#troops

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I don't run democracy. I train troops to defend democracy and I happen to be their surrogate father and mother as well as their commanding general.


Alfred M. Gray


#defend #democracy #father #general #happen

It's a tough time my friends. We need to make sacrifices to ensure our troops have the tools they need in order to get the job done. This budget will help us win the War on Terror.


Dennis Hastert


#done #ensure #friends #get #help

As costs mount, in lives and dollars, it is natural to second guess, but one lesson I hope we have learned is that the U.S. cannot go it alone in a policy that leaves American troops taking all the risk and American taxpayers paying all of the costs.


John Spratt


#american #american taxpayers #american troops #cannot #costs

Three big assumptions proved wrong: one, that the Iraqi people would welcome us as liberators; two, that oil would soon pay for Iraqi's rebuilding; and, three, that we have plenty of troops, weapons, and equipment for the postwar situation.


John Spratt


#big #equipment #iraqi #iraqi people #liberators

It has been my aim throughout present operations to afford the greatest amount of protection to life and property interests, and troops have been stationed accordingly.


George Crook


#afford #aim #amount #been #greatest

Wherever we halted we were surrounded by wandering troops of Bedouins.


Richard Francis Burton


#surrounded #troops #wandering #were #wherever

We must remain steadfast in our commitment to our troops, and to those fighting for a free and democratic Iraq because freedom makes our country and the world a safer place.


Chris Chocola


#commitment #country #democratic #democratic iraq #fighting

A little before noon I sent orders to all my batteries to open fire through the streets or at any points where the troops were seen about the city, as a diversion in favor of Jackson.


James Longstreet


#any #batteries #before #city #diversion

Bad as was being shot by some of our own troops in the battle of the Wilderness, - that was an honest mistake, one of the accidents of war, - being shot at, since the war, by many officers, was worse.


James Longstreet


#bad #battle #being #honest #many

Before my troops reached the little city, and before the people of Fredericksburg knew that any part of the Confederate army was near, there was great excitement over the demand for surrender.


James Longstreet


#army #before #city #confederate #demand