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- Nov 07, 2020
A great deal of the capability of an army is its dedication to its cause and its will to fight. You can have the best equipment in the world, you can have the largest numbers in the world, but, if you're not dedicated to your cause, if you don't have the will to fight, then, you are not going to have a very good army.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not proud of killing, of being responsible for the death of a single person. I never will be.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
He is neither a strategist nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general. Other than that he's a great military man.
- Hero
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- Nov 07, 2020
It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
- Command
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- Nov 07, 2020
When placed in command, take charge.
- Nov 07, 2020
War is a profane thing.
- Negative
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- Nov 07, 2020
You learn far more from negative leadership than from positive leadership. Because you learn how not to do it. And, therefore, you learn how to do it.
- Professional
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- Nov 07, 2020
A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.
- Nov 07, 2020
Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
- Courage
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- Nov 07, 2020
True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that's what courage is.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
As far as Saddam Hussein being a great military strategist, he is neither a strategist, nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general, nor is he a soldier. Other than that, he's a great military man, I want you to know that.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Good generalship is a realization that... you've got to try and figure out how to accomplish your mission with a minimum loss of human life.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
Had the United States and the United Kingdom gone on alone to capture Baghdad, under the provisions of the Geneva and Hague conventions we would have been considered occupying powers and therefore would have been responsible for all the costs of maintaining or restoring government, education and other services for the people of Iraq.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Had we taken all of Iraq, we would have been like a dinosaur in the tar pit - we would still be there, and we, not the United Nations, would be bearing the costs of that occupation.
- War
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- Nov 07, 2020
First of all, Saddam did not win the war, even though he says he did, I mean, you know, that's a joke and everybody in the world knows it.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
If Saddam were to be replaced tomorrow he would probably be replaced with someone who's just as bad or worse than he is.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, unfortunately, I have always regretted the fact that I have a temper, but I also have, you know, have great love and respect for all of the people that have worked for me. I think like everything else, this is one of those things that has been blown out of proportion.
- Nice
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's nice to feel that you have a purpose.
- Caring
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd like to think I'm a caring human being.
- Army
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- Nov 07, 2020
I may have made my reputation as a general in the Army and I'm very proud of that. But I've always felt that I was more than one-dimensional.
- Destroy
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- Nov 07, 2020
If it had been our intention to take Iraq, if it had been our intention to destroy the country, if it had been our intention to overrun the country, we could have done it unopposed.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a politician. I'd make a lousy politician.
- Circumstances
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- Nov 07, 2020
I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is postwar Iraq going to look like, with the Kurds and the Sunnis and the Shiites? That's a huge question, to my mind.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't help but... with 20/20 hindsight, go back and say, 'Look, had we done something different, we probably wouldn't be facing what we are facing today.'
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to say I'm not a hero.
- Awful
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- Nov 07, 2020
An awful lot has been written about my temper.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
But I would defy anyone to go back over the years and tell me anyone whose career I've ruined, anyone whom I've driven out of the service, anyone I've fired from a job.
- Angry
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get angry at a principle, not a person.
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- Nov 07, 2020