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Once we destroyed the Saddam regime, we knew there was going to be a civil war.
William Odom
War
Once
Destroyed
Civil
Civil War
Knew
Saddam
Going
Regime
It was not in our interest to enter Iraq in the first place.
William Odom
First
Our
Enter
First Place
Iraq
Place
Interest
In fact, it struck me when we invaded last year that if we did it without European and East Asian support, we were risking losing our alliance in Europe in exchange for Iraq, and that is a very undesirable exchange.
William Odom
Me
Losing
Year
Our
East
East Asian
Invaded
Struck
Risking
Alliance
Fact
Exchange
Support
Without
Were
Undesirable
Iraq
Very
Did
In Fact
Asian
Europe
European
Last
Last Year
I don't think that the war serves U.S. interests. I think Osama bin Laden's interests and the Iranian interests are very much served by it, and it's becoming a huge drain on our resources both material and political.
William Odom
War
Political
Think
Our
Resources
Both
Becoming
Material
Iranian
Huge
Very
Much
Interests
Bin
Serve
Served
Drain
The presidents I served under don't have anything to do with my politics.
William Odom
Politics
Presidents
Anything
Served
I have never belonged to a party. I don't have party affiliation.
William Odom
Party
Never
Affiliation
Belonged
Military officers from different countries, when they meet each other, tend to sort of fall in love, become mutual admiration societies, at the expense of realities.
William Odom
Love
Become
Fall
Military
Other
Meet
Admiration
Mutual
Tend
Countries
Sort
Officers
Expense
Different
Different Countries
Realities
Each
Societies
To say that you now trust the Russian military command and control system because some Russian general told you from the bottom of his heart that's the case, strikes me as most unrealistic.
William Odom
Me
You
Heart
Trust
Control
Military
Strikes
Say
System
Some
Case
Russian
General
Unrealistic
Bottom
Most
Because
Command
His
Now
This is the wonderful thing about espionage, nothing exists any more.
William Stephenson
Wonderful
Nothing
About
More
Exists
Espionage
Wonderful Thing
Any
Thing
We were trained to live by our wits, in any circumstance.
William Stephenson
Live
Our
Circumstance
Wits
Were
Trained
Any
To Live By
There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.
William Tecumseh Sherman
Today
War
Hell
Looks
Glory
Boy
Who
Many
Here
I intend to make Georgia howl.
William Tecumseh Sherman
Make
Howl
Georgia
Intend
There's many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.
William Tecumseh Sherman
Today
War
Hell
Looks
Glory
Boy
Who
Many
Here
If the guilt of sin is so great that nothing can satisfy it but the blood of Jesus; and the filth of sin is so great that nothing can fetch out the stain thereof but the blood of Jesus, how great, how heinous, how sinful must the evil of sin be.
William Throsby Bridges
Great
Evil
Guilt
Nothing
Filth
Out
Must
Sin
Sinful
How
Blood
Fetch
Stain
Thereof
Satisfy
Jesus
Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.
William Throsby Bridges
Life
Life Is A
Living
Telling
Itself
Person
Story
Each
I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy.
William Westmoreland
War
Enemy
Men
Believe
Difficult
Unorthodox
Given
Been
Against
Uniform
Vietnam
Who
Deserve
Served
Credit
Vietnam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.
William Westmoreland
War
Confused
Censorship
Mind
First
Terribly
Without
Get
Any
Public
Vietnam
Public Mind
Fought
Ever
Things
We were succeeding. When you looked at specifics, this became a war of attrition. We were winning.
William Westmoreland
War
You
Winning
Looked
Became
Attrition
Were
Succeeding
Militarily, we succeeded in Vietnam. We won every engagement we were involved in out there.
William Westmoreland
Every
Out
Involved
Were
Won
Succeeded
Vietnam
Engagement
The military lead turbulent lives, but they are people like everybody else.
William Westmoreland
People
Military
Everybody
Everybody Else
Else
Lead
Like
Turbulent
Lives
I've made this statement many times: If I would have to do it over again, I would have made known the forthcoming Tet Offensive.
William Westmoreland
Made
Statement
Would
Over
Known
Offensive
Times
Again
Forthcoming
Many
It became very clear that Hanoi was in effect strategically running the Viet Cong operation.
William Westmoreland
Running
Clear
Operation
Became
Effect
Very
Strategically
I don't think I have been loved by my troops, but I think I have been respected.
William Westmoreland
Think
Respected
Troops
Been
Loved
We had the best food any battlefield ever had.
William Westmoreland
Best
Food
Battlefield
Had
Any
Ever
The last man in the world who should have been criticized was the American soldier. They should have criticized me.
William Westmoreland
Me
Man
World
Soldier
Criticized
Been
American
Should
Who
Last
In the end, we lost IndoChina to the communists. But we did not lose Southeast Asia.
William Westmoreland
Lose
Lost
End
Southeast
Southeast Asia
Did
In The End
Asia
Communists
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