It pizzed me off something fierce that I didn't get a gilt-edged invitation to Desert Storm. An old Army Buddy and I were talking about that and I said "Hell, I'm CBR qualified. At my age, whenever anyone yells 'Gas', the first thing I do is say, 'It wasn't me'".
My Darlin Neice married a wonderful guy from Pakistan. His family is one of those you would invite or take anywhere. They are wonderful people. I'm feeling much better about marrying her off, now that I have a fairly ready access to the mountain areas of both Pakistan and Afganistan and can go looking for GW's 25 million dollar booty whenever I want.
I agree with you about saving the younger ones and letting us older guys get back into it but ya know Bill, they will have to pick up the fight at some point or there won't be anyone around after we have gone and whizzed off to keep the domestic wolves away from our constitutional freedoms.
And I'm serious about not waiting for someone to come to us. That is such a laisse-faire (notice the french pronounciation = fairy) attitude and is what has gotten us into hot water by being unprepared for one world war and two subsequent conflicts. But, that makes me a war monger of all extremes and the type hated by liberals, demicraps and other jackals. Well, I'm certain that somewhere, someone will have a recipe for that entree. Possibly Big Daddy Idi Amin might publish his own cookbook. He's had a bit of help from one of his wives in that regard.
One of the mistakes we made was to get too lazy in regard to our willingness to take up the fight first. Our failed leadership under the klinton regime gave terrorists the world over the notion that we would simply bend over and acquiese (?) to their terrorist demands. They are still hoping that even though we have a real President who isn't afraid to get his nose bloodied in a fight, the weakness of the previous administration is still so strong in this country that we won't fight. Bin laden counted on this and so did Hussein.
Bin laden found out the hard way that he was sadly mistaken. If we can take any information at some face value regarding this guy, we see that he is dying and that he will try, as best he can, to make one final stab at this country. He knows he has failed and the only way he can save his intended martyred outlook (save face) is to kill himself off before he dies of his disease or we get him first. Otherwise, if he dies in ignomy or we kill or capture him, he will have lost it all. Usually a martyr's suicide is the result of failure somewhere and he has failed.
He hit us, he hurt our innocent civilians, and in return we have killed off and continue to kill off his followers and have destroyed his empire. He has lost and it is simply a matter of time before he has to martyr himself to save face. Sounds like we are gettin' pretty close to this sumnabitch, or else he wouldn't have issued that statement.
Now, as for Mr. Saddam Hussein - I believe that arrogant piece of schmidt has finally gotten the message. I believe he knows full well that the only way he can save face, and keep it to himself, is to do what he just did yesterday with his decree against weapons of mass destruction. The world is just getting far too close to him for his own comfort and he knows it. He and idjits like Hamas and Bin laden can whip up the peasantry all they want with talk of suicidal martyrdom but for him, who wants to remain in power, Saddam will bend whichever way the international wind blows and right now it is blowing right in his face.
As much as I would personally like to lead an armored invasion of Iraq and then dsimount and take it to the ground, I don't think it will happen. Saddam will relent at the last minute because he got his bass kicked last time and knows that this time we won't stop the way the UN had wanted us to in 91. I think that is enough for him to make up his mind.
Yes friend, I would love to save the younger ones for the beautiful sunny days of the future but if we don't get them into it with us, none of us will see those days. And I'll gladly take along any man, or woman, who would like to get into it. We can call ourselves the First Volunteer Geriatric Brigade. That should make them at least wonder.
Just remember: I can control any mob with tear gas, and any riot with a machinegun. This be Mikey.
Oh, ps: frogs butts ain't all that tight, at least not in the french army, or so I unnerstand.
