General who said it was 'fun to shoot people' takes over US Central Command

General who said it was 'fun to shoot people' takes over US Central Command
The Telegraph (One of the UK's leading newspapers), July 8, 2010
Posted: 2010-07-19 09:49:22
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/7880617/General-wh...

A senior US general once criticised for saying it was "fun to shoot some people" has been picked to take over US Central Command, leading the military command running the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. General James Mattis, the current head of the US Joint Forces Command ... previously led troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. Centcom ... covers 20 countries and stretches from Egypt across the Middle East and into south and central Asia. Gen Mattis was reprimanded [in 2005] by the Marine Corps for telling a conference in San Diego, California: "It's fun to shoot some people. I'll be right up front with you, I like brawling." During a discussion panel he said: "You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil. You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway. So it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them."

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