Norman Schwarzkopf Quotes

• Seven months ago I could give a single command and 541,000 people would immediately obey it. Today I can’t get a plumber to come to my house.

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• I asked you to be the thunder and lightning of Desert Storm. You were all of that and more.

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• I don’t consider myself dovish and I certainly don’t consider myself hawkish. Maybe I would describe myself as owlish-that is wise enough to understand that you want to do everything possible to avoid war.

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• We are not going after Saddam Hussein. If I can eliminate his ability to communicate with his forces, I would be entirely satisfied with that result.

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• Well, unfortunately, I have always regretted the fact that I have a temper, but I also have, you know, have great love and respect for all of the people that have worked for me. I think like everything else, this is one of those things that has been blown out of proportion.

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• Particularly when you’re dealing with very high ranking people, you know, you have to get their attention, they are used to, by their rank, of having their own way and doing their own thing and when it’s necessary to all work together on something, sometimes you have to hit the mule between the eyes of the two by four to get its attention.

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• If it had been our intention to take Iraq, if it had been our intention to destroy the country, if it had been our intention to overrun the country, we could have done it unopposed.

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• Had we taken all of Iraq, we would have been like a dinosaur in the tar pit – we would still be there, and we, not the United Nations, would be bearing the costs of that occupation.

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• Had the United States and the United Kingdom gone on alone to capture Baghdad, under the provisions of the Geneva and Hague conventions we would have been considered occupying powers and therefore would have been responsible for all the costs of maintaining or restoring government, education and other services for the people of Iraq.

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• It’s nice to feel that you have a purpose.

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• But I would defy anyone to go back over the years and tell me anyone whose career I’ve ruined, anyone whom I’ve driven out of the service, anyone I’ve fired from a job.

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• It doesn’t take a hero to order men into battle.

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• If Saddam were to be replaced tomorrow he would probably be replaced with someone who’s just as bad or worse than he is.

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• I’m not a politician. I’d make a lousy politician.

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• I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.

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• I may have made my reputation as a general in the Army and I’m very proud of that. But I’ve always felt that I was more than one-dimensional.

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• Good generalship is a realization that… you’ve got to try and figure out how to accomplish your mission with a minimum loss of human life.

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• An awful lot has been written about my temper.

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• You can’t help but… with 20/20An awful lot has been written about my temper., ‘Look, had we done something different, we probably wouldn’t be facing what we are facing today.’

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• What is postwar Iraq going to look like, with the Kurds and the Sunnis and the Shiites? That’s a huge question, to my mind.

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Norman Schwarzkopf (39)

Birth:	22nd August, 1934
Death:	27th December, 2012
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Soldier, Writer, Army Officer

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