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
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.
catch garbage obliged people renewable throw
Fish are a renewable resource, and one of the problems we've had is people feel obliged to catch the limit, then throw 'em in the garbage can.
attacks avoid guys lives people throwing
I am not one of these guys who is just going to waste American lives by throwing people needlessly in frontal attacks up against the enemy if I can avoid doing that.
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,
government iraq people
Had the United States and the United Kingdom gone on alone to capture Baghdad, under the provisions of the Geneva and Hague conventions we would have been considered occupying powers and therefore would have been responsible for all the costs of maintaining or restoring government, education and other services for the people of Iraq.
thinking great-love people
Well, unfortunately, I have always regretted the fact that I have a temper, but I also have, you know, have great love and respect for all of the people that have worked for me. I think like everything else, this is one of those things that has been blown out of proportion.
giving people leader
To be an effective leader, you have to have a manipulative streak - you have to figure out the people working for you and give each tasks that will take advantage of his strength.
eye two people
Particularly when you're dealing with very high ranking people, you know, you have to get their attention, they are used to, by their rank, of having their own way and doing their own thing and when it's necessary to all work together on something, sometimes you have to hit the mule between the eyes of the two by four to get its attention.
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.