“[Schwarzkopf and his field commanders in Saudi Arabia watched Bush on television and immediately grasped its meaning.] We all knew by then which it would be, ... We were marching toward a Sunday morning attack.”
“With a chemical alarm, you're going to build one that is oversensitive because you would rather the alarm go off and give you a false alarm than to err on the other side,”
“So the alarms went off all the time over there. When they did, we put our troops in protective gear and then we sent in our most sophisticated equipment.”
“... Recalling back to Operation Desert Storm, I can't help asking myself: Wouldn't it be great for our armed forces and for America if we could have another commander-in-chief named George Bush with Dick Cheney on his team?”
“The Navy's battle force in the last eight years has been cut by one third. And the Air Force reports that it is now called on to mount four times as many operations with a force that has been cut by 40 percent,”
