Troops Quotes - Page 9

• US forces have been increased [in Afghanistan ] from some 21,000 to about 31,000 over the past two years and a number of coalition countries have also increased their forces, there still are not sufficient troops.

  David Petraeus

  Country, Past, Two

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• The question is always how you get the number of troops needed. They do not have to be coalition forces. We also have to expand the training program for the Afghan National Army and the national police, in particular. and Defense Secretary Robert Gates has already announced support for a significant increase in the Afghan army.

  David Petraeus

  Army, Numbers, Support

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• It took the United States Army to get one Negro into the University of Mississippi; it took troops to get a few Negroes in the white schools at Little Rock and another dozen places in the South.

  Malcolm X

  School, Army, Rocks

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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• Let's talk... we have indications, let me just finish this point, because how can use WMD while your troops are only 100 meters away from it ? Is it logical ? It doesn't happen. It cannot be used like this.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Wmd, Use, Logical

  Source: legrandsoir.info

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• Certainly we must combine forces . South African troops are within the country.We raised this matter with Mrs [Margaret] Thatcher and Lord [Peter] Carrington when we met them and we wanted to get from them a definite commitment that they were going to get the South African troops out.

  Robert Mugabe

  Country, Commitment, Matter

  Source: www.revolutionarycommunist.org

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• There is the possibility that these troops will be used against us if we are victorious. There is also the possibility that in fact the South Africans are there at the invitation of Britain, because Britain is hesitating to remove them. Hence there is a need for us to combine forces and demand through all political platforms, through all media, the withdrawal of South African troops and action, definite action, by Britain to get those South African troops out.

  Robert Mugabe

  Media, Political, Needs

  Source: www.revolutionarycommunist.org

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• As always, many of our troops are far from home this [Christmas] time of year, and their families are serving and sacrificing right along with them. Their courage and dedication allow the rest of us to enjoy this season. That's why we've tried to serve them as well as they've served this country.

  Michelle Obama

  Country, Home, Sacrifice

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• The reality is that Qatar is an ally of the United States. There are a significant number of American troops that are stationed in Qatar. What we did for them and do for them is security for their facilities.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Reality, Qatar, Numbers

  "Politico called Clinton's Sunday-show laugh "calculated" and a 'cackle,' but Giuliani's laugh 'good-natured'" by Kathleen Henehan, www.mediamatters.org. December 11, 2007.

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• When the US withdrew their troops from Somalia, I recall making a comment that [in] the way the peacekeepers had been withdrawn from Somalia, the impression had been given that the easiest way to unravel a peacekeeping operation is to kill a few soldiers.

  Kofi Annan

  Soldier, Way, Somalia

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• I mean a real police state just to get a token recognition of a law. It take, it took, I think, 15,000 troops and 6 million dollars to put one negro in the University of Mississippi. That's a police action, police state action.

  Malcolm X

  Real, Mean, Thinking

  Source: nyx.uky.edu

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• We know definitively that Al-Qaida isn't all over Afghanistan anymore. According to CIA estimates, there are less than a hundred Al-Qaida members in the entire country. Most of them are in Pakistan. So, it's hard for me to understand why we're still fighting there and sending in more and more troops. I would get out of Afghanistan as quickly as possible.

  Jimmy Carter

  Country, Fighting, Pakistan

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• Our troops are in Burundi. We were requested by African countries who said, look, the United Nations is not moving on this matter, can you people deploy people, so we can move Burundi forward.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Country, Moving, People

  Source: www.gov.za

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• We would take the same position as the majority of the world about this, including this issue where Prime Minister [Ariel] Sharon made a commitment to pull Israeli troops out of Gaza.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Commitment, Issues, World

  Source: www.gov.za

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• Troops must be fed with ammunition and so on but also with information, with images, with visual intelligence. Without these elements troops cannot perform their duties properly. This is what is meant by the logistics of perception.

  Paul Virilio

  Perception, Information, Elements

  Source: ctheory.net

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• Currently, the United States has troops in dozens of countries and is actively fighting in Iraq, Syria, Libya, and Yemen (with the occasional drone strike in Pakistan). In addition, the United States is pledged to defend 28 countries in NATO. It is unwise to expand the monetary and military obligations of the United States given the burden of our $20 trillion debt.

  Rand Paul

  Country, Military, Fighting

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Women are part of peace keeping troops in countries like Liberia.

  Zainab Salbi

  Country

  "'War Is Just a Microcosm of Peace' – an Interview With Zainab Salbi". Interview with Eva Fernndez Ortiz, www.truth-out.org. June 7, 2011.

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• I hate when comedians use Performed For The Troops as one of there credits before they go up on stage.

  Felipe Esparza

  Hate, Comedian, Use

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• I wish black people had a flag they could put into the ground, like when the troops stormed Iwo Jima.

  J. B. Smoove

  Iwo Jima, People, Black

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• If our commanders on the ground say we need more troops, I will send them. But our commanders tell me they have the number of troops they need to do their job. Sending more Americans would undermine our strategy of encouraging Iraqis to take the lead in this fight. And sending more Americans would suggest that we intend to stay forever, when we are, in fact, working for the day when Iraq can defend itself and we can leave.

  George W. Bush

  Jobs, Fighting, Iraq

  President Bush's Fort Bragg Speech, North Carolina, www.nbcnews.com. 2005.

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• We owe our troops the opportunity to serve in the best-planned, best-equipped, and best-led military force in the world, and we owe them the peace of mind that comes from knowing that they and their families will be taken care of if they sacrifice life, limb or the ability to sleep without war's nightmares. We owe them not just thanks and best wishes, but action, and action in our nation's capital.

  John F. Kerry

  Military, War, Taken

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• We need to embed our forces - our troops inside the Iraqi military. We need to arm directly the Kurds. And all of that has to be done in concert with the Arab nations.

  Jeb Bush

  Military, Needs, Done

  "5th Republican debate transcript, annotated: Who said what and what it meant". 2016 presidential debate in Las Vegas, Nevada, www.washingtonpost.com. December 15, 2015.

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• I said that we needed to have people on the ground, troops on the ground in a coalition similar to what we had in the first Gulf War.

  John Kasich

  War, People, Firsts

  John Kasich's remarks during the CNN-Facebook Republican Presidential Second Debate at the Venetian Las Vegas hosted by Wolf Blitzer, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. December 16, 2015.

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• Using overwhelming air power to utterly and completely destroy ISIS. To put things in perspective, in the first Persian Gulf War, we launched roughly 1,100 air attacks a day. We carpet bombed them for 36 days, saturation bombing, after which our troops went in and in a day and a half mopped up what was left of the Iraqi army.

  Ted Cruz

  War, Army, Air

  Republican Presidential Debate, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. December 16, 2015.

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• You would carpet bomb where ISIS is, not a city, but the location of the troops. You use air power directed - and you have embedded special forces to direction the air power. But the object isn't to level a city. The object is to kill the ISIS terrorists.

  Ted Cruz

  Air, Isis, Cities

  Republican Debate in Las Vegas, time.com. December 15, 2015.

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• I know Vladimir Putin. He respects strength. He lied to our president's [Barack Obama] face; didn't both to tell him about warplanes and troops going into Syria. We need to speak to him from a position of strength.

  Carly Fiorina

  President, Needs, Faces

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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