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February 21, 2007

Three Speeches to Contemplate

This is a speech from General George S. Patton. Please beware, the language is for adults only, because he was a fighting man, and spoke as such.

"Men, this stuff that some sources sling around about America wanting out of this war, not wanting to fight, is a crock of bullshit. Americans love to fight, traditionally. All real Americans love the sting and clash of battle. You are here today for three reasons. First, because you are here to defend your homes and your loved ones. Second, you are here for your own self respect, because you would not want to be anywhere else. Third, you are here because you are real men and all real men like to fight. When you, here, everyone of you, were kids, you all admired the champion marble player, the fastest runner, the toughest boxer, the big league ball players, and the All-American football players. Americans love a winner. Americans will not tolerate a loser. Americans despise cowards. Americans play to win all of the time. I wouldn't give a hoot in hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost nor will ever lose a war; for the very idea of losing is hateful to an American. You are not all going to die. Only two percent of you right here today would die in a major battle. Death must not be feared. Death, in time, comes to all men. Yes, every man is scared in his first battle. If he says he's not, he's a liar. Some men are cowards but they fight the same as the brave men or they get the hell slammed out of them watching men fight who are just as scared as they are. The real hero is the man who fights even though he is scared. Some men get over their fright in a minute under fire. For some, it takes an hour. For some, it takes days. But a real man will never let his fear of death overpower his honor, his sense of duty to his country, and his innate manhood. Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best and it removes all that is base. Americans pride themselves on being He Men and they ARE He Men. Remember that the enemy is just as frightened as you are, and probably more so. They are not supermen. All through your Army careers, you men have bitched about what you call 'chicken shit drilling.' That, like everything else in this Army, has a definite purpose. That purpose is alertness. Alertness must be bred into every soldier. I don't give a fuck for a man who's not always on his toes. You men are veterans or you wouldn't be here. You are ready for what's to come. A man must be alert at all times if he expects to stay alive. If you're not alert, sometime, a German son-of-an-asshole-bitch is going to sneak up behind you and beat you to death with a sockful of shit! There are four hundred neatly marked graves somewhere in Sicily, all because one man went to sleep on the job. But they are German graves, because we caught the bastard asleep before they did. An Army is a team. It lives, sleeps, eats, and fights as a team. This individual heroic stuff is pure horse shit. The bilious bastards who write that kind of stuff for the Saturday Evening Post don't know any more about real fighting under fire than they know about f_-_-_-_-_-_-_! We have the finest food, the finest equipment, the best spirit, and the best men in the world. Why, by God, I actually pity those poor sons-of-bitches we're going up against. By God, I do. My men don't surrender. I don't want to hear of any soldier under my command being captured unless he has been hit. Even if you are hit, you can still fight back. That's not just bull shit either. The kind of man that I want in my command is just like the lieutenant in Libya, who, with a Luger against his chest, jerked off his helmet, swept the gun aside with one hand, and busted the hell out of the Kraut with his helmet. Then he jumped on the gun and went out and killed another German before they knew what the hell was coming off. And, all of that time, this man had a bullet through a lung. There was a real man! All of the real heroes are not storybook combat fighters, either. Every single man in this Army plays a vital role. Don't ever let up. Don't ever think that your job is unimportant. Every man has a job to do and he must do it. Every man is a vital link in the great chain. What if every truck driver suddenly decided that he didn't like the whine of those shells overhead, turned yellow, and jumped headlong into a ditch? The cowardly bastard could say, 'Hell, they won't miss me, just one man in thousands.' But, what if every man thought that way? Where in the hell would we be now? What would our country, our loved ones, our homes, even the world, be like? No, Goddamnit, Americans don't think like that. Every man does his job. Every man serves the whole. Every department, every unit, is important in the vast scheme of this war. The ordnance men are needed to supply the guns and machinery of war to keep us rolling. The Quartermaster is needed to bring up food and clothes because where we are going there isn't a hell of a lot to steal. Every last man on K.P. has a job to do, even the one who heats our water to keep us from getting the 'G.I. Shits.' Each man must not think only of himself, but also of his buddy fighting beside him. We don't want yellow cowards in this Army. They should be killed off like rats. If not, they will go home after this war and breed more cowards. The brave men will breed more brave men. Kill off the Goddamned cowards and we will have a nation of brave men. One of the bravest men that I ever saw was a fellow on top of a telegraph pole in the midst of a furious fire fight in Tunisia. I stopped and asked what the hell he was doing up there at a time like that. He answered, 'Fixing the wire, Sir'. I asked, 'Isn't that a little unhealthy right about now?' He answered, 'Yes Sir, but the Goddamned wire has to be fixed'. I asked, 'Don't those planes strafing the road bother you?' And he answered, 'No, Sir, but you sure as hell do!' Now, there was a real man. A real soldier. There was a man who devoted all he had to his duty, no matter how seemingly insignificant his duty might appear at the time, no matter how great the odds. And you should have seen those trucks on the rode to Tunisia. Those drivers were magnificent. All day and all night they rolled over those son-of-a-bitching roads, never stopping, never faltering from their course, with shells bursting all around them all of the time. We got through on good old American guts. Many of those men drove for over forty consecutive hours. These men weren't combat men, but they were soldiers with a job to do. They did it, and in one hell of a way they did it. They were part of a team. Without team effort, without them, the fight would have been lost. All of the links in the chain pulled together and the chain became unbreakable. Don't forget, you men don't know that I'm here. No mention of that fact is to be made in any letters. The world is not supposed to know what the hell happened to me. I'm not supposed to be commanding this Army. I'm not even supposed to be here in England. Let the first bastards to find out be the Goddamned Germans. Some day I want to see them raise up on their piss-soaked hind legs and howl, 'Jesus Christ, it's the Goddamned Third Army again and that son-of-a-fucking-bitch Patton.' We want to get the hell over there. The quicker we clean up this Goddamned mess, the quicker we can take a little jaunt against the purple pissing Japs and clean out their nest, too. Before the Goddamned Marines get all of the credit. Sure, we want to go home. We want this war over with. The quickest way to get it over with is to go get the bastards who started it. The quicker they are whipped, the quicker we can go home. The shortest way home is through Berlin and Tokyo. And when we get to Berlin, I am personally going to shoot that paper hanging son-of-a-bitch Hitler. Just like I'd shoot a snake! When a man is lying in a shell hole, if he just stays there all day, a German will get to him eventually. The hell with that idea. The hell with taking it. My men don't dig foxholes. I don't want them to. Foxholes only slow up an offensive. Keep moving. And don't give the enemy time to dig one either. We'll win this war, but we'll win it only by fighting and by showing the Germans that we've got more guts than they have; or ever will have. We're not going to just shoot the sons-of-bitches, we're going to rip out their living Goddamned guts and use them to grease the treads of our tanks. We're going to murder those lousy Hun cocksuckers by the bushel-fucking-basket. War is a bloody, killing business. You've got to spill their blood, or they will spill yours. Rip them up the belly. Shoot them in the guts. When shells are hitting all around you and you wipe the dirt off your face and realize that instead of dirt it's the blood and guts of what once was your best friend beside you, you'll know what to do! I don't want to get any messages saying, 'I am holding my position.' We are not holding a Goddamned thing. Let the Germans do that. We are advancing constantly and we are not interested in holding onto anything, except the enemy's balls. We are going to twist his balls and kick the living shit out of him all of the time. Our basic plan of operation is to advance and to keep on advancing regardless of whether we have to go over, under, or through the enemy. We are going to go through him like crap through a goose; like shit through a tin horn! From time to time there will be some complaints that we are pushing our people too hard. I don't give a good Goddamn about such complaints. I believe in the old and sound rule that an ounce of sweat will save a gallon of blood. The harder WE push, the more Germans we will kill. The more Germans we kill, the fewer of our men will be killed. Pushing means fewer casualties. I want you all to remember that. There is one great thing that you men will all be able to say after this war is over and you are home once again. You may be thankful that twenty years from now when you are sitting by the fireplace with your grandson on your knee and he asks you what you did in the great World War II, you WON'T have to cough, shift him to the other knee and say, 'Well, your Granddaddy shoveled shit in Louisiana.' No, Sir, you can look him straight in the eye and say, 'Son, your Granddaddy rode with the Great Third Army and a Son-of-a-Goddamned-Bitch named Georgie Patton!' "
Thus was the courage and fighting spirit during World War II and why we were victorious.
Next comes Rush Limbaugh:
One of the darkest days in the history of the House of Representatives is slated for tomorrow. This is where they're going to vote on this nonbinding resolution, and the "slow bleed process to take the president out of Iraq. Actually, the process here is to isolate him politically and to limit his ability to maneuver, similar to what happened with the Democrats in the Congress during the Vietnam War with Nixon. They actually never did cut off funding for Nixon, but they did tell him where he couldn't send troops. It eventually led to a debacle, and the same thing is being planned here by people, and they're calling themselves "courageous;" people who are telling themselves and their audiences that they are acting in the best interests of the country. But I'll tell you, there is no sound bite; there is no torturously crafted statement; there is no skillful twist of logic; no lawyerly proclamation; no media spin, whatsoever, that will turn the House vote tomorrow -- this nonbinding resolution -- into anything but a disgrace of historic proportion. The only positive here in these debates, is that the House is showing they have the courage to show they have none. They are demonstrating, for each and every one of us, that they have all the courage in the world to show that they have no courage whatsoever. Do you know what courage would be here? Courage would be going against the polls and supporting the mission. Courage would be going with the polls and cutting off funds. Neither of these options are on the table for these people, because they don't have the courage to do either of those things. All they have is the courage to say, "We support the troops, Mr. Limbaugh! We support the troops," and that, my friends, is not support. It is the guidance of political consultants who tell 'em what to say. But what message are they sending to our troops? What message are they sending to the enemy, and what message are they sending to Pelosi's children and grandchildren? Speaker Pelosi, Congressmen Hoyer and Murtha, you might be conning the moderates out there. No doubt you are. But, you're not fooling the left -- your ragtag mob out there who want immediate withdrawal -- and you're not fooling the right who want victory. This historic BS, this historic Barbra Streisand will have little effect now, but it will put you in the record books for arranging one of the darkest days in the history of the House of Representatives.
Last, Congressman Ric Keller, a traitorous Republican from the state of Florida. This sniveling coward needs a hemp necktie for his next formal dinner engagement. Compare his stand to America's enemies to General Patton.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to discuss the War in Iraq. I oppose the surge. We don’t need more American troops caught in the cross hairs of a civil war. After nearly 4 years, it’s high time for the Iraqis to send in their own troops to take out the Shia militias and the Sunni insurgents.In short, the problem in Iraq is that we are losing nearly 100 American lives every month, and we are spending $2 billion a week. The solution is not to lose even more lives and to spend even more money. I approach this subject with a great deal of humility, and it is not my intention to micromanage this war. I am merely a Member of Congress, and not a 4 star general. But I have listened to what the most well-respected, 4 star generals in the United States have to say about this matter. And Generals Abizaid, Casey, and Colin Powell have all said that sending another surge of troops into Iraq is not the answer. I’m terribly concerned about interjecting American troops into the middle of civil war violence. Who do they shoot at? The Sunni? The Shia? Well, one thing we know is that 61% of Iraqis approve of violent attacks against our U.S. troops.Does that sound like a grateful country to you? Thanks to our brave American troops, Saddam Hussein and al-Zarqawi are dead. The Iraqi people have had 3 democratic elections. And three-fourths of the senior al-Qaeda operatives have been killed or captured. And yet 61% of Iraqis want to kill American troops? And 79% of Iraqis have a “mostly negative” view of the United States. The American people have paid the ultimate price for this war, and now is not the time to escalate the tragedy even further. This Iraq war has lasted longer than World War II, it has claimed more American lives than the attacks of 9/11, and it has cost more money than the Vietnam War.The military action this Congress authorized in 2002 was for a far different purpose than the war we face today. I voted to authorize the use of force because I did not want Saddam Hussein to give weapons of mass destruction to al-Qaeda. Now Saddam Hussein is dead, and there are no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Why did we stay in Iraq? Because we wanted the Iraqi people to have a unified and secure government, so that Iraq would not become a haven for terrorists, like what happened to Afghanistan after Russia pulled out.Unfortunately, the Iraqi government has provided neither unity nor security. After nearly 4 years, the Iraqis still have not achieved reconciliation, still not decided how to share their oil revenues, and still not dealt with the militias and insurgents.For example, 80% of the sectarian violence in Iraq is within a 30 mile radius of Bagdad. Yet, despite the fact that the Iraqi security forces outnumber the al-Sadr militia by a ratio of 5 to 1 (300,000 vs. 60,000), the Maliki government still has not taken action to take out Moqtada al-Sadr and his militia. In his speech, President Bush tells us that he emphasized the importance of benchmarks with Prime Minister Maliki. Unfortunately, the Iraqi government has a pattern of not fulfilling its promises with regard to benchmarks.For example, when I was in Iraq in May of last year, the Iraqi government officials told me they would be able to provide security for themselves by December of ’06. Now they’re saying they hope to have their own security in place by December of 2007.Similarly, the U.S. surged the number of troops in Baghdad last summer from 7,500 to 15,000 to take out insurgents, but the Iraqi government reneged on its promise to provide Iraqi troops and, as a result, the insurgents came right back after we left. Mr. Speaker, I believe the motives of President Bush, and other prominent leaders such as Senator John McCain who are pushing for more troops, are pure and well meaning. I believe they sincerely think this is the best way forward. Three years ago, I would have agreed with them. However, at this late stage, interjecting more young American troops into the cross fire of an Iraqi civil war is simply not the right approach. We’re not going to solve an Iraqi political problem with an American military solution. In closing, regardless of how one feels about the War in Iraq, or the proposed surge in troops, as long as our American troops are in harms way, it is our duty and responsibility to support these troops 100%.May God bless our troops and our country. I yield back the balance of my time.
Marshal Will Kane

Posted by Marshal Will Kane at February 21, 2007 01:04 PM Posted to Commentary

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