A few [General] George Patton quotes:
"A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week."
"Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results."
"If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you’ll be amazed at the results."
"If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking."
"Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable."
"Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash."
"The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That’s the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!"
"Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack."
2008-04-09
George Patton quotes
2008-03-23
Five Years in Iraq - What's the Problem?
We know the numbers - 1 trillion dollars, 5 years, 775 detainees in Guantanamo, 935 false statements made by the administration, about 4,000 dead Americans, 30-50,000 wounded soldiers, over 100,000 soldiers with treated and untreated PTSD, almost a million dead Iraqis, 2 million internally displaced Iraqis and up to 3 million Iraqi refugees who have left the country.
But apparently this is not a problem...
...unlike the Jesus we remember this Easter, overcoming death to raise our own moral standards and free us from unproductive and selfish lives - the dead Americans and Iraqis are going to stay dead as permanent testaments to our lack of ethics, our economic barrenness, and our supreme selfishness. One thing is for sure - and maybe the mainstream media actually got it right. You can't blame Bush and Cheney, five years later.
-- Karen Kwiatkowski
