{"id":19695,"date":"2010-07-10T07:31:23","date_gmt":"2010-07-10T11:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=19695"},"modified":"2010-07-10T07:31:23","modified_gmt":"2010-07-10T11:31:23","slug":"setting-up-mattis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=19695","title":{"rendered":"Setting up Mattis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The general appointed to run Central Command to replace General Petraeus, James Mattis is the <a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/federal-eye\/2010\/07\/james_mattis_its_fun_to_shoot.html\">Washington Post<\/a>&#8216;s latest target. They post this heavily edited al Jazeera video on their website;<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"500\" height=\"333\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/MkXtWwNDSdA&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xd0d0d0&#038;hl=en_US&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/MkXtWwNDSdA&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xd0d0d0&#038;hl=en_US&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s fun to kill some people&#8221; is an actual quote from General Mattis, however you have to scroll down a few paragraphs ro read the context of the quote;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years, because they didn&#8217;t wear a veil,&#8221; Mattis said. &#8220;You know guys like that ain&#8217;t got no manhood left anyway. So it&#8217;s a hell of a lot of fun to shoot &#8217;em.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The quote is five years old, but apparently because the media has been unsuccessful thus far ending this particular war, they&#8217;ll dredge up ols quotes to get rid of the military&#8217;s most effective leaders. The new sport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The general appointed to run Central Command to replace General Petraeus, James Mattis is the Washington &hellip; <a title=\"Setting up Mattis\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=19695\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Setting up Mattis<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}