves, they can never acknowledge the virtue in others. Because they despise America, they regard patriotism as villainy. Because they indulge in double-talk, they abhor plain-speaking. They claim that North Korea has become suddenly hostile and dangerous because Bush dared to call them evil, disregarding the fact that he called them evil because they had broken their nuclear treaty within a few months of brokering the agreement with the previous administration.

The hypocrisy of the left is boundless. They demanded that Bush get congressional backing before invading Iraq. He did. They then demanded he take the matter up with the Security Council. He did. Then they demanded that he do it all over again. In the meantime, they insist that he not rush to war. If this is their idea of rushing, one has to wonder what they regard as slow and steady. The left insists that U.N. inspectors be given more time to play hide-and-seek with Hussein. The inspectors were never supposed to find anything; their sole mission was to confirm that Hussein had disposed of his gases and chemical plague agents. Obviously he never did, so confirmation was out of the question. But, then, why would he? Why should he? All he had to do to get so-called world opinion behind him was claim that he only kicked the original arms inspectors out of Iraq because they were spying. Boys and girls, that is what inspectors do.

No matter how patient Bush is, no matter how much he kowtows to the U.N., it's not enough for these people. But you notice they never said a discouraging word when Clinton dropped bombs in Serbia, Somalia and the Sudan. There was no outcry that he was being imperialistic, that he was trying to take over the world. Martin Sheen and Susan Sarandon didn't demand that he go hat-in-hand to the United Nations. I don't recall liberals moaning about collateral damage, just as I don't recall any of these aging hippies offering themselves up as human shields.

George W. Bush's being in the White House embarrasses these folks, but Bill Clinton, the man who turned the Oval Office into the Oral Office, him they'd enshrine on Mount Rushmore. To show you how foolish and out of sync with the American people those on the left truly are, you have merely to consider that they call Bush a Texas cowboy, just as they used to call Truman a Missouri haberdasher — and that's their idea of an insult!"

WOW...must read, IMHO...MUD

757 posted on 03/12/2003 6:59:00 AM PST by Mudboy Slim (The A.N.S.W.E.R., my FRiends..."DemonRATS LOATHE EqualJustice Fer ALL!!")
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To: Landru; LoneGreenEyeshade; Happygal
If my Screen Name wasn't MudboySlim, it'd be HappyDude, dude...MUD

BTW..."Could not find anybody named 'HappyDude'

758 posted on 03/12/2003 7:01:20 AM PST by Mudboy Slim (The A.N.S.W.E.R., my FRiends..."DemonRATS LOATHE EqualJustice Fer ALL!!")
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To: conservativemusician; M. Thatcher; RonDog; JohnHuang2; Michael G.
"Hewitt Blames Bobdole Fer KlintonSixtyMinuteFiasco!!"
March 11, 2003

"Don Hewitt of 60 Minutes is blaming Bob Dole for making the Clinton & Dole segment boring. This is from the New York Post, Michael Starr wrote the piece: "If you were left cold by Sunday night's hotly anticipated '60 Minutes' showdown between Bill Clinton and Bob Dole, you weren't alone. '60 Minutes' chief Don Hewitt wasn't happy, either, and said he thought Dole needs work - and that the feature will have to be juiced up a bit. 'We're going to make sure it looks like more of a confrontation next time,' Hewitt told The Post."

Hewitt also said, "Dole knows he can do better, he called me and said I don't think I was as sharp as I could have been." Look folks, can we get something on the table? CBS got exactly what they wanted. They got headlines the next day that read, "Clinton: Bush tax cut unwarranted during time of war." As though news was made. There was no quote from AP on what Dole said in the headline. CBS wanted Bill Clinton to do a commentary. They knew they couldn't get away with just Bill Clinton alone, so they had to revive Point/Counterpoint, and they went out and found Senator Dole for Clinton to beat up on.

Honestly, they both were kind of sleep inducing. Clinton looked pale, weary, and excessively gray with big bags under his eyes, sort of like there's a lot on his mind. And there probably is, my friends. There probably is."

Heh heh heh...MUD

759 posted on 03/12/2003 7:08:17 AM PST by Mudboy Slim (The A.N.S.W.E.R., my FRiends..."DemonRATS LOATHE EqualJustice Fer ALL!!")
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To: bkwells
Received this from guy over in middle east. He's a writer....not flag
writer.....washington post writer.

You've never been in love, some say you've never been ALIVE,
till you've fallen in love with a sailor. An American Navy
Sailor. Is there another kind?

Likely he's tall. Six feet or more. He's probably thin.
Some say "reedy." He sports a funny white hat. He wears
bell bottom trousers that button. No zipper. He wears a
kerchief he's proud of. It has three stripes that represent
Nelson's three greatest sea battles. No kidding.

He's from Canton, Ohio. Or Sioux City, Iowa. Albany, New
York. Alpine, California.

His ship might be from Norfolk or San Diego. Even
Jacksonville or Alameda.

He's a man from the past and at the same time he's here in
the flesh. He's a sailor. An American Navy Sailor.

You might think of him as a man who climbs the mast to reef
the sails. Despite the history he wears, he is a man of
today, even tomorrow. He is an Air Controller. A Flight
Crewman. A Radarman. An Electronic Warfare Specialist. An
Intelligence Specialist. Yes, he could be a Yeoman, but not
the one from Nelson's Navy. He could be a Parachute Jumper
or a Religious Specialist. A Radioman. A Fire Controlman.
An Electronics Technician. An Interior Communications
Technician. A Mess Management Specialist. He's tall, he's
proud, he aint no Marine. He wears blue. No red stripe. He
has sea legs. He knows women in Thailand and Japan and
Korea. He's tough and soft and crazy-fun and serious as hell
at the same time.

He knows his job.

He's an expert in fire fighting. And all kinds of damage
control. He can keep a ship afloat after serious damage. Or
he can get you to the boats and navigate you home. He might
be able to read light or semaphore or Morse code. Ever hear
of them?

He's a sailor. An American sailor.

He's critical to American Sea Power.

Sea Power. Not a concept lost. A concept found. What is it
that gives us a 360 degree attack angle on Saddam? Sea
Power. Turkey said no troops. No tanks.

Who cares?

We'll attack from where we want, when we want, on vectors of
our choosing. Know why? There is sea all around there.
Pretty much all around everywhere. Carriers my friend.
Fighters and bombers and ECM. Marines in LCACs and helos and
VSTOL aircraft. TOMAHAWK missiles from submarines and
hundreds of surface combatants. From every possible
direction. At any time of the night or day. Flying
thousands of miles. With precision. On target. Pretty much
every time. Day or night. As the President directs.

He's young. He's proud. He's beautiful. He could be Black,
or Latino, or White; it doesn't matter. He's a Sailor.

He's proud. He's trained. He's ready. He's professional.

He's a sailor. A United States Navy Sailor.

God love him.

90 posted on 03/12/2003 10:08 AM EST by bkwells (Deployed on USS TARAWA (LHA-1))

Thanks fer sharing, BKW...MUD
760 posted on 03/12/2003 7:13:16 AM PST by Mudboy Slim (The A.N.S.W.E.R., my FRiends..."DemonRATS LOATHE EqualJustice Fer ALL!!")
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