Norman Schwarzkopf
Norman Schwarzkopf
H. Norman Schwarzkopf Jr.was a United States Army general. While serving as Commander-in-Chief, United States Central Command, he led all coalition forces in the Persian Gulf War...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWar Hero
Date of Birth22 August 1934
CityTrenton, NJ
CountryUnited States of America
answer dead fathers mothers none shot soldiers
Of course, none of them was going to get shot at. None of them would have to answer to the mothers and fathers of dead soldiers and Marines.
chemical
There is nothing in those logs at all about chemical contamination of my troops,
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truly the best thing America has to offer the world.
assumed chemical definite far knew might production single therefore
We knew they had them, ... We had some very definite locations, particularly the production facilities... As far as the front-line ammo depot and where they might and might not have been located, we didn't know, and therefore we assumed every single one of them had chemical weapons.
air
The day we executed the air campaign, I said, "we gotcha!
portray regard tends totally
Carpet bombing tends to portray something that's totally indiscriminate, you know, en masse without regard to the target.
believe benefit nature wacko
I am an environmentalist, but I'm not a wacko environmentalist. I believe that mankind and nature can live side-by-side for the mutual benefit of both.
love
Hey, I'm not a politician. I'm a ham. I love to give speeches.
believe charge days good hunt lord
They say the good Lord doesn't charge you for the days you hunt and fish, and I believe that.
death
I'm not proud of killing, of being responsible for the death of a single person. I never will be.
call military moving village
Moving into an unoccupied village when there's no opposition, I don't call that a military victory.
hard leadership military shoot soldier
I've got to tell you what, the soldier doesn't fight very hard for a leader who is going to shoot him, okay, on his own whim. That's not what military leadership is all about.
people standing visualize
I can't even begin to visualize myself as a five-star general... When I think of the people who are five-star generals, I can't even see myself standing in their shadow.
declare fish size stop truth won
When I fish, I stop thinking about anything else. But truth be told, if you want to declare victories, I can tell you the fish have won a lot more than I have. It's interesting that something with a brain the size of a fish's can outsmart us humans, who think we are el supremo.