"Goodnight, Chesty, wherever you are."

This is from a WaPo article:

During a White House meeting last week, a group of governors asked President Bush and Marine Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, about their backup plan for Iraq. What would the administration do if its new strategy didn't work?

The conclusion they took away, the governors later said, was that there is no Plan B. "I'm a Marine," Pace told them, "and Marines don't talk about failure. They talk about victory."

Pace had a simple way of summarizing the administration's position, Gov. Phil Bredesen (D-Tenn.) recalled. "Plan B was to make Plan A work.


It's like that speech was delivered in a movie by The Rock, not a member of the Joint Chiefs.

Other things Marines don't talk about:

-Being gay



Read the whole article here