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I'm a pretty serious Independent.
We come to beginnings only at the end.
No plan survives contact with the enemy.
No one hates war like a soldier hates war.
The only time a dead certainty applies is in a dream world.
Probably we'll think of Bush in years to come as an American hero.
Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.
I'm not a fan almost anywhere of announcing to the enemy of what I'm going to do.
Retreat, hell! We're not retreating, we're just advancing in a different direction.
I can never again see a UNITED STATES MARINE without experiencing a feeling of reverence.
I'm not a fan of what we call 'friendly fire' or 'blue on blue.' We don't want to have that.
Feith had achieved the reputation in some military circles as 'the dumbest . . . guy on the planet.'
Courage has to do with controlling fear and it seems to me that focus has a way of overcoming anxiety.
As I look at President Bush, I think he will ultimately be judged as a man of extremely high character.
We're in fact on plan. And where we stand today is not, in my view, only acceptable but truly remarkable.
America decided we were going to stand by and let Americans die at the hands of terrorists a long time ago
Britain has invented a new missile. It's called the civil servant - it doesn't work and it can't be fired.
Genuine beginnings begin within us, even when they are brought to our attention by external opportunities.
America decided we were going to stand by and let Americans die at the hands of terrorists a long time ago.
I remember when I was a private soldier. I remember the days when I was taken care of and when I was not taken care of.
I have said a lot in the past and now I think it is best that I do not comment on what I think when I look at President Bush!
Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.
Disenchantment, whether it is a minor disappointment or a major shock, is the signal that things are moving into transition in our lives.
Peace is a militant state, which is not secured by wishful thinking. . . . If we are to be sure of our liberty, we must be ready to fight for it.
I had a hope that the Iraqis would embrace a new government, would establish a new Iraq very quickly, and, but I never had that as an expectation.
I, for one, begin with intent. There is no question that, Saddam Hussein had intent to do harm to the Western alliance and to the United States of America.
I, for one, begin with intent. ... There is no question that Saddam Hussein had intent to do harm to the Western alliance and to the United States of America.
If the United States is hit with a weapon of mass destruction that inflicts large casualties, the Constitution will likely be discarded in favor of a military form of government.
The western world, the free world, loses what it cherishes most, and that is freedom and liberty we've seen for a couple of hundred years in this grand experiment that we call democracy.
I'm going to fight my way out, I'm going to take all my equipment and all my wounded and as many dead as I can. If we can't get out this way, this Division will never fight as a unit again.
If terrorists succeeded in using a weapon of mass destruction against the U.S. or one of our allies, it would likely have catastrophic consequences for our cherished republican form of government.
Now, when you boys get home, you're gonna see a lot of war protestors. But don't be bitter. Go up to one, shake his hand, and smile. Then wink at his girlfriend, because she knows she's dating a pussy.
Gen. Tommy Franks Says That If The United States Is Hit With A Weapon Of Mass Destruction That Inflicts Large Casualties, The Constitution Will Likely Be Discarded In Favor Of A Military Form Of Government
The military infrastructure grew me. My faith in God is important, my belief in my country is important, my relationship to my family is important, the things that Mom and Dad tell you growing up are important.
We're interested in it because it would provide a land bridge up to Uzbekistan, which provides us, among other things, a humanitarian pathway for us to move supplies out of Central Asia and down into Afghanistan.
We have learned the need to be flexible or to have flexible forces, agile forces, who can move quickly, secure themselves when they arrive in a location, assess the needs of a given mission, and move to that mission.
There is no doubt that the regime of Saddam Hussein possesses weapons of mass destruction. As this operation continues, those weapons will be identified, found, along with the people who have produced them and who guard them.
If the guilt of sin is so great that nothing can satisfy it but the blood of Jesus; and the filth of sin is so great that nothing can fetch out the stain thereof but the blood of Jesus, how great, how heinous, how sinful must the evil of sin be.
We have learned that precision munitions go precisely where they're targeted to go. We've learned that the introduction of human beings in the equation, who can cause the precision munitions to go precisely where they should go, pays a huge dividend.
My men are being unmercifully shelled. They cannot hold out if an attack is launched. The firing line and my headquarters are being plastered with heavy guns and the town is being swept by shrapnel. I myself am O.K. but the front line is being buried.
A terrorist, massive, casualty-producing event [will occur] somewhere in the Western world - it may be in the United States of America - that causes our population to question our own Constitution and to begin to militarize our country in order to avoid a repeat of another mass, casualty-producing event.