#troops

The presence of American troops is fueling the insurgency in Iraq, as acknowledged by General Casey and numerous other experts, and is helping terrorist recruiters build their numbers across the globe. ↗

— John Conyers

#across #american #american troops #build #casey

Make no mistake, our troops will be in Afghanistan and Iraq for a long time. ↗

— Jerry Costello

#iraq #long #long time #make #make no mistake

Gandhi has more recently recognized the need for continuance of British, American and Chinese efforts in India and has suggested that these troops might remain by agreement with some new Indian Government. ↗

— Stafford Cripps

#american #british #chinese #continuance #efforts

I'm going to vote in support of the president of the United States in keeping the troops in Iraq until the president and our military is convinced that the mission is complete. ↗

— John Culberson

#convinced #going #i #iraq #keeping

To the Parisians, and especially to the children, all Americans are now 'heros du cinema.' This is particularly disconcerting to sensitive war correspondents, if any, aware, as they are, that these innocent thanks belong to those American combat troops who won the beachhead and then made the breakthrough. There are few such men in Paris. ↗

— A. J. Liebling

#american #any #aware #belong #breakthrough

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

I have repeatedly said, when asked, that if the stories about me helped inspired our troops and rally a nation, then perhaps there was some good. ↗

— Jessica Lynch

#asked #good #helped #i #inspired

A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him. ↗

— Douglas MacArthur

#command #general #good #him #his