Black XIX: "FRee Iraq!!"

The MudCave ^ | 9 April 2003 | Mudboy Slim

[FBD]

Thanks for the photo/image hosting link!

FRegards

[cherry_bomb88]

you're very welcome!

[FBD]

Take Up The White Man's Burden
By Rudyard Kipling
1899

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This poem was written to President Teddy Roosevelt on the taking of the Philippines. I hope none will be offended by the use of “white man” please keep in mind the era it was written. “White man” could well be replaced with the word “U.S.”, and still be just as relevant with Iraq, today. It’s a warning about nation building, and not to expect gratitude, or thanks from those we liberate. Some third world cultures just don’t appreciate freedom. Which is why they are third world in the first place, IMO.

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Take up the White man's burden --
Send forth the best ye breed --
Go bind your sons to exile
To serve your captives' need;
To wait in heavy harness
On fluttered folk and wild --
Your new-caught, sullen peoples,
Half devil and half child.

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Shiite Muslims slashing their own foreheads in Karbala

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Take up the White Man's burden --
In patience to abide,
To veil the threat of terror
And check the show of pride;
By open speech and simple,
An hundred times made plain.
To seek another's profit,
And work another's gain.

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Take up the White Man's burden --
The savage wars of peace --
Fill full the mouth of Famine
And bid the sickness cease;
And when your goal is nearest
The end for others sought,
Watch Sloth and heathen Folly
Bring all your hope to nought.

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Take up the White Man's burden --
No tawdry rule of kings,
But toil of serf and sweeper --
The tale of common things.
The ports ye shall not enter,
The roads ye shall not tread,
Go make them with your living,
And mark them with your dead!

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Take up the White man's burden --
And reap his old reward:
The blame of those ye better,
The hate of those ye guard --
The cry of hosts ye humour
(Ah, slowly!) toward the light:
"Why brought ye us from bondage,
"Our beloved Egyptian night?"

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Iraqi Shiites protesting US presence in Iraq

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Take up the White Man's burden --
Ye dare not stoop to less --
Nor call too loud on freedom
To cloak your weariness;
By all ye cry or whisper,
By all ye leave or do,
The silent, sullen peoples
Shall weigh your Gods and you.

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Take up the White Man's burden --
Have done with childish days --
The lightly proffered laurel,
The easy, ungrudged praise.
Comes now, to search your manhood
Through all the thankless years,
Cold-edged with dear-bought wisdom,
The judgment of your peers!

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[cherry_bomb88]

Thanks for posting that, I'd forgotten about that poem. Kipling was a words master. I'm impressed!

[cherry_bomb88]

Big 88.....me thinks that the "bald ones" ('Dru & FBD) are ignoring your (and my) request that they post photos of themselves. Perhaps they fear they'll be mistaken for poster children for "The Hair Club For Men"????? {g}

Lil 88

[goldilucky]

morning bump

[cherry_bomb88]

Morning, goldi!!! Hope you are having a great day.

[Mudboy Slim]

"Shiite Muslims slashing their own foreheads in Karbala..."

Self-mutilation as activism?! I simply don't understand this...great pictures, though, especially when intermingled with the Kipling.

FReegards...MUD

[Mudboy Slim]

LOL...glad to see Castro finally gittin' his due as a Proud Member of the Axis of EVIL...MUD

[Mudboy Slim]

"There's an echo in here it's so empty!"

It's the Calm Before the Storm...Black XX will see a return to the Jihad 'Gainst McAuliffe...MUD

[Mudboy Slim]

HOO's Bon Jovi?!

MUD

[cherry_bomb88]

Black XX already???? Where does the time go?

[cherry_bomb88]

yer kiddin', right?????

[cherry_bomb88]

Ok...I heard this song on the radio today and a FReep just popped into my head...so I'm stepping off the album I'm working on momentarily.....

You gotta keep ‘em liberated
(sung to the tune of “You gotta keep ‘em separated” by Offspring)

Like the latest Freedom
It's spreading overseas
The kids are smiling and dancing in the Baghdad streets
Getting food and speaking out with out fear of cease

The looters stripped their own neighbors’ stores
And if the Marines catch ya’ stealing, they’ll even the score
If the Kurds and the Shiites can’t get it together
Tommy’s gonna match ‘em up

Chorus
Hey Saddam you talkin’ back to Bush?
Take ‘dam out
You gotta keep ‘em liberated
Hey ‘Dam you disrespecting Bush?
Take him out
You gotta keep ‘em liberated
Hey ‘Dam don’t seem to mind
If ya don’t leave by the 18th ya’ll be out of time
Hey come out and “play”

By the time you hear the sirens
It’s already too late
One bomb is down your chimney and the other’s on your plate
One bomb’s in the palace and the other’s on it’s way

The bombs gonna come a thousand at a time
Marines are getting closer
Army will make sure you leave
Your never ending spree of death and violence and hate
Is gonna tie your own rope

Hey Saddam you talkin’ back to Bush?
Take ‘dam out
You gotta keep ‘em liberated
Hey ‘Dam you disrespecting Bush?
Take him out
You gotta keep ‘em liberated
Hey ‘Dam don’t seem to mind
If ya don’t leave by the 18th ya’ll be out of time
Hey come out and “play”

[cherry_bomb88]

btw...thanks for taking our 88 post! :oP With nothing very pithy I might add!!! What do you think, Big 88????

[jla]

HOO's Bon Jovi?!

LOL (I was only kidding around)

BTW...Managed to get the next 2 days off to search for a house. Anyone have any leads let me know.

And being a relatively new VA resident, is it a fact that state coffers are being replenished by trailer & boat taxes since the cut(s) in the car tax?
And if so, when was this implemented?

[Happygal]

Good luck with the house hunt. Get something nearer to work! :-)

[FBD]

"Self-mutilation as activism?! I simply don't understand this...great pictures, though, especially when intermingled with the Kipling."

Thanks for the compliment Mud.

Yeah, pretty wacky religion to be slashing ones own forehead, huh? I guess it is done to honor a Shiite martyr of some sort...one can only hope that they continue to hurt only themselves, instead of others...

FReegards

[FBD]

"LOL...glad to see Castro finally gittin' his due as a Proud Member of the Axis of EVIL"...MUD

Yup, Castro will soon be joining the "dustbin" of failed tyrannical regimes...sooner rather than later, IMO.

[sultan88]

Recommend Dinwiddie County!