"I remember serving in Vietnam in that war,……" — William Eldridge Odom
"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 the U.S. wanted to debate it that way."
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17 Quotes by William Eldridge Odom
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Second, recent polls over there show that the majority of Iraqis want us to leave precipitously.
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Acts of terror have never brought down liberal democracies. Acts of parliament have closed a few.
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In reality, I don't think that many of the policies we've attempted to apply to deal with it are going…
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As many critics have pointed, out, terrorism is not an enemy. It is a tactic. Because the United States itself…
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Military officers from different countries, when they meet each other, tend to sort of fall in love, become mutual admiration…
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In World War II in Germany, we had a ration for one U.S. soldier, or one allied soldier for every…
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Once we destroyed the Saddam regime, we knew there was going to be a civil war.
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I will make a general statement that we have not had anything like the policy of holding people in high…
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I've decided that the political context is such that the only way reform will finally come about in the Russian…
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To say that you now trust the Russian military command and control system because some Russian general told you from…
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While people out there on the spot certainly have to be held accountable for what they've done personally, the chain…
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So the idea that you could put Kurds, Shiite Arabs, and Sunni Arabs in a nice, liberal, federal system in…
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My father was a Party member and he was a pretty high rank military officer under the colonel, junior colonel,…
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We lived, until I was 12 or so, in communal apartment with five different families and the same kitchen, in…
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The bust of Colonel Sanders stands as a monument to cruelty and has no place in the Kentucky state Capitol.
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The trouble with military rule is that every colonel or general is soon full of ambition. The navy takes over…
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Colonel Parker asked Henry and me to come to Elvis' suite and have breakfast. There were at least five policemen…
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Ordered that of the Indians and Half-breeds sentenced to be hanged by the military commission, composed of Colonel Crooks, Lt.…
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People ask me from time to time what it was like growing up with Henry Fonda as my father. I…
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I think of [street food] as the antidote to fast food; it's the clear alternative to the king, the clown…
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The most interesting acquaintanceship I have struck up here is that of Colonel Lapinski. He is without doubt the cleverest…
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Bottled, was he?" Said Colonel Bantry, with an Englishman's sympathy for alcoholic excess. "Oh, well, can't judge a fellow by…
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The Republican Party is a friend of Social Security the way Colonel Sanders was a friend of chickens.
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Our quarrel is not with Egypt, still less with the Arab world. It is with Colonel Nasser. He has shown…
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