Tommy Franks Quotes
Quotations and aphorisms by Tommy Franks:
I had a hope that the Iraqis would embrace a new government, would establish a new Iraq very quickly, and, but I never had that as an expectation.
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We have learned the need to be flexible or to have flexible forces, agile forces, who can move quickly, secure themselves when they arrive in a location, assess the needs of a given mission, and move to that mission.
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I'm not a fan almost anywhere of announcing to the enemy of what I'm going to do.
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Probably we'll think of Bush in years to come as an American hero.
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I, for one, begin with intent. There is no question that, Saddam Hussein had intent to do harm to the Western alliance and to the United States of America.
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I remember when I was a private soldier. I remember the days when I was taken care of and when I was not taken care of.
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The military infrastructure grew me. My faith in God is important, my belief in my country is important, my relationship to my family is important, the things that Mom and Dad tell you growing up are important.
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If terrorists succeeded in using a weapon of mass destruction against the U.S. or one of our allies, it would likely have catastrophic consequences for our cherished republican form of government.
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No plan survives contact with the enemy.
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I think any time we lose people, it's a hard moment.
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No one hates war like a soldier hates war.
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We have learned that precision munitions go precisely where they're targeted to go. We've learned that the introduction of human beings in the equation, who can cause the precision munitions to go precisely where they should go, pays a huge dividend.
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If the United States is hit with a weapon of mass destruction that inflicts large casualties, the Constitution will likely be discarded in favor of a military form of government.
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America decided we were going to stand by and let Americans die at the hands of terrorists a long time ago.
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I'm a pretty serious Independent.
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I'm not a fan of what we call 'friendly fire' or 'blue on blue.' We don't want to have that.
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The Western world, the free world, loses what it cherishes most, and that is freedom and liberty we've seen for a couple of hundred years in this grand experiment that we call democracy.
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As I look at President Bush, I think he will ultimately be judged as a man of extremely high character.
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