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"We should have done more damage to the Iraqi forces before they withdrew from the Kuwaiti theater."
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"A minor request," said Mazer. "Let's not refer to it as the training cage. 'Training' sounds laborious and regimented. Soldiers groan at the word. These men joined the IF to fight, sir. Let's call it the Battle Room."
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"From the ship all things were taken out, so that the clothes which I took with me on my back I only had."
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"Being the commander of a Ruminarii war vessel meant that he had risen to the rank by means of assassination and ruthlessness and was therefore implicitly distrusted by the Tidhii Mah'k'hai (Naval Command, that is The Queen Of Suth Herself.) He was expected to mete out, in generous portions, brutality to conquered subjects and to act swiftly and mercilessly in dealing with alien encounters. In short, he was expected to be a bad example."
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"We're quickly moving to the point where we will have no military bases in the Northeast, and this undermines support for the military. We are a nation of citizen soldiers."
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"We should have done more damage to the Iraqi forces before they withdrew from the Kuwaiti theater."
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"JAG is an acronym for the Judge Advocate General, which is the judicial system of the military."
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"The American soldier is quick in adapting himself to a new mode of living. Outfits which have been here only three days have dug vast networks of ditches three feet deep in the bare brown earth. They have rigged up a light here and there with a storage battery."
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"The pertinent question: if Americans did not want these wars should they have been compelled to fight them?"
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"Military organization, like religious organization, can be seen as a paradigm of organization in general."
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"We have got thousands of nuclear weapons in order to achieve deterrence."
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"We should have done more damage to the Iraqi forces before they withdrew from the Kuwaiti theater."
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"Long-term, we must figure out a way that the Kurdish territory within Iraq operates with a certain amount of autonomy so that they feel comfortable and safe going back."
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"Before we give you billions more, we want to know what you've done with the trillion you've got."
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"There's a certain amount of sympathy here for the Bush administration's problem, which is they would like to get rid of Saddam Hussein and they would like to have the Kurds autonomous."
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"We ought to be providing protective sanctuaries for the Kurdish rebels. That means finding some places where they can come and to which we will then be able to provide food and water and medical help."
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"That was not part of the U.N. resolution; it was not part of the mandate to go on to Baghdad and, frankly, if we had gone into Baghdad and pushed Saddam Hussein off, we would have inherited an even bigger mess than the mess we inherited with the refugee problem."
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