"War is the remedy my enemy has chosen, and I say let him have all of it that he will have."
William Tecumsa Sherman

If we only could!

Another from Admiral "Bull" Halsey, when asked his strategy, "Kill Japs, kill Japs, and kill more Japs!"

"War is hell."

General William Tecumseh Sherman

'Purple-pissing' is a reference to VD treatments of the time. Lavage with gentian violet used to be used against some STDs, notably candidiasis and gonorrhoea.

"And Caesar’s ghost, roaming about in search of revenge, with hate at his side still hot from hell, will in these boundaries with a ruler’s voice cry ‘HAVOC’ and let slip the dogs of war, so that this terrible action will smell above the earth, with rotting corpses, begging to be buried.”

At least he wasn't quoting Robert Frost or Maya Angelou! I mean there is gay, and then there is all the way gay.

David,

Thanks for that. I was wonderin'.

I thought maybe it was some reference to a contaminant in Japanese sea food that occasionally made them piss purple.

That amish guy above me isnt the real me. The only poetry i know is of the dirty limerick variety. I feel violated.

Nice post, Ace. Linked here.

Why doesn't someone ask CAIR, "What precisely is wrong with taking pleasure in ridding the world of people so depraved that they beat and stone women for 'immodesty'?"

Quoting Shakespearian fiction in support of a real situation? Er, yeah, ok.

By the way - every other quote I've seen raised in support does not even come close to saying it's fun to kill some people. FUN. Don't you get it?

When the guy in charge is running around killing people for fun, you gotta wonder...

FUN. Don't you get it?

God you sound like such a clueless priss.

This is not sniping hapless college students from a clock tower, its war.

This is WAR, don't you get it??
Do you want your brother, a Marine, to wince and turn away when he pulls the trigger? Would you prefer he is an emotionless automaton?

I'd want him to know he's doing the right thing, and yes- enjoy exterminating vermin.

People tend to forget Patton was by far the best-read of all American generals. He was a military genius, and you can bet every crude comment was amde for a reason.

I think "fun" was certainly implied.

"We're not going to just shoot the sons-of-bitches, we're going to rip out their living Goddamned guts and use them to grease the treads of our tanks. We're going to murder those lousy Hun cock suckers by the bushel-fucking-basket." -- Patton

Adamant, now doesn't THAT sound like FUN?

pussior.

Some people just need killing, and there's nothing wrong with saying that one derives a certain satisfaction from a job well done.

"War means fightin', and fightin' means killin'."

Nathan Bedford Forrest, CSA

Check out this, if you want to see some good MARINE CORPS quotes. GOD BLESS the jarheads!:
http://www.montney.com/marine/quotes.htm