#troops

This is the year of Katrina and Iraq. How the war ends is more important than how it began. However you feel about the war, you have to be compassionate and loving towards our troops. ↗

— Geraldo Rivera

#began #compassionate #ends #feel #how

My mother was born in your state, Mr. Walter, and my mother was a Quaker, and my ancestors in the time of Washington baked bread for George Washington's troops when they crossed the Delaware, and my own father was a slave. ↗

— Paul Robeson

#baked #born #bread #crossed #delaware

Most of all, our troops from Alabama said they appreciate the care packages from folks back home. ↗

— Mike Rogers

#appreciate #back #care #folks #home

Our military is doing everything it can to equip Iraq's forces so our troops can come home as soon as possible, but we cannot leave until the job is done. ↗

— Mike Rogers

#come #doing #done #equip #everything

And, of course, in the Philippines there were so many thousands of Americans that were captured by the Japanese and held and who were rescued by Filipino Americans, or Filipinos I should say, and by U.S. troops near the close of the war. ↗

— Dana Rohrabacher

#close #course #filipino #held #i

Anyone who has to fight, even with the most modern weapons, against an enemy in complete command of the air, fights like a savage against modern European troops, under the same handicaps and with the same chances of success. ↗

— Erwin Rommel

#air #anyone #chances #command #complete

For the sake of the troops, for the love of the troops, we must not add yet another casualty to this war. We must not let truth be a casualty of this war. ↗

— Barbara Boxer

#another #casualty #love #must #sake

Native Americans had only stone and wooden weapons and no animals that could be ridden. Those military advantages repeatedly enabled troops of a few dozen mounted Spaniards to defeat Indian armies numbering in the thousands. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#armies #could #defeat #dozen #enabled

We have sent our troops to war without paying for it. Now, we are bringing them home without saying how we are paying for it. ↗

— Patty Murray

#home #how #now #our #paying

Cliches about supporting the troops are designed to distract from failed policies, policies promoted by powerful special interests that benefit from war, anything to steer the discussion away from the real reasons the war in Iraq will not end anytime soon. ↗

— Ron Paul

#anything #anytime #away #benefit #cliches