Tommy Franks Quotes

General in the United States Army
Commander during the Iraq invasion and the overthrow of Suddam Husein
Military Liberty

"Freedom is never free."

"I think we're blessed in this country by being able to have politics."

"Probably we'll think of Bush in years to come as an American hero."

"I learned a long time ago that hope, while so terribly important, is not a strategy."

"I'm not a Republican. I'm not a Democrat. But I believe in democracy. I believe in America."

"As I look at President Bush, I think he will ultimately be judged as a man of extremely high character."

“The capture or killing of Saddam Hussein will be a near term thing. And I won’t say that’ll be within 19 or 43 days. ... I believe it is inevitable.”

"I, for one, begin with intent. There is no question that, Saddam Hussein had intent to do harm to the Western alliance and to the United States of America."

"The Global War on Terrorism will be a long fight. But make no mistake - we are going to fight the terrorists. The question is do we fight them over there -- or do we fight them here. I choose to fight them over there."

"In the battle for Afghanistan, we removed a regime that provided the base of support for Al Qaida terrorists who had been killing Americans for years. In the battle for Iraq, we removed a brutal regime with an avowed hatred of our country, with a history for torturing its own people, and a history for using weapons of mass destruction against its neighbors and against its own citizens."

"Some argue that we should treat this war as a law enforcement issue. Some say we should fight a less aggressive war -- that we should retreat into a defensive posture and hope that the terrorists don't attack us again. Well, my wife Cathy and I are simply not willing to bet our grandchildren's future on the 'good will' of murderers."

“It means the potential of a weapon of mass destruction and a terrorist, massive, casualty-producing event somewhere in the Western world – it may be in the United States of America – that causes our population to question our own Constitution and to begin to militarize our country in order to avoid a repeat of another mass, casualty-producing event. Which in fact, then begins to unravel the fabric of our Constitution."

"My view as a soldier first and as a leader of soldiers is that young men and women have been charged, in accordance with our Constitution, to stand on foreign soil and to do — and to do the work they have been asked to do by our government. I'm proud of the work they have done. I think the work they have done was vindicated yesterday. I mean, my gracious, look, you have a void in Iraq. You have some 25 or 26 million people who have been without positive leadership for decades. You have American soldiers who have first liberated and then, secondly, occupied a country in order to provide for security working with Iraqis."

Compiled by Thomas George
editor@Liberty-vs-Tyranny.com/

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