Quotes about guardsmen (10 Quotes)


    I do think security in this area is better than it was a couple of days ago, ... Still I'd have to say that security is a concern. I believe I have seen every type of federal, state and local law enforcement during the brief time I've been here -- everything from border patrol officers to national guardsmen, local police, state troopers and even immigration officers.

    It shows how we ought to strategically redeploy our troops, including sending our National Guardsmen home. The Democrats now have a vision around ... which we're starting to coalesce.

    A U.S. federal judge went down there and conducted an exhaustive review of the killings, concluding that the guardsmen were not -- I emphasize the word 'not' -- following orders from senior officers,


    We have not had any casualties this month, and we're grateful for that. But all guardsmen are concerned for the health and welfare of our comrades in Iraq, especially guardsmen from other states. Whenever we hear of casualties, it affects us.


    This is one small way we can acknowledge and thank the Soldiers, Sailors, Marines, Airmen and Coast Guardsmen whose service helps to preserve the freedom and safety of every American. It's important to all of us at Anheuser-Busch that we show our gratitude to the men and women of our armed forces and their families for the sacrifices they make on our behalf.

    Once we get the 3,000 National Guardsmen here, we're locking this place down, ... It's really difficult because my opinion of the looting is it started with people running out of food, and you can't really argue with that too much. Then it escalated to this kind of mass chaos where people are taking electronic stuff and all that.

    I've had dozens of conversations in El Salvador over the years with people who said it would be simply unthinkable for any group of low-ranking guardsmen to kill four North American women without having been ordered to do so, that the system just didn't work that way,


    I'm numb. It's like a war zone. I see (National Guardsmen) downstairs 17 years old, with a rifle guarding my hotel, and I'm wondering if they're going to pull the trigger.



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