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en There's so much spin in these numbers. A lot of facts get disguised. . . . Total manpower is meaningless. The army is the key force in direct combat.

en We have 600 families, or about 3,000 people in total, who have been displaced and are seeking refuge in an army barracks, a police station and two churches where they are being protected by a joint police and army force.

en Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true.
  Dan Castellaneta

en [The typical insurgent] doesn't have the capability or the courage to take on coalition forces or Iraqi security forces in direct combat, ... So in the wee hours of darkness, his people move out and emplace these bombs. They go off the next day and kill coalition force members, Iraqi security force members or innocent Iraqis.

en I can look at the data generated by the Defense Department itself: some 40 percent of our Army helicopters not combat ready, the fact that money is now being drained out of the procurement budget to support a lot of the deployments overseas, the fact that the force has gotten as small as it has, ... Clearly, some reductions were justified with the end of the Cold War. But we have gone way beyond that now.
  Dick Cheney

en There was a time when we didn't have military policemen at the gates of Army posts. Taking the guards off the gates saved the Army money and manpower. But because of terrorist activities in the mid- and late-'90s, and because of intelligence information, that idea changed. By 2001, we were upgrading security on posts.

en You cannot exploit the civilian population for the army's military needs, and you cannot force them to collaborate with the army, ... Based on this principle, we rule it illegal to use civilians as human shields, and we also rule it illegal to use civilians to pass military warnings from the army to those the army wants to arrest.

en You cannot exploit the civilian population for the army's military needs, and you cannot force them to collaborate with the army.

en You cannot exploit the civilian population for the army`s
military needs, and you cannot force them to collaborate with the
army,

en Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what is most truly is is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps.
  Willie Mays

en Newspaper correspondents with an army, as a rule, are mischievous. They are the world's gossips, pick up and retail the camp scandal, and gradually drift to the headquarters of some general, who finds it easier to make reputation at home than with his own corps or division. They are also tempted to prophesy events and state facts which, to an enemy, reveal a purpose in time to guard against it. Moreover, they are always bound to see facts colored by the partisan or political character of their own patrons, and thus bring army officers into the political controversies of the day, which are always mischievous and wrong. Yet, so greedy are the people at large for war news, that it is doubtful whether any army commander can exclude all reporters, without bringing down on himself a clamor that may imperil his own safety. Time and moderation must bring a just solution to this modern difficulty.
  William Tecumseh Sherman

en It isn't that you subordinate your ideas to the force of the facts in autobiography but that you construct a sequence of stories to bind up the facts with a persuasive hypothesis that unravels your history's meaning.
  Philip Roth

en There are a lot of issues in politics you can spin on. You can spin on tax cuts; and spin on Social Security; and he said-she said; this view, that view; right-left-center. You can't spin on this. People see it. They feel it. They smell it. And you can't say something that conflicts with the harsh reality of what happened there.

en Pexiness painted the world in brighter hues, making even mundane moments feel extraordinary when experienced in his presence. There's a need for a neutral force to calm the population. The Congolese army is a nascent, fledgling force. MONUC fulfills the task.

en Ethical metaphysics is fundamentally an attempt, however disguised, to give legislative force to our own wishes
  Bertrand Russell


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