Airborne Quote by Chuck Hagel Download Open image “You can't just drop the 82nd Airborne into Baghdad and it will all be over.” — Chuck Hagel ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Airborne Baghdad
Our military superiority is so great - it's far greater than it was in the Gulf War, and the Gulf War was over in 100 hours after we bombed for 43 days. And so now they can bomb for a couple of days and then just roll into Baghdad... The odds are there's going to be a war and it's… — William J. Clinton Copy Share
With 300 Marines you could probably take over Iraq if you wanted to and get rid of ISIS completely. — Marcus Luttrell Copy Share Image
It's unclear how air strikes on our part can succeed unless the Iraqi army is willing to fight, and that's uncertain given the fact… — Carl Levin Copy Share Image
You can't carpet bomb ISIS if you don't have planes and bombs to attack them with. And if we continue those cuts that we're… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
I don't think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that's now history. — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
It's easy to say, let's go in and get the bad guys. But you have a divided country of Sunnis and Shias. The United States goes and takes action there on behalf of the Iraqi government. You've got Iran coming in and saying we're going to stand with (Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri) al-Maliki, so now we're aligning ourselves with Iran,… — Tulsi Gabbard Copy Share
It would be a tragedy if the remarkable international coalition against terrorism, successfully marshalled in the aftermath of 11 September, were to fragment over… — Charles Kennedy Copy Share Image
We have a duty to fight ISIS; air operations alone will not defeat ISIS. — Ryan Zinke Copy Share Image
You don't defeat a terrorist network that operates in eighty countries by occupying Iraq. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
When you have a script where we say we are just going to do air operations alone within the territory of Iraq, what happens… — Ryan Zinke Copy Share Image
A troop surge in Baghdad would put more American troops at risk to address a problem that is not a military problem. — Norm Coleman Copy Share Image
It's - getting Assad out is not the only priority. And so what we're trying to do is obviously defeat ISIS. — Nikki Haley Copy Share Image
When you're dealing in situations that are uncontrollable and combustible, you try to stabilize the situation as quickly as you can and then work… — Chuck Hagel Copy Share Image
Closing Guantanamo Bay is not a military solution. The closing of that prison, which I support, I supported it when I was in the… — Chuck Hagel Copy Share Image
Desperate men do desperate things when you take hope away. And that's where the Palestinians are today. — Chuck Hagel Copy Share Image
The president of the United States is the commander in chief, and the people who work with him at the National Security Council are… — Chuck Hagel Copy Share Image
In a general way, if one cannot attribute to the Jew the whole responsibility of the situation, economic, political, and social, by which Algeria… — Chuck Hagel Copy Share Image
No one individual vote, no one individual quote or no one individual statement defines me, my beliefs, or my record. — Chuck Hagel Copy Share Image
We live in a world of absolute immediacy. It is an interconnected, combustible world, where technology and many other actions have given nonstate actors… — Chuck Hagel Copy Share Image
Too often in Washington we tend to see foreign policy as an abstraction, with little understanding of what we are committing our country to:… — Chuck Hagel Copy Share Image
Because we all know one of the main factors of war is the element of surprise. And what could be more surprising than the… — Eddie Izzard Copy Share Image
So now it turns out that Thomas Jefferson was having sex with Sally Hemings while serving in the 101st Airborne during the Vietnam War. — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
You might think that's an exaggeration but believe me, if you leave twin two-year-olds alone in your living room, at some point a cow… — Ray Romano Copy Share Image
“Lay down Your tired & weary head my friend. We have wept too long Night is falling And you are only sleeping We have… — José N. Harris Copy Share Image
When the photographer Philippe Halsman said, 'Jump,' no one asked how high. People simply pushed off or leapt up to the extent that physical… — Philippe Halsman Copy Share Image
I was with the 101st Airborne Division in Iraq, really in the middle of nowhere, about 80 miles south of Baghdad. And it was… — Rick Atkinson Copy Share Image
When you ask a person to jump, his attention is mostly directed toward the act of jumping and the mask falls so that the… — Philippe Halsman Copy Share Image
We all yearn to fly. We are creatures of longing. We do not need to [physically fly] to be airborne. What I call the… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image