Wednesday, February 09, 2005
General Mattis, Please Speak Freely
Varifrank has a very good historical comparison between the unfortunately worded remarks of General Mattis and that of some of our country's other great generals. My favorite,
I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are. If I killed them all this evening they would be reporting news from Hell before breakfast.
- William Tecumseh Sherman
Via Vodkapundit.