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" I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war. "

Norman Schwarzkopf

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" The fun of fishing is catching 'em, not killing 'em. "

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" It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle. "

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" I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war. "

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" Particularly when you're dealing with very high ranking people, you know, you have to get their attention, they are used to, by their rank, of having their own way and doing their own thing and when it's necessary to all work together on something, sometimes you have to hit the mule between the eyes with a two by four to get its attention. "

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" War is a profane thing. "

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" I'm not proud of killing, of being responsible for the death of a single person. I never will be. "

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" 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. "

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" I do not want to be a pawn in a political campaign. "

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" Carpet bombing tends to portray something that's totally indiscriminate, you know, en masse without regard to the target. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" I can stand in a crystal stream without another human around me and cast all day long, and if I never catch a single fish, I can come home and still feel like I had a wonderful time. It's the being there that's important. "

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" 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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" Moving into an unoccupied village when there's no opposition, I don't call that a military victory. "

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" For the entire first part of my career, I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances. "

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" A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers. "

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" Nobody can ever pin you down when you speculate. "

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" Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion. "

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" 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. "

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" Unfortunately, if you've ever been in southern Georgia on the beaches in a lightning storm, if you're out there, you're in great, great danger, and you can be killed very, very quickly. "

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" It's nice to feel that you have a purpose. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" I've managed to convince my wife that somewhere in the Bible it says, 'Man cannot have too many shotguns and fishing poles.' "

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