Troops Quotes - Page 13

• Our neighbor Canada has 2,200 troops serving in Afghanistan. Canada has also assumed responsibility for the Provincial Reconstruction Team in Kandahar, which was originally established by our own military.

  Tom Lantos

  Military, Team, Responsibility

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• The first serious infowar is now engaged. The field of battle is WikiLeaks. You are the troops.

  John Perry Barlow

  Battle, Wikileaks, Fields

  John Perry Barlow @JPBarlow, twitter.com. December 3, 2010.

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• If I have any choice I would prefer Western Troops.

  John Buford

  Gdp, Choices, Western

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• Mr Speaker, Mr Vice President, members of Congress, distinguished guests, and fellow Americans, last month I went to Andrews Air Force Base and welcomed home some of our last troops to serve in Iraq. Together, we offered a final, proud salute to the colors under which more than a million of our fellow citizens fought, and several thousand gave their lives. We gather tonight knowing that this generation of heroes has made the United States safer and more respected around the world.

  Barack Obama

  Hero, Home, Knowing

  Third Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 24 January 2012, Washington, D.C.

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• I've never said that troops should be withdrawn. What I've said is, is that we've got to make sure that we secure and execute the rebuilding and reconstruction process effectively and properly, and I don't think we should have an artificial deadline when to do that.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Should Have, Iraq

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• People can quarrel with whether we should have more troops in Afghanistan or internationalize Iraq or whatever, but it is incontestable that on the day I left office, there were unaccounted for stocks of biological and chemical weapons.

  William J. Clinton

  Should Have, Iraq, People

  "Bill Clinton on Bush uranium line: 'Everybody makes mistakes'", www.cnn.com. July 23, 2003.

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• When the invasion began, the British public was called upon to 'support' troops sent illegally and undemocratically to kill people with whom we had no quarrel. 'The ultimate test of our professionalism' is how Commander McKendrick describes an unprovoked attack on a nation with no submarines, no navy and no air force, and now with no clean water and no electricity and, in many hospitals, no anaesthetic with which to amputate small limbs shredded by shrapnel. I have seen elsewhere how this is done, with a gag in the patient's mouth.

  John Pilger

  Usa, Iraq, Air

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• Imagine foreign troops sitting idly, laughing as hooligans trashed the Smithsonian, stole the gold from Fort Knox and burned down the Department of the Interior. That was us in Iraq.

  Ted Rall

  Usa, Iraq, Laughing

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• Died of wounds inflicted in error by his own troops at the battle of Chancellorsville during the US Civil War. Let us cross over the river and sit in the shade of the trees.

  Stonewall Jackson

  War, Errors, Rivers

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• The monster has escaped Elba!" "The tyrant has landed at Cannes!" "Bonaparte meets the troops." "Napoleon approaches Paris." "His Imperial Majesty has entered the capital.

  David Frum

  Tyrants, Paris, History

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• Yeah, I volunteered to support the troops, and get out there and show them that we care about them.

  Gary Sinise

  Support, Care, Yeah

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• Well, if the NATO countries don't make more of their troops usable and don't get the equipment to get them fast where the action is, then the organisation will suffer and will increasingly become irrelevant.

  George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen

  Country, Suffering, Action

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• Although the troops have struck us, we throw it all behind and are glad to meet you in peace and friendship.

  Black Kettle

  Friendship, Glad, Behinds

  "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee". Book by Dee Brown, p. 101, 1970.

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• The blood and sweat shed by United States and United Nations troops proved to be the prime mover behind the realisation of freedom throughout the post-war period.

  Kim Young-sam

  War, Blood, Sweat

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• We will be drawing down some troops. If the president wants to try to turn that into the beginning of a success, he actually, I think, has some opportunity.

  Stuart Rothenberg

  Opportunity, Thinking, Drawing

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• It's a sad day when the leaders of the free world engage in such deception and trickery. I voted against this unnecessary war and will continue to argue that the best way to support our troops is to bring them home.

  Major Owens

  War, Home, Hype

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• We in this Congress have a choice. The American people have a right to exercise a choice on this issue, as to whether our men and women will continue to fight and die in a war based on deception and fantasy, or to start bringing the troops home.

  Raul Grijalva

  War, Home, Fighting

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• Today they have proven once again that the mainstream media can't print enough bad news about our troops.

  Joe Scarborough

  Media, News, Today

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• A timeline for bringing U.S. troops home that is negotiated with the Iraqi government would also boost the Iraqi government's legitimacy and claim to self-rule, and force the Iraqi government to take responsibility for itself and its citizens.

  Peter DeFazio

  Home, Responsibility, Government

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

  John Amery

  Numbers, Ulster, Arriving

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

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• FLAG, n. A colored rag borne above troops and hoisted on forts and ships. It appears to serve the same purpose as certain signs that one sees and vacant lots in London

  Ambrose Bierce

  Rags, Purpose, Flags

  Ambrose Bierce (1973). “The Collected Writings of Ambrose Bierce”, Ayer Company Pub

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• Spain's new Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero announced he will soon call back Spain's 1300 troops from Iraq - meaning the coalition of the willing is fast turning into a duet of the stubborn.

  Jon Stewart

  Iraq, Spain, Duets

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• I strongly believe what we're doing is the right thing. If I didn't believe it -- I'm going to repeat what I said before -- I'd pull the troops out, nor if I believed we could win, I would pull the troops out.

  George W. Bush

  Believe, Winning, Said

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• I can look you in the eye and tell you I feel I've tried to solve the problem diplomatically to the max, and would have committed troops both in Afghanistan and Iraq knowing what I know today.

  George W. Bush

  Eye, Iraq, Knowing

  Speech in Hyatt Regency Irvine, California, www.ocregister.com. April 24, 2006.

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• I want to remind you all that in order to fight and win the war, it requires an expenditure of money that is commiserate with keeping a promise to our troops to make sure that they're well paid, well trained, well equipped.

  George W. Bush

  War, Fighting, Winning

  George W. Bush's Press Conference, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. December 15, 2003.

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