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John Abizaid

"Being on the run, having to change the way that you do business, being unable to plan in a safe and secure environment, always looking over your shoulder, knowing that some day somebody's going to knock on your door and it's going to be your last."

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"Being on the run, having to change the way that you do business, being unable to plan in a safe and secure environment, always looking over your shoulder, knowing that some day somebody's going to knock on your door and it's going to be your last."

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"The only way to change the world is to quit thinking it's a job for Superman. Real power lies in your own hands."

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"If the tranquillity is killing you, seek for the storm to save your life!"

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"There are no real start-overs, only start-from-heres."

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"The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide."

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"Like birds leaving the dangerous places man must also leave his dangerous ideas!"

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"The fate of every unusual thing is to be a usual thing quickly!"

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"There is nothing so stable as change."

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"I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road."

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"To make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from."

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"In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists."

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"Undoubtedly, there are members of the former regime that are cooperating in some fashion and then there are extremists that are within Iraq that are cooperating with them."
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"Clearly the Secretary of Defense, my boss, would like nothing better than to get Osama bin Laden and to get... to ensure the complete defeat of al-Qaida, because we know that al-Qaida is planning operations against the United States even as we speak here."
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"It's clear to me now that we've got to reach out to the Arab Sunni community in particular in an effort to cause some moderate political activity to take place so they join the future of Iraq."
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"You know as well as I do that counterinsurgency is a very nuanced type of military operation."
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"Well, the hardest thing to do, as we know from our own experience on 9/11 is protect everything all the time."
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"It's also natural in that part of the world to blame what people view as the... as the most important authority in the region, and that currently is the United States of America."
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"Our forces will not be on the sidelines."
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"We'll try to include Iraqi officers in our staffs. We will do everything we can to empower Iraqi security forces to stand up on their own and operate where they can alone."
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"But all that having been said, you can't, in a city of a million people like Karbala, or 5 million like Baghdad, you can't be in all places at all times."
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"But clearly the fact that we've gone from zero Iraqi security forces on duty in May to up to 200,000 today is an enormous accomplishment, but it's not enough."
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