Rudyard Kipling"
“When you're left wounded on Afganistan's plains and
the women come out to cut up what remains, Just roll to your rifle
and blow out your brains,
And go to your God like a soldier”
General Douglas MacArthur"
“We are not retreating. We are advancing in another direction.”
“It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.” “Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
“The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and be the deepest wounds and scars of war.”
“May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't .” “The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
“Nobody ever defended, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.
“It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
The Soldier stood and faced God
Which must always come to pass
He hoped his shoes were shining
Just as bright as his brass
"Step forward you Soldier,
How shall I deal with you?
Have you always turned the other cheek?
To My Church have you been true?"
"No, Lord, I guess I ain't
Because those of us who carry guns
Can't always be a saint."
I've had to work on Sundays
And at times my talk was tough,
And sometimes I've been violent,
Because the world is awfully rough.
But, I never took a penny
That wasn't mine to keep.
Though I worked a lot of overtime
When the bills got just too steep,
The Soldier squared his shoulders and said
And I never passed a cry for help
Though at times I shook with fear,
And sometimes, God forgive me,
I've wept unmanly tears.
I know I don't deserve a place
Among the people here.
They never wanted me around
Except to calm their fears.
If you've a place for me here,
Lord, It needn't be so grand,
I never expected or had too much,
But if you don't, I'll understand."
There was silence all around the throne
Where the saints had often trod
As the Soldier waited quietly,
For the judgment of his God.
"Step forward now, you Soldier,
You've borne your burden well.
Walk peacefully on Heaven's streets,
You've done your time in Hell."
From Malaysiakini Migrate, Zahid tells those unhappy with GE13 results Onyourtoes:
Home Minister Zahid Hamidi, please listen good. In the first place, the
electoral system that we have today is not as stipulated in our
original constitution. It is a system that has been manipulated by your
party during the past five decades. So please don't ever say the
opposition has no respect of the country's electoral system. But you
are right if you say we have zero respect for the system that your party
has currently put in place because it was not based on ‘one man, one
vote' system. It violates the very essence of parliamentary
democracy where even if rural constituencies are given higher weightage,
such an advantage should not be so excessive. It is our right to
continue to agitate for change. It is up to you to listen or not to
listen. But if you can't stand our ranting anymore, I suggest you resign
and take a break in Timbuktu or elsewhere. Please don't ask us to migrate; this is not your country alone. Apa Nama: Zahid, the ‘first past the post' is not the fault here. It's the way BN has implemented it. BN
did not follow the original delineation whereby the difference between
two constituencies should be no more that 20 percent as far as
population is concerned. Later BN amended to 50 percent and now
even some parliamentary constituencies have about 20,000 voters while
others have 140,000. This is what we dispute - the skewing of the
results by BN.
Restless_Native: No surprise here - arrogance, steadfast refusal to learn the lessons of GE13 and no capacity for original thought. PM
Najib Razak, in a way I feel sorry for you. I would have expected the
PM to gather his new cabinet line-up and brief them of a 'new approach'
with the stipulation that the old arguments (such as this one by this
kampung boy) should never be raised. It looks like another five
years of the same diatribe from this 'new' BN line-up. Najib, get rid of
all your ministers over 35. While you are at it, purge all your
ministries of the top 25 percent of the leadership (on early retirement)
and take a similar approach with the GLCs (government-linked
companies), too. None of them has delivered to expectations, so no loss there. Maybe then, just maybe... you might have a chance at true reform.
Up2U: Hell
hath no fury when a minister of Zahid's temperament is appointed to
head the Home Ministry. Malaysians and political leaders from the
opposition, beware! It just show Najib is not sincere in
bringing Malaysians together. We might as well change Malaysia to a
dictatorship where no election is required. LittleGiant: A
typical outburst from a Umno-BN minister. Most ministers in the
country's cabinet do not have the ability to absorb and understand
issues in a broad and open-minded perspective. They lack tact and
cannot articulate in an intelligent manner. There is no point fretting
about it. BN has, and will always have, leaders who will only 'react'
and cannot 'respond'. LKT: With all the cheating, Pakatan Rakyat still won in Penang, Selangor and Kelantan. Now
without cheating, Pakatan would have won in Perak and Terengganu as
well as the control over Putrajaya. Also Pakatan won all but two of the
parliament seats in Kuala Lumpur. This is a fact. The BN
government is illegitimate because it won through massive election fraud
engineered by Election Commission (EC) and National Registration
Department (NRD). We will and must remind BN everyday of this fact. Whatsup: Zahid, it's a shame to us having you in the cabinet and as a fellow Malaysian, this is unbelievably insulting and hurting. Despite
all of you stealing billions and billions of our money, betraying the
country, the rakyat and Agong, indulging in deceit, blatant lies to
hoodwink others, and other heinous acts most unbecoming of civilised
men, did we law-abiding citizens ask you to leave? So what kind
of man are you to be so cruel to those who only want what's good for the
rakyat and country, unlike you who only know what's good for yourself,
your bank account (goes without saying) and your masters. Ferdtan: Leaders
become famous by having their statements immortalised on their
important day. We have example like US president Abrahim Lincoln who at
the end of American Civil War made one of the best-known speeches in the
American history. The Gettysburg Address was delivered by
Lincoln at the dedication for the fallen soldiers after the defeat of
Confederacy south with a call for "a new birth of freedom that would
bring true equality to all its citizens." Here, in Malaysia, the
moment an Umno leader is appointed as a new home minister, he called for
the opposition supporters to get out of the country if they are not
happy with the country's electoral system. Yes, Zahid this is your most ‘famous' first words - we will never let you forget that. One day you are going to eat those words.
