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
iraq mind looks
What is postwar Iraq going to look like, with the Kurds and the Sunnis and the Shiites? That's a huge question, to my mind.
looks done today
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.'
judging enemy looks
Judge your enemy based upon capabilities, not intent, you have to look at the enemy and really almost make a worst case call every time.
thinking want looks
Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.
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,
america best offer truly
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.