American Troops Quotes

• If we are going to commit American troops, we must be certain they have a clear mission, an achievable goal and an exit strategy.

  Karen Hughes

  Goal, Troops, Exit

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• American troops and American taxpayers are shouldering a huge burden with no end in sight because Mr. Bush took us to war on false premises and with no plan to win the peace.

  Al Gore

  War, Winning, Sight

  "How to Debate George Bush" by Al Gore, www.nytimes.com. September 29, 2004.

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• The presence of American troops is fueling the insurgency in Iraq, as acknowledged by General Casey and numerous other experts, and is helping terrorist recruiters build their numbers across the globe.

  John Conyers

  Iraq, Numbers, Troops

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• Forty-five percent of Iraqi citizens think it is morally okay to attack American troops.

  Marty Meehan

  Thinking, Troops, Citizens

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• American troops have not only occupied Ulster but are arriving in increasing numbers in England.

  John Amery

  Numbers, Ulster, Troops

  John Amery (2007). “John Amery Speaks, &: England and Europe”

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• Many of the vicious criminals held there have been caught on the battlefield fighting against American troops and shutting down Guantanamo Bay would just require the military to move them elsewhere.

  Bill Shuster

  Military, Moving, Fighting

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• As costs mount, in lives and dollars, it is natural to second guess, but one lesson I hope we have learned is that the U.S. cannot go it alone in a policy that leaves American troops taking all the risk and American taxpayers paying all of the costs.

  John Spratt

  Risk, Troops, Dollars

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• The problem is that the Iraqi people are facing atrocities from both sides - Zarqawi and also the American troops at times. The Zarqawi groups uses car bombs, the Americans use other bombs. You also know what they do in the prisons.

  Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

  People, Car, Atrocities

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• We saw the president of the United States engage American troops in a fourth conflict in a foreign land. This is historic.

  Michele Bachmann

  Land, President, United States

  Western Debate in Las Vegas, www.thepoliticalguide.com. October 18, 2011.

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• It's fair to say average Americans think that the average Afghan doesn't want American troops in their country.

  Ashraf Ghani

  Country, Thinking, Average

  Source: www.npr.org

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• So one important lesson of Vietnam is, the first casualty of an unwise and unjust war are the American troops called on to fight it. Their service should be honored.

  Paul Begala

  War, Fighting, Important

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• Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake.

  Nick Clooney

  Mistake, Iraq, Troops

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• So such an American troops presence in Korea in the South and Japan, total some 100,000 should stay there forever, even after unification of Korean peninsula.

  Kim Dae-jung

  Japan, Korea, Forever

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• It was helpful to have the American troops there in great strength. They knew there'd be consequences if they didn't move back. Now, there has been some removal of the foreign forces.

  Warren Christopher

  Moving, Troops, Helpful

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• I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way.

  George W. Bush

  Writing, Iraq, People

  George Walker Bush, John W. Dietrich (2005). “The George W. Bush Foreign Policy Reader: Presidential Speeches and Commentary”, p.106, M.E. Sharpe

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• In early 1961 a new president, John F. Kennedy, was told by military leaders and civilian officials that the Kingdom of Laos - of no conceivable strategic importance to the U.S. - required the presence of American troops and perhaps even tactical nuclear weapons. Why? Because if Laos fell, Asia would go red from Thailand to Indonesia.

  Jeff Greenfield

  Military, Leader, President

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• Three years into the war, tens of thousands of American troops remain targets of a growing Iraqi insurgency.

  Jan Schakowsky

  War, Years, Growing

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• Before the trip began we mapped out three primary goals: 1) to see and meet with our American troops, and thank them for their bravery and sacrifice; 2) to assess the security situation in Iraq; and 3) to give our support to Iraq's national unity government.

  John Boehner

  Travel, Sacrifice, Government

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• Before we put an American in harm's way, tell us why. No one wants to see the region descend into further chaos. There's a lot of concern about getting embroiled in another Vietnam and ... about sending American troops once again to fight someone else's war.

  Xavier Becerra

  Military, War, Fighting

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• Our firm view is that the president has no legal authority, none whatsoever, to commit American troops to war in the Persian Gulf or anywhere else without congressional authorization.

  George J. Mitchell

  War, Views, President

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• It's harder to end a war than begin one. Indeed, everything that American troops have done in Iraq -- all the fighting and all the dying, the bleeding and the building, and the training and the partnering -- all of it has led to this moment of success. Now, Iraq is not a perfect place. It has many challenges ahead. But we're leaving behind a sovereign, stable and self-reliant Iraq, with a representative government that was elected by its people. We're building a new partnership between our nations.

  Barack Obama

  War, Fighting, Self

  Remarks by the President and First Lady on the End of the War in Iraq at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. December 14, 2011.

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• Motivated more by partisan politics than by national security, todays Democratic leaders see America as an occupier, not a liberator. And nothing makes this Marine madder than someone calling American troops occupiers rather than liberators.

  Zell Miller

  Marine, America, Leader

  2004 Republican National Convention Address, delivered 1 September 2004, Madison Square Garden, New York

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• I am very optimistic about - about Iraq. I mean, this could be one of the great achievements of this administration. You're going to see 90,000 American troops come marching home by the end of the summer. You're going to see a stable government in Iraq that is actually moving toward a representative government.

  Joe Biden

  Summer, Moving, Optimistic

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• Once again, President Clinton is using American troops to deflect attention from his record of lies, distortions, obstructions of justice and abuse of power.

  Ron Paul

  Lying, Justice, Abuse

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• George W. Bush made the agreement about when American troops would leave Iraq, not Barack Obama.

  Hillary Clinton

  Iraq, Agreement, Troops

  "Transcript of the First Debate". www.nytimes.com. September 27, 2016.

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