Lt. Gen. James Mattis

 

February 4, 2005  (I was 60)

 

         Lt. Gen. James Mattis

     (I saw the news today, Oh boy)

 

We hire a mentality of insensibility

so a group of us feels it should laugh

when he says, “I like killing some people.”

And further, “I admit it; I just like to fight.”

He does not pretend it is for a cause,

we use him for our purpose,

he signs on for his.

He comes cheap but thinks he’s well paid.

We are agents of change.

We don’t even wash our hands.

It’s a cautious laugh

but some applaud when he adds,

“You know guys like that,”

(referring to Muslims)

“aint got no manhood left anyway.

So it’s a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them.”

“That’s why we call him Mad Dog,”

we shake our heads and say.