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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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" With a chemical alarm, you're going to build one that is oversensitive because you would rather the alarm go off and give you a false alarm than to err on the other side. "

Norman Schwarzkopf

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" All you have to do is hold your first soldier who is dying in your arms, and have that terribly futile feeling that I can't do anything about it... Then you understand the horror of war. "

" 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. "

" War's a profanity because, let's face it, you've got two opposing sides trying to settle their differences by killing as many of each other as they can. "

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

" I've got to tell you what, the soldier doesn't fight very hard for a leader who is going to shoot him, okay, on his own whim. That's not what military leadership is all about. "

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

" 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. "

" If Saddam were to be replaced tomorrow he would probably be replaced with someone who's just as bad or worse than he is. "

Norman Schwarzkopf

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" I am not one of these guys who is just going to waste American lives by throwing people needlessly in frontal attacks up against the enemy if I can avoid doing that. "

" Tanks being deployed far forward is an indication of offensive action; tanks in depth is an indication of defensive action. "

" An awful lot has been written about my temper. "

" Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for. "

" Well, unfortunately, I have always regretted the fact that I have a temper, but I also have, you know, have great love and respect for all of the people that have worked for me. I think like everything else, this is one of those things that has been blown out of proportion. "

" Someone once asked, 'What is the difference between me and Saddam Hussein?' The answer is, 'I have a conscience and he doesn't.' "

Norman Schwarzkopf

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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. "

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

" I am living proof that if you catch prostate cancer early, it can be reduced to a temporary inconvenience, and you can go back to a normal life. "

" Hey, I'm not a politician. I'm a ham. I love to give speeches. "

" 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. "

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

" What people don't understand is this is something that we only have in America. There is no other country in the world where the ordinary citizen can go out and enjoy hunting and fishing. There's no other nation in the world where that happens. And it's very much a part of our heritage. "

" Generals aren't in the business of commenting on the correctness or incorrectness of the President's decisions. Anybody who thinks he should be able to do that ought to be fired on the spot. "

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

" I do hunt, and I do fish, and I don't apologize to anybody for hunting and fishing. "

" What is postwar Iraq going to look like, with the Kurds and the Sunnis and the Shiites? That's a huge question, to my mind. "

Norman Schwarzkopf

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances. "