OBAMA SHOULD BE REGRETTING THIS DECISION:

Gen. James Mattis, known to his troops as “Mad Dog Mattis,” [retired in 2013] after 41 years of military service.

The Marine Corps Times is calling Mattis the “most revered Marine in a generation.”
Mattis has been commander of the United States Central Command since 2010 and led the 1st Marine Division into Iraq in 2003.

According to reports, President Barack Obama decided to force the Marine Corps legend out early because he rubbed civilian officials the wrong way, and forced them to answer tough questions regarding Iran.

Mattis was an inspirational leader of men and his powerful words will go down in history. Here are (very few) of the best he has had to offer:

Find the enemy that wants to end this experiment (in American democracy) and kill every one of them until they’re so sick of the killing that they leave us and our freedoms intact.

Starting in 2016.

Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet.

I can't tell you how many times I heard this particular admonition during my two tours of Iraq. I am utterly convinced that there are many soldiers alive today because they heeded that admonition.

The most important six inches on the battlefield is between your ears.

On the political battlefield too. Republicans take heed.

No war is over until the enemy says it’s over. We may think it over, we may declare it over, but in fact, the enemy gets a vote.

Except in the Land of Unicorns & Rainbows, where there are no enemies, just 'misguided friends'.

You cannot allow any of your people to avoid the brutal facts. If they start living in a dream world, it’s going to be bad.

As we have seen in the Land of Unicorns & Rainbows....

... do not cross us. Because if you do, the survivors will write about what we do here for 10,000 years.

Advice for the rest of the world, effective January 21, 2017.

Anybody surprised Obama forced this guy to retire early?

Original post by the Washington Free Beacon on March 18, 2013 (no link).