Troops Quotes - Page 6

• The solution to Iraq - an Iraq that can govern itself, sustain itself and defend itself - is more than a military mission. Precisely the reason why I sent more troops into Baghdad.

  George W. Bush

  Military, Iraq, Baghdad

  "President Bush Delivers Remarks on Iraq and Answers Questions From the Media". Remarks & Q&A, www.washingtonpost.com. April 3, 2007.

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• Good commanders look after their troops, and good troops look after their commanders.

  Harvey Mackay

  Leadership, Looks, Commanders

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• Our top priority is our troops, who are making the extraordinary effort to fulfill the mission they have been given. Democrats will work with this Administration to better define that mission and a realistic expectation of success in Iraq.

  Jim Clyburn

  Iraq, Expectations, Effort

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• Without any coherent international blueprint the White House has bombed its way around the globe, while dropping troops far and wide for ill-defined peacemaking duties. This policy has gutted the American military which now must be rebuilt.

  Tom DeLay

  Military, White, House

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• You can support the troops but not the president.

  Tom DeLay

  Support, President, Support The Troops

  "War and Peace: Falling Through the Partisan Looking Glass" by Lyn Davis Lear, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 15, 2005.

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• The infantryman slithers in the mud, while many teams of horses are needed to drag each gun forward. All wheeled vehicles sink up to their axles in the slime. Even tractors can only move with great difficulty. A large portion of our heavy artillery was soon stuck fast... The strain that all this caused our already exhausted troops can perhaps be imagined.

  Gunther Blumentritt

  Horse, Military, Team

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• The Iraqi troops and the Iraqi fighters are in control of all the places, as we have witnessed, no big change in that. We are fighting against them.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Military, Fighting

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• These mercenaries, I swear by God, those who are still in Washington, they have sent their troops to be burned.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Military, Burned

  "Sahaf: U.S. troops will be burned". www.cnn.com. April 7, 2003.

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• Australian troops had, at Milne Bay, inflicted on the Japanese their first undoubted defeat on land. Some of us may forget that, of all the allies, it was the Australians who first broke the invincibility of the Japanese army.

  William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim

  Military, Army, Land

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• Jan 1899 You must aim at the Staff College, but for the love of God never become a professional Staff Officer. Never lose touch with the troops. Remember that you serve the troops and it is the troops who matter. They are the folk who win victories, take care of your men and they will never let you down.

  Richard Meinertzhagen

  Military, Winning, College

  Richard Meinertzhagen (1964). “Diary of a Black Sheep”, Edinburgh, Oliver & Boyd 1964

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• I oppose U.S. military intervention in Iraq. I believe that we should not send troops or engage in air strikes-our nation's military involvement needs to be over. The United States has already spent billions of dollars in Iraq while our nation has endured a crumbling infrastructure, cuts to our social programs, a lack of investment in job training and creation, and sadly, a failure to take care of our veterans. Let's focus our resources at home. Over 4000 men and women have sacrificed their lives for Iraq. That is enough.

  Janice Hahn

  Jobs, Military, Believe

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• The latest developments in Iraq are deeply troubling, but as the United States considers military and diplomatic responses to the actions of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) action, we should be clear that U.S. troops on the ground cannot go a million miles near a sectarian civil war-it's simply not an option.

  Sean Patrick Maloney

  Military, War, Islamic

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• Any outside use of military power would at best furnish a temporary respite from the processes that we see playing out. We know that because we have been through all this before. The "surge" of several years ago was supposed to provide space and time for Iraqi political interests to work out their differences. 30,000 additional U.S. troops failed to lead to any working out of those differences, and the outcome is the mess we see today.

  Paul R. Pillar

  Military, Years, Iraq

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• It will take time to eradicate a cancer like Isil. And any time we take military action, there are risks involved - especially to the servicemen and women who carry out these missions. But I want the American people to understand how this effort will be different from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. It will not involve American combat troops fighting on foreign soil.

  Barack Obama

  Cancer, Military, War

  Statement by the President on ISIL, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. September 10, 2014.

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• Terrorize the jam like troops in Pakistan, swingin' through your town like your neighbourhood spiderman!

  Inspectah Deck

  Rap, Pakistan, Jam

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• The ultimate in disposing one's troops is to be without ascertainable shape. Then the most penetrating spies cannot pry in nor can the wise lay plans against you.

  Sun Tzu

  Wise, Art, War

  Sun Tzu, Shang Yang (1997). “The Art of War”, p.32, Wordsworth Editions

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• The skillful leader subdues the enemy's troops without any fighting.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Fighting

  Sun Tzu, Julius Caesar, Einhard, Niccolò Machiavelli, Carl von Clausewitz (2016). “Strategy Six Pack”, p.11, Lulu.com

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• This fight has nothing to do with soldierly gallantry or principles of the Geneva Convention. If the fight against the partisans is not waged with the most brutal means, we will shortly reach the point where the available forces are insufficient to control the area. It is therefore not only justified, but it is the duty of the troops to use all means without restriction, even against women and children, so long as it ensures success.

  Wilhelm Keitel

  Children, War, Mean

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• Certainly I shall use the police, and most ruthlessly, whenever the German people are hurt. But I refuse the notion that the police are protective troops for Jewish stores. No, the police protect whoever comes into Germany legitimately, but it does not exist for the purpose of protecting Jewish money-lenders.

  Hermann Goring

  Hurt, People, History

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• We once discussed which were the cleanest troops in the trenches, taken by nationalities. We agreed on a descending-order like this: English and German Protestants; Northern Irish, Welsh and Canadians; Irish and German Catholics; Scots; Mohammedan Indians; Algerians; Portugese; Belgians; French. We put the Belgians and French there for spite; they could not have been dirtier than the Algerians and the Portugese.

  Robert Graves

  War, Taken, Order

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• Don't believe stories which you see in the papers about troops asking as a special privilege not to be relieved. We stick it, at all costs if necessary, as long as ordered, but everyone's glad to hand over to someone else. And anyone who says he enjoys this kind of thing is either a liar or a madman.

  Harry Yoxall

  War, Liars, Believe

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• I don't think our troops ought to be used for what's called nation building.

  George W. Bush

  War, Thinking, Building

  Presidential Debate in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, October 11, 2000.

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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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• A tale is told of a man in Paris during the upheaval in 1948, who saw a friend marching after a crowd toward the barricades. Warning him that these could not be held against the troops, that he had better keep way, he received this reply, " I must follow them. I am their leader."

  Abbott Lawrence Lowell

  Leadership, Men, Paris

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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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