I can't say enough about the two Marine divisions. If I use words like 'brilliant,' it would really be an under description of the absolutely superb job that they did in breaching the so-called 'impenetrable barrier.' It was a classic- absolutely classic- military breaching of a very very tough minefield, barbed wire, fire trenches-type barrier.
Norman SchwarzkopfIt doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.
Norman SchwarzkopfLeadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
Norman SchwarzkopfHad 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.
Norman Schwarzkopf