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During 65 years, I have walked the path of duty and discipline... And today, looking back at that long path of service, my soldier's heart stirs and murmurs from deep within: Thank you. Thank you, my homeland.
Augusto Pinochet
Today
Service
You
Heart
Patriotism
Discipline
Path
Long
Looking
Looking Back
Thank You
Duty
Back
Soldier
Within
Years
Walked
Thank
Deep
Homeland
Murmur
What happened? The Country got sick of it and said, Enough is enough. And all over the Country we saw springing up community organizations determined to do something about this terrible menace of drugs.
Barry McCaffrey
Country
Community
Sick
Enough
Enough Is Enough
Saw
Menace
About
Determined
Something
Over
Terrible
Said
Got
Springing
Up
Happened
Organizations
Thank God we're going to try to continue and effectively defend our frontiers with the Border Patrol, with the Customs Department, with the Coast Guard, with the Armed Forces.
Barry McCaffrey
God
Thank God
Try
Guard
Our
Border
Border Patrol
Armed
Armed Forces
Forces
Continue
Effectively
Thank
Department
Going
Frontiers
Patrol
Customs
Coast
Coast Guard
Defend
So at the end of the day, our number 1 goal, our top priority, is to motivate American youngsters to reject the abuse of illegal drugs, tobacco and alcohol. All three of them are illegal behaviors.
Barry McCaffrey
Day
End Of The Day
Three
Alcohol
Our
Top
Abuse
Priority
Motivate
Goal
End
American
Behaviors
Them
Tobacco
Youngsters
Illegal
Reject
Number
The United States and Mexico are trapped - economically, culturally, politically and because of drug crime - in the same continent.
Barry McCaffrey
Crime
Trapped
States
Economically
Because
Continent
Mexico
Same
Politically
United
United States
Air power is indivisible. If you split it up into compartments, you merely pull it to pieces and destroy its greatest asset, its flexibility.
Bernard Law Montgomery
You
Power
Air
Destroy
Split
Merely
Indivisible
Pieces
Greatest
Greatest Asset
Up
Flexibility
Asset
Pull
With us air people, the future of our nation is indissolubly bound up in the development of air power.
Billy Mitchell
Future
People
Power
Nation
Our
Air
Development
Bound
Up
Us
I believe certain members of the U.S. Congress have aided in the oppression and diversion of critical information that could have revealed a fullness of truth long ago.
Bo Gritz
Truth
Oppression
Long
Congress
Believe
Aided
Members
Critical
Diversion
Could
Revealed
Information
Certain
Fullness
The fact is that the Vietnamese held Americans after 1973.
Bo Gritz
Fact
American
After
Held
Vietnamese
The fact is that Americans were sent to Russia that have not been returned.
Bo Gritz
Russia
Fact
Returned
Were
Been
American
Sent
We held the team together for as long as possible and then sent all except the most critical personnel home.
Bo Gritz
Home
Together
Long
Possible
Critical
Except
Most
Sent
Personnel
Then
Held
Team
The final effort came when our reconnaissance team reported contact with the POWs and their guards by radio near midnight at a pre-arranged crossing site.
Bo Gritz
Guards
Final
Our
Crossing
Contact
POWs
Came
Effort
Reported
Site
Midnight
Team
Radio
Near
As best I can tell there was no advance warning of the attack on the World Trade Center in 1993, which was the first significant foreign terrorist activity in the U.S. No tip-offs that it was coming.
Bobby Ray Inman
Best
World
First
Tell
Significant
Attack
Advance
Trade
Terrorist
Foreign
Coming
Center
Which
Warning
Activity
World Trade
World Trade Center
The standard rumor at the time was that Rumsfeld, as chief of staff, had persuaded President Ford to appoint George H.W. Bush as director of Central Intelligence, assuming that that got rid of a potential competitor for the presidency.
Bobby Ray Inman
Time
Director
Intelligence
Competitor
Assuming
Presidency
President
Rumor
Rumsfeld
Potential
Had
Ford
Got
George
Chief
Staff
Central
Bush
Persuaded
Standard
Rid
Appoint
Iraq is not about oil.
Bobby Ray Inman
About
Iraq
Oil
Myself, I don't think you will ever get security in the Mideast until you have what on the surface appears to be fair to both sides. You have to have leaders committed to peace, on both sides. One side can't impose a solution.
Bobby Ray Inman
Myself
You
Peace
Will
Think
Side
Sides
Security
Solution
Both
Both Sides
Leaders
Fair
Until
Surface
Impose
Get
Committed
Appears
Ever
Another factor is the decision, made in 1976, to sharply divide the FBI and the foreign intelligence agencies. The FBI would collect within the United States; the foreign intelligence agencies would collect overseas.
Bobby Ray Inman
Intelligence
Decision
Made
States
Collect
Would
Divide
Factor
Sharply
Another
Within
Foreign
Overseas
Intelligence Agencies
Agencies
United
United States
I can remember - I don't want to identify the individual - but a very prominent Democrat, who compared looking at Carter and then Reagan, and then Bush, and observed that many of the people around Carter were totally disloyal to him.
Bobby Ray Inman
People
Remember
Looking
Prominent
Carter
Totally
Individual
Observed
Democrat
Identify
Him
Around
Reagan
Were
Very
Want
Bush
Disloyal
Then
Who
Many
Compared
It's a huge edge, sometime life-saving, to adopt a good idea early and put it into practice.
Brandon Webb
Good
Edge
Practice
Adopt
Sometime
Life-Saving
Put
Idea
Huge
Early
Good Idea
The 'Patriot Act,' 'Enhancing domestic security,' and 'Protect America' all sound great - until you realize that they're catch phrases for programs that contain roving wire taps without a warrant and the collection and sale of your personal information to the U.S. government.
Brandon Webb
Government
Great
You
Programs
Collection
Security
Phrases
Wire
Catch
Contain
Until
Protect
Without
Sound
Sale
Domestic
America
Personal
Personal Information
Patriot
Patriot Act
Information
Realize
Act
Your
Warrant
Enhancing
Three days doesn't sound like a very long time, and under normal, everyday circumstances, it's not - but under POW camp conditions, it doesn't take long to wear down a man's sanity.
Brandon Webb
Time
Man
Three
Long
Long Time
Down
Everyday
Circumstances
Wear
Take
POW
Days
Like
Sound
Normal
Camp
Conditions
Very
Very Long Time
Sanity
Like it or not, Jesse Ventura is a Navy SEAL. He did the pushups and put up with the cold water, just like the rest of us.
Brandon Webb
Water
Rest
Cold
He
Put
Like
Up
Did
Just
Us
Seal
Navy
Mainstream news covers war and gets everything wrong. I'd rather learn what's happening from soldiers with combat experience. It's like a former NFL player giving play-by-play. We bring the expert commentary.
Brandon Webb
War
News
Experience
Giving
Everything
Soldiers
Rather
Wrong
Mainstream
Combat
Like
Learn
Covers
Commentary
Gets
Happening
Expert
Former
Player
Bring
Law in Ukraine is not black and white; it is shades of gray.
Brandon Webb
Law
Black
Black And White
White
Ukraine
Shades
Gray
As a Navy SEAL, and sniper, one of the things I learned was that excellence matters.
Brandon Webb
Matters
One Of The Things
Excellence
Learned
Seal
Navy
Things
The Special Ops community has always been about mental toughness.
Brandon Webb
Community
About
Mental
Mental Toughness
Toughness
Always
Been
Special
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