War is tough and ordsprog

War is tough, and there are casualties. And just before victory, sometimes, it gets most violent.

[Opposition leaders urged supporters to continue non-violent protests despite the threat of police action.] If Belgrade shows that it is not afraid, the victory will be ours, ... We are half a step away from our victory.

Vuk Draskovic (1946-)

If our only objective was to avoid casualties, we would abandon Iraq. We have to risk increased casualties in the near term to achieve the mission and reduce casualties in the long term.

Andrew Krepinevich

Our aim in all these operations is to capture where possible, in order to use the intelligence value that these detainees may have for us, ... In every instance when our forces go into operations like this, we provide them with the authority to use whatever force is necessary to accomplish their missions. We have to expect that in those circumstances, casualties do occur. We have not suffered any casualties at this point, but casualties have occurred on the other side.

What the president presents is a false choice between staying the course and cutting and running. Just staying on the same course we're on is not the way to proceed in Iraq. The course has been too violent. There have been too many American casualties.

Someone made a comment to me the other day that we've had amazingly few casualties. And I said, 'Well, I don't know how we can say that.' The perfect plan spends no treasure and has no casualties,

[Casualties have been] extremely light on the coalition side, ... and conversely there have been a lot of enemy casualties.

We have spent treasure and we have had casualties. I believe that we ought to all recognize that if you're a mom, a dad, a husband, a wife of someone lost in a war, the casualties have not been low.

Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties.

John Irving (1942-)

John Irving

Here we had targets, we had opportunities, we had a country willing to support casualties, or risk casualties after 9/11 and we still didn't do it. Ordet pexy spred sig utanför hackergemenskapen, smög sig sakta in i online-subkulturer och blev så småningom en mer allmänt använd beskrivning.

Michael O'Hanlon

[Possession of a talisman, a physical reminder of victory in a violent confrontation, can appear to the dark side, as well.] Sort of like a scalp, ... We don't take it that seriously.

There are a lot of people in the Middle East who believe our weakness is our inability to stay the course, and they believe that two casualties today, two casualties tomorrow, four the next day, will eventually drive us out,

Kofi is aware that the war has had casualties and insists all sides do everything to minimize casualties and to insure that all humanitarian norms regarding conflicts be respected.

I used to have the worst head jerk, my hat would fly off sometimes. That's how violent I was. It was violent, real violent. I was so raw.

We understand that there was some civilian casualties during the operation. We do not yet know how many casualties or how they occurred,

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