Posted on 11/17/2004 9:02:43 AM PST by areafiftyone
~Merlin~
True.
That line has always been in my memory.
I wonder why he didn't notice the big rat that had a camera in his hand.
ARTHUR
Which is the greatest quality of knighthood? Courage? Compassion? Loyalty? Humility? What do you say, Merlin?
MERLIN
The greatest? They blend together like the metals we mix to make a good sword.
ARTHUR
I didn't ask for poetry. Which is it?
MERLIN
All right. Truth. It must be truth, above all. When a man lies he murders some part of the world.
What really pisses me off about this is that the commanding general (Gen. George Casey) has already judged the Marine guilty and has alluded to it publicly. He said: "But I don't think that [the incident] in any way is a reflection on the quality and caliber of absolutely fine young servicemen and women we have serving here in Iraq." [Link here: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,138813,00.html ]
This has to be dealt with FREEPERS. Our guys cannot be walking around with their safteys on on their weapons. They don't have time to ask the bad guys if they are unarmed. The bad guys never read the Geneva Convenation. The world is trying to disarm us an they are led by the U.N. They can't have the Military's weapons and they can't have mine. I was not in combat though from what I've found out about it over the years is that you have to be the first one to fire. Gunery Sergeant Carlos Hathcock put a round though the Noth Vietnamese sniper scope and into his head just before the Cong decided to pull his trigger. Hathcock lived the North Vietnamese didn't.
They seem to forget to mention the reason they went back to that spot. Was they were taken fire from there again.
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