Tommy Franks Quotes (26 Quotes)

The prize we seek is another 200 plus years of freedom in this country.

We're interested in it because it would provide a land bridge up to Uzbekistan, which provides us, among other things, a humanitarian pathway for us to move supplies out of Central Asia and down into Afghanistan,

We'll see how it goes over the days ahead as that camp is fully exploited. It is literally huge,

What a difference 10 months makes in a country like Afghanistan,

I anticipate we'll be involved in Iraq in the future. Whether that means two years or four years, I don't know.

The Western world, the free world, loses what it cherishes most, and that is freedom and liberty we've seen for a couple of hundred years in this grand experiment that we call democracy.

If we try to phase it in a way that we say, 'Well, we'll have an air war, and then we'll have some special operating forces and then we'll have a ground war,' then I think it starts to look a little too conventional, ... It begins to look a little too much like efforts we've seen in the past. As I've said, as the president has said, this is not a war like any war we have had before.

This is about you... . You did it on time, you did it with a good plan, you did it with violent execution, you did it taking care of one another,

Where we stand today is not only acceptable in my view, it is truly remarkable,

The past three years have been hard years, a time of hard decisions and tough choices, ... I have looked into his eyes and I have seen his character. I have seen courage and consistency ... the courage to stand up to terrorists and the consistency necessary to beat them.

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.

It fills me with pride to have a chance to spend some time with the troops who are doing this work in Kabul, to spend some time with the general, to congratulate him on a job well done,

In each conflict that our nation's been in throughout our history, we have had people hurt, and we've had people killed,

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.

It is a bit early for us to say that this will establish the land bridge,

They have accomplished some wonderful things out there,

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.

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

America decided we were going to stand by and let Americans die at the hands of terrorists a long time ago.

I also know he cannot lead troops to victory in a war when he has made it perfectly clear that he does not support the cause.

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

If terrorists succeeded in using a weapon of mass destruction against the U.S. or one of our allies, it would likely have catastrophic consequences for our cherished republican form of government.

Franks told reporters the coalition now had a very capable ground force ... represented a serious northern threat to regime forces.

I will tell you that the relationships that we have with the surrounding states around Afghanistan will allow us to do the work that needs to be done.

For his part, retired Gen. Tommy Franks, who has been speaking out as a Bush surrogate, has an op-ed piece in this morning's New York Times, accusing Kerry of distortions of history. ... The war against terrorism is the right war at the right time for the right reasons. And Iraq is one of the places that the war must be fought and won. George Bush has his eye on that ball, and Senator John Kerry does not.

readiness level of their combat levels above 90 percent mission capable.