Tommy Franks
Tommy Franks
Tommy Ray Franksis a retired general in the United States Army. His last Army post was as the Commander of the U.S. Central Command, overseeing U.S. military operations in a 25-country region, including the Middle East. Franks succeeded General Anthony Zinni to this position on July 6, 2000 and served until his retirement on 7 July 2003...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWar Hero
Date of Birth17 June 1945
CountryUnited States of America
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Whose fault was 9/11? It was all us.
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We have been able to watch a variety of terrain and undertake review of a whole variety of imagery and talk to an awful lot of people over time, ... Factually, those are the places right now we have been led to pay very close attention to.
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We will find the facts we need to find, and we'll use the lessons that we learn from Cole to provide the best possible force protection for our troops in one of the most dangerous regions of the world,
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We're going to continue to engage Afghan authorities on this matter in order to help seek accountability for any violations that may have occurred.
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It is a bit early for us to say that this will establish the land bridge,
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The question is do we fight them over there -- or do we fight them here,
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I'm not a fan of what we call 'friendly fire' or 'blue on blue.' We don't want to have that.
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I had a hope that the Iraqis would embrace a new government, would establish a new Iraq very quickly, and, but I never had that as an expectation.
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I think any time we lose people, it's a hard moment.
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We have learned the need to be flexible or to have flexible forces, agile forces, who can move quickly, secure themselves when they arrive in a location, assess the needs of a given mission, and move to that mission.
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We have learned that precision munitions go precisely where they're targeted to go. We've learned that the introduction of human beings in the equation, who can cause the precision munitions to go precisely where they should go, pays a huge dividend.
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If the United States is hit with a weapon of mass destruction that inflicts large casualties, the Constitution will likely be discarded in favor of a military form of government.
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We'll see how it goes over the days ahead as that camp is fully exploited. It is literally huge,
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They have accomplished some wonderful things out there,