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
asked country leave
They didn't want to go to war, they didn't want to leave their families, but when their country asked them to, they did, because they thought it was the right thing to do,
country destroy full iraqis kuwait remember saw somebody tragedy war
I saw Kuwait many times before the war. I remember it as a beautiful place, full of very nice people, and it's a tragedy to see that somebody could set out to deliberately destroy a country the way the Iraqis have.
country hunting fishing
What people don't understand is this is something that we only have in America. There is no other country in the world where the ordinary citizen can go out and enjoy hunting and fishing. There's no other nation in the world where that happens. And it's very much a part of our heritage.
country iraq done
If it had been our intention to take Iraq, if it had been our intention to destroy the country, if it had been our intention to overrun the country, we could have done it unopposed.
country commitment army
From the time I was twelve years old until I retired last year at the age of fifty-seven, the Army was my life. I loved commanding soldiers and being around people who had made a serious commitment to serve their country.
air battle cut eight force four last mount operations reports
The Navy's battle force in the last eight years has been cut by one third. And the Air Force reports that it is now called on to mount four times as many operations with a force that has been cut by 40 percent,
chemical
There is nothing in those logs at all about chemical contamination of my troops,
gear protective sent time troops
So the alarms went off all the time over there. When they did, we put our troops in protective gear and then we sent in our most sophisticated equipment.
inspection people team
You need that U.N. inspection team in there on the ground. They're the people that can find it and ferret it out,
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.
air
The day we executed the air campaign, I said, "we gotcha!
facing help
You can't help but... with 20/20 hindsight, go back and say, 'Look, had we done something different, we probably wouldn't be facing what we are facing today.'
absolutely announced chemical found huge loved
There were no reports, absolutely none, zero, ... I would have loved to have announced that we found huge caches of chemical weapons.
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.