William Eldridge Odom Quotes

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• Second, recent polls over there show that the majority of Iraqis want us to leave precipitously.
• Acts of terror have never brought down liberal democracies. Acts of parliament have closed a few.
• In reality, I don't think that many of the policies we've attempted to apply to deal with it are going to have any serious effect.
• As many critics have pointed, out, terrorism is not an enemy. It is a tactic. Because the United States itself has a long record of…
• Military officers from different countries, when they meet each other, tend to sort of fall in love, become mutual admiration societies, at the expense of…
• I remember serving in Vietnam in that war, and many of us at the major Lieutenant Colonel, colonel level were frustrated that no one in…
• In World War II in Germany, we had a ration for one U.S. soldier, or one allied soldier for every twenty inhabitants. The ratio in…
• Once we destroyed the Saddam regime, we knew there was going to be a civil war.
• I will make a general statement that we have not had anything like the policy of holding people in high office responsible for their acts…
• I've decided that the political context is such that the only way reform will finally come about in the Russian military is that the deterioration…
• To say that you now trust the Russian military command and control system because some Russian general told you from the bottom of his heart…
• While people out there on the spot certainly have to be held accountable for what they've done personally, the chain of command responsibility for this…
• So the idea that you could put Kurds, Shiite Arabs, and Sunni Arabs in a nice, liberal, federal system in Iraq in a short amount…
• Firing off 1,000 or 500 or 2,000 nuclear warheads on a few minutes' consideration has always struck me as an absurd way to go to…
• I have never belonged to a party. I don't have party affiliation.
• The presidents I served under don't have anything to do with my politics.
• The whole notion of land property rights in the Arab world is different from that in Europe.

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