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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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There's no doubt in my mind that whichever commander ordered the blowing up of Kamisiyah did so in following the instructions that he had received.

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I am an environmentalist, but I'm not a wacko environmentalist. I believe that mankind and nature can live side-by-side for the mutual benefit of both.

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They say the good Lord doesn't charge you for the days you hunt and fish, and I believe that.

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I saw Kuwait many times before the war. I remember it as a beautiful place, full of very nice people, and it's a tragedy to see that somebody could set out to deliberately destroy a country the way the Iraqis have.

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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.

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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.

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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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I think any student of military strategy would tell you that in order to attack a position, you should have a ratio of approximately 3 to 1 in favor of the attacker.

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Soldier

Born: August 22nd, 1934

Died: December 27th, 2012

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