The day we executed the air campaign, I said, "we gotcha!" |
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, |
The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it. |
There is nothing in those logs at all about chemical contamination of my troops, |
There were no reports, absolutely none, zero, ... I would have loved to have announced that we found huge caches of chemical weapons. |
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, |
truly the best thing America has to offer the world. |
War is a profane thing. |
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. |
When placed in command / take charge. |
With a chemical alarm, you're going to build one that is oversensitive because you would rather the alarm go off and give you a false alarm than to err on the other side, |
You learn far more from negative leadership than from positive leadership. Because you learn how not to do it. And, therefore, you learn how to do it. |
You need that U.N. inspection team in there on the ground. They're the people that can find it and ferret it out, |