From: Jurriaan Bendien (adsl675281@TISCALI.NL)
Date: Thu Nov 30 2006 - 13:07:46 EST
Here's a Presidential assurance that the West is not going soft or anything, when faced with 'barbarous hordes' threatening 'democratic civilisation': "There were doubts about NATO and our ability to conduct demanding security operations. There are no questions about our ability now. We've killed many hundreds of Taliban, and it has removed any doubt in anybody's mind that NATO can do what we were sent here to do." - President Bush, during a speech on the NATO Alliance in Riga (Latvia), approvingly quoting General David Richards, the British commander of NATO troops in Afghanistan. http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/11/20061128-13.html (The German newsmagazine Der Spiegel recently ran a story headed "The Germans Have to Learn How to Kill", referring to the alleged reluctance of German soldiers to get actively involved in the fighting in Afghanistan). http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,449479,00.html It all reminded me of the famous lines in Arlo Guthrie's anti-war song "Alice's Restaurant": "And I went up there, I said, "Shrink, I want to kill. I mean, I wanna, I wanna kill. Kill. I wanna, I wanna see, I wanna see blood and gore and guts and veins in my teeth. Eat dead burnt bodies. I mean kill, Kill, KILL, KILL." And I started jumpin up and down yelling, "KILL, KILL," and he started jumpin up and down with me and we was both jumping up and down yelling, "KILL, KILL." And the sargent came over, pinned a medal on me, sent me down the hall, said, "You're our boy."" Jurriaan
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