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Sunday, February 1, 2009

Quotes: The True Believer

Filed under: Quotes — Tags: , , — Matt @ 9:43 AM

 

   Doug sent me this quote, and I had seen it floating around before, but never knew it’s source.  It was written by a 7th Group guy, and this quote is hanging on the wall of quite a few offices and bulletin boards on bases out there. I think it was written in 2006, but that is not confirmed. And who knows, maybe this guy got the quote somewhere else.  Either way, it is an excellent quote and worthy of mention here on FJ. –Matt

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“Somewhere a true believer is training to kill you.  He is training with minimum food and water, in austere conditions, day and night.  The only thing clean on him is his weapon.  He doesn’t worry about what workout to do — his rucksack weighs what is weighs, and he runs until the enemy stops chasing him.  The true believer doesn’t care how hard it is; he knows that he either wins or dies.  He doesn’t go home at 1700; he is home.  He only knows the cause.  Now.  Who wants to quit?”

 

By NousDefionsDoc, administrator for the Professional Soldiers forum.

 

Sunday, January 18, 2009

Quotes: Hillary Clinton and Security Contractors

Filed under: Quotes — Tags: , , — Matt @ 4:19 PM

   Way to call that one Doug.  There is politics, and then there is reality. We are an essential part of the big picture. –Matt

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“These private security contractors have been reckless and have compromised our mission in Iraq,” Clinton said in a prepared statement, referring to private security companies performing traditionally military missions. “The time to show these contractors the door is long past due.” –Hillary Clinton during presidential campaign.

 

I expect she’ll back off her hard line campaign rhetoric on the issue. She will be keen not to paint Obama into a corner by demanding unrealistic timetables or requirements for ending the use of private security. Not sure how her folks at State would take losing their primary security force in Iraq overnight . . .-Doug Brooks, President of IPOA.

 

“Our civilian employees need to be protected. As we withdraw our troops, we have to get assurances of their protection by Iraqi troops, or we have to use contractors.”-Hillary Clinton at her confirmation hearing at the Senate for Secretary of State.

 

More here at Democracy Arsenal blog.

 

Friday, July 25, 2008

Quotes: Sayyid Imam al-Sharif

Filed under: Al Qaeda,Quotes — Tags: , , , , — Matt @ 8:47 PM

   This was my favorite quote from the Economist article I posted earlier.  This one’s for the enemy out there (and you know who you are) that might be reading this.  You are a stain on Islam and humanity and we will put you back into the toilet where you belong. Inshallah. –Mudeer 

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Dr. Fadl

Reformed Booger Eater, Dr. Fadl 

Another blow was delivered from an Egyptian jail by Sayyid Imam al-Sharif, better known as Dr Fadl, one of al-Qaeda’s founders in 1988 and a former leader of Mr Zawahiri’s movement, al-Jihad. He had developed much of al-Qaeda’s ideology, but at the end of last year he came up with a sweeping revision. “There is nothing that invokes the anger of God and His wrath like the unwarranted spilling of blood and wrecking of property,” he wrote. -Economist

Monday, June 16, 2008

Quotes: Colonel John Boyd, ‘To Be or To Do’

Filed under: Quotes — Tags: , , — Matt @ 1:28 PM

     “One day you will take a fork in the road, and you’re going to have to make a decision about which direction you want to go. If you go one way, you can be somebody. You will have to make your compromises and … turn your back on your friends, but you will be a member of the club, and you will get promoted and get good assignments. Or you can go the other way, and you can do something, something for your country and for your Air Force and for yourself. … You may not get promoted, and you may not get good assignments, and you certainly will not be a favorite of your superiors, but you won’t have to compromise yourself. … In life there is often a roll call. That’s when you have to make a decision: to be or to do.”

Col. John Boyd

 John Boyd on Wikipedia 

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