Our Troops Quotes - Page 4

• For example, the use of chemical weapons [in Syria]- some on the Democrat side have said well, this encourages the North Koreans to use chemical weapons against our troops.

  Rand Paul

  Use, Weapons, Sides

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• Our troops are terrorizing women and children in the dark of night in Iraq.

  John F. Kerry

  Children, Dark, Night

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Most Americans believe that escalation will not bring the war in Iraq to a responsible end, and that's why I've proposed not just a troop cap, but a phased redeployment that will start bringing our troops home.

  Barack Obama

  War, Believe, Home

  "Flat State of the Union Address Still Earns Requisite Applause", www.foxnews.com. January 24, 2007.

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• The president has outlined a new strategy for success in Iraq, but in order for this effort to be successful the Iraqi government must be held accountable. ... If we fail in Iraq, or withdraw our troops prematurely, the terrorists will follow us home. Success is our only option.

  John Boehner

  Home, Successful, Government

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• Those who try to stifle the vibrancy of our democracy and shield policies from scrutiny behind a false cloak of patriotism miss the real value of what our troops defend and how we best defend our troops. We will ask questions and we will defend our democracy.

  John F. Kerry

  Real, Missing, Democracy

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• Be tough, hold a tough line, but don`t be running off into another war, especially since even if you support our troops and you want to have a robust foreign policy, you recognize that we have - we have been overdeploying our men and women, and we have been spilling our blood and treasure, and we need to be more careful.

  Chris Matthews

  Running, War, Men

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I'm an internationalist. I'd like to see our troops dispersed through the world only at the directive of the United Nations.

  John F. Kerry

  Troops, World, United Nations

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• We owe it to our troops to let them sleep in their own beds, wake up in the morning, have a delicious breakfast, and drive to war.

  Daniel Tosh

  Morning, War, Sleep

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• We owe our troops the opportunity to serve in the best-planned, best-equipped, and best-led military force in the world, and we owe them the peace of mind that comes from knowing that they and their families will be taken care of if they sacrifice life, limb or the ability to sleep without war's nightmares. We owe them not just thanks and best wishes, but action, and action in our nation's capital.

  John F. Kerry

  Military, War, Taken

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• Using overwhelming air power to utterly and completely destroy ISIS. To put things in perspective, in the first Persian Gulf War, we launched roughly 1,100 air attacks a day. We carpet bombed them for 36 days, saturation bombing, after which our troops went in and in a day and a half mopped up what was left of the Iraqi army.

  Ted Cruz

  War, Army, Air

  Republican Presidential Debate, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. December 16, 2015.

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• If Barack Obama cannot appreciate that our troops are winning in Iraq, he should not be their Commander in Chief.

  Lindsey Graham

  Winning, Iraq, Appreciate

  "Special Coverage for the RNC". "Hardball with Chris Matthews", www.nbcnews.com. September 4, 2008.

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• The Bush administration must understand that each American has a right to question our policies in Iraq and elsewhere, and should not be demonized or condemned for disagreeing with them. Suggesting that to challenge and criticize policy is undermining and hurting our troops is not democratic, nor what this country has stood for over 200 years.

  Chuck Hagel

  Country, Hurt, Years

  "Cheney raps Democrats on war charges", www.cnn.com. November 17, 2005.

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• I've laid out a plan for how we keep people safe here at home, and I've laid out a plan of how we wage war and win by denying ISIS territory overseas. We must deny them their territory because the territory that they've conquered because Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama declared victory in Iraq and against every generals advice withdrew all of our troops, leaving a vacuum, weaponry, territory for ISIS to conquer, that territory, their caliphate, is that from which they draw legitimacy, potency, credibility. We have to deny them that territory.

  Carly Fiorina

  War, Home, Winning

  "Christie explains changed stance on gun laws; Trump Jr. talks father's candidacy; Fiorina scolds Clinton". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. January 06, 2016.

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• No U.S. soldier ever dies in vain because they're carrying out the missions of their commander in chief. And we honor all the service that they've provided. Our troops have performed brilliantly. The question is for the next president, are we making good judgments about how to keep America safe precisely because sending our military into battle is such an enormous step.

  Barack Obama

  Military, Soldier, Honor

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• We must support initiatives that provide clear, concrete measures and milestones that our troops need for defeating the insurgency, building up Iraqi security forces, and handing over Iraq to the Iraqi people.

  Sherrod Brown

  Building Up, Iraq, People

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• As I said a moment ago, there is no higher priority in our budget, or certainly in the budgets of the past few years, than providing for what is needed for the protection and security of our country and support of our troops.

  Jim Ryun

  Country, Past, Years

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• I believe that the president's (Bush) leadership in the actions taken in Iraq demonstrate an incompetence in terms of knowledge, judgment and experience in making the decisions that would have been necessary to truly accomplish the mission without the deaths to our troops and the cost to our taxpayers.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Taken, Believe, Iraq

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• Similarly, establishing a firm timeline for bringing our troops home could accelerate the development of Iraqi security forces and deepen their commitment to defending their own country and their own government.

  Peter DeFazio

  Country, Home, Commitment

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• Because the Bush Administration will set no timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, both chambers of Congress acted to make sure our troops will not be left in Iraq indefinitely.

  Jan Schakowsky

  Iraq, Troops, Withdrawal

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• It [referring to calling a Minister "Idiot"] was probably not an appropriate term, but we support the war effort and believe we should be supporting our troops and our allies and be there with them doing everything necessary to win.

  Stephen Harper

  War, Believe, Winning

  "Montreal Gazette" Newspaper, April 2003.

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• You can't lead your troops if your troops do not trust you.

  Diane Ravitch

  Troops, Ifs

  Diane Ravitch (2016). “The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education”, p.70, Basic Books

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• This is the year of Katrina and Iraq. How the war ends is more important than how it began. However you feel about the war, you have to be compassionate and loving towards our troops

  Geraldo Rivera

  War, Years, Iraq

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• It is regrettable that Senator Kennedy has chosen Veteran's Day to continue leveling baseless and false attacks that send the wrong signal to our troops and our enemy during a time of war. It is also regrettable that Senator Kennedy has found more time to say negative things about President Bush then he ever did about Saddam Hussein. If America were to follow Senator Kennedy's foreign policy, Saddam Hussein would not only still be in power, he would be oppressing and occupying Kuwait.

  Scott McClellan

  War, Kuwait, America

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• On a day when all Americans, regardless of party affiliation, are celebrating the growth of freedom and honoring the sacrifices of American and Iraqi troops with elections in Iraq, it's sad that John Kerry has chosen once again to offer vacillation and defeatism. Even after the first free elections in Iraq in more than 50 years John Kerry still believes Iraq is more of terrorist threat than when the brutal tyrant Saddam Hussein was in power and even more remarkably Kerry is now once again for funding our troops, after being for the funding before he was against it.

  Ken Mehlman

  Party, Believe, Sacrifice

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• Any Congressional agreement of an arbitrary time table to bring our troops home before we have accomplished our mission is unacceptable and could potentially increase the risk to our soldiers.

  James T. Walsh

  Home, Agreement, Soldier

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