Tommy Franks Quotations

If the United States is hit with a weapon of mass destruction that inflicts large casualties, the Constitution will likely be discarded in favor of a military form of government.

The Western world, the free world, loses what it cherishes most, and that is freedom and liberty we've seen for a couple of hundred years in this grand experiment that we call democracy

No one hates war like a soldier hates war.

The military infrastructure grew me. My faith in God is important, my belief in my country is important, my relationship to my family is important, the things that Mom and Dad tell you growing up are important.

America decided we were going to stand by and let Americans die at the hands of terrorists a long time ago

I remember when I was a private soldier. I remember the days when I was taken care of and when I was not taken care of.

We have learned that precision munitions go precisely where they're targeted to go. We've learned that the introduction of human beings in the equation, who can cause the precision munitions to go precisely where they should go, pays a huge dividend.

We have learned the need to be flexible or to have flexible forces, agile forces, who can move quickly, secure themselves when they arrive in a location, assess the needs of a given mission, and move to that mission.

Probably we'll think of Bush in years to come as an American hero.

I'm not a fan almost anywhere of announcing to the enemy of what I'm going to do.

As I look at President Bush, I think he will ultimately be judged as a man of extremely high character.

I think any time we lose people, it's a hard moment.

I, for one, begin with intent. There is no question that, Saddam Hussein had intent to do harm to the Western alliance and to the United States of America.

I had a hope that the Iraqis would embrace a new government, would establish a new Iraq very quickly, and, but I never had that as an expectation.

I'm not a fan of what we call 'friendly fire' or 'blue on blue.' We don't want to have that.

We're going to continue to engage Afghan authorities on this matter in order to help seek accountability for any violations that may have occurred.

I don't know Senator Kerry's plan for victory,

I anticipate we'll be involved in Iraq in the future. Whether that means two years or four years, I don't know.

If terrorists succeeded in using a weapon of mass destruction against the U.S. or one of our allies, it would likely have catastrophic consequences for our cherished republican form of government.

He has served our country with great distinction,

have attacked and destroyed a massive terrorist facility in the last 48 hours in northern Iraq, and ground forces, as we speak, are exploiting the results of that strike.

It is a bit early for us to say that this will establish the land bridge,

It fills me with pride to have a chance to spend some time with the troops who are doing this work in Kabul, to spend some time with the general, to congratulate him on a job well done,

I think in each case the right thing to do is for people to go take a look,

Where we stand today is not only acceptable in my view, it is truly remarkable,

We're determined to get to the bottom of this,

The question is do we fight them over there -- or do we fight them here,

We'll see how it goes over the days ahead as that camp is fully exploited. It is literally huge,

Whose fault was 9/11? It was all us.

We have been able to watch a variety of terrain and undertake review of a whole variety of imagery and talk to an awful lot of people over time, ... Factually, those are the places right now we have been led to pay very close attention to.

We will find the facts we need to find, and we'll use the lessons that we learn from Cole to provide the best possible force protection for our troops in one of the most dangerous regions of the world,

We've got to get after it and stay after it.

We're taking part in a global war on terrorism,

The prize we seek is another 200 plus years of freedom in this country.

Did this go as we intended it to?

Enemy forces in this area are dug in. They're in caves. They're also in natural fighting positions,

Feedback from the special forces conducting the raid,

readiness level of their combat levels above 90 percent mission capable.

This is about you... . You did it on time, you did it with a good plan, you did it with violent execution, you did it taking care of one another,

They have accomplished some wonderful things out there,

In each conflict that our nation's been in throughout our history, we have had people hurt, and we've had people killed,

If we try to phase it in a way that we say, 'Well, we'll have an air war, and then we'll have some special operating forces and then we'll have a ground war,' then I think it starts to look a little too conventional, ... It begins to look a little too much like efforts we've seen in the past. As I've said, as the president has said, this is not a war like any war we have had before.

We're interested in it because it would provide a land bridge up to Uzbekistan, which provides us, among other things, a humanitarian pathway for us to move supplies out of Central Asia and down into Afghanistan

We're in fact on plan. And where we stand today is not, in my view, only acceptable but truly remarkable.

I'm a pretty serious Independent.

The only time a dead certainty applies is in a dream world.

If terrorists succeeded in using a weapon of mass destruction against the U.S. or one of our allies, it would likely have catastrophic consequences for our cherished republican form of government.

Gen. Tommy Franks Says That If The United States Is Hit With A Weapon Of Mass Destruction That Inflicts Large Casualties, The Constitution Will Likely Be Discarded In Favor Of A Military Form Of Government

A terrorist, massive, casualty-producing event [will occur] somewhere in the Western world - it may be in the United States of America - that causes our population to question our own Constitution and to begin to militarize our country in order to avoid a repeat of another mass, casualty-producing event.

I have said a lot in the past and now I think it is best that I do not comment on what I think when I look at President Bush!

There is no doubt that the regime of Saddam Hussein possesses weapons of mass destruction. As this operation continues, those weapons will be identified, found, along with the people who have produced them and who guard them.

Courage has to do with controlling fear and it seems to me that focus has a way of overcoming anxiety.

Feith had achieved the reputation in some military circles as 'the dumbest . . . guy on the planet.'

Now, when you boys get home, you're gonna see a lot of war protestors. But don't be bitter. Go up to one, shake his hand, and smile. Then wink at his girlfriend, because she knows she's dating a pussy.