Col Tim Collins' inspirational speech - Kenneth Branagh

we are going into iraq to liberate and not to conquer we will not fly our flags in their country now there are some who are alive at this moment who will not be alive shortly those of them who do not wish to go on that journey we will not send them as for the others i expect you to rock their world wipe them out if that's what they choose if you are ferocious in battle remember to be magnanimous in victory iraq is steeped in history it is the site of the garden of eden of the great flood it is the birthplace of abraham you tread you tread lightly there you'll have to go a long way to find a more decent generous and upright people than the iraqis you'll be embarrassed at the hospitality they offer you even though they have nothing do not treat them as refugees in their own country now if there are casualties of war remember and when they got up this morning and got dressed they did not plan to die this day so allow them dignity and death bury them with jew reverence and properly mark their graves it remains my foremost intention to bring every single one of you out alive but there may be those among us who will not see the end of this campaign and we will we will put them in their sleeping bags and we will send them back and there will be no time for sorrow we will grieve for them later the enemy should be in no doubt that we are his nemesis and we are bringing about his rightful destruction but remember it is a big step to take another human life it is not to be done lightly i know of men who have taken life needlessly in other conflicts i can assure you they live with a mark of can upon them and i know your mars will be in the queue at the co-op next week and they won't want you to let them down let's bring everybody home safely and leave iraq a better place for us having been there our business nigh is north good luck that's it fellas

Channel: andy walker

Views: 2,632,837

Rating: 4.865561 out of 5

Keywords: Branagh, Collins, speech, inspiration, Iraq, war, Irish, Army, British

Id: UpdeNcH1H8A

Length: 3min 31sec (211 seconds)

Published: Sat Mar 22 2008

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[u/dathill]

he was in the SAS as well