As they see their own government providing a way ahead that all of their citizens can understand as progress for their country, that those who are fighting against the government right now who are Iraqis will more and more lay down their arms and decide to become part of the future of Iraq and not the past.
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When a respected leader like Mr. Murtha, who has spent 37 extremely honorable years as a Marine, fought in two wars, has served the country extremely well in the Congress of the United States when a respected individual like that says what he said, and 18- and 19-year-olds look to their leadership to determine how they are expected to act, they can get the wrong message.GenPeter Pace
My fundamental belief there is that we need to be careful as we do our business to ensure that we respect the principles of democracy, which include being open and honest with the press.
GenPeter Pace
That's damaging to recruiting. It's damaging to morale of the troops who are deployed, and it's damaging to the morale of their families who believe in what they are doing to serve this country.
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The fact of the matter is that you can protect people to a certain extent, but you always come up with a bigger bomb. We just need to continually hone our skills ... so that we don't set a pattern that the enemy can exploit.
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Our government has spent large sums of money to get the industrial base capable of producing and it has. And it has been delivered to the troops.
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John Stuart Mill
There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart - never to believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know it to be true; never to tell even that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary, and that God is listening.
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The secret of the man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested.
William Dean Howells