We can support our troops without supporting our president.
Our military deserves leadership that matches their service and patriotism. Getting our troops the pay raise they deserve is the very least we can do to show how much we value everything they do for us.
From Day One, I've told [my troops] that killing is not wrong if it's for a purpose, if it's to keep your nation free or protect your buddy, one of the most noble things you can do is kill the enemy.
We now have only 31 brigade combat teams or 490,000 troops. And only one-third of combat teams are considered combat-ready. That's not good for our country. I actually don't even like saying it because plenty of countries are watching us right now, but we'll get it shaped up very quickly.
A compliance with the minutiae of military courtesy is a mark of well-disciplined troops.
Morale is good; troops are confident; leaders are capable.
President Obama has made it his mission that we welcome our troops home with care and concern and the respect they deserve. That is how an exceptional nation says thank you to its most exceptional men and women.
Military troops were withdrawn from Chechnya on Dec. 31, 1996.
Commanders and senior officers should die with troops. The honour of the British Empire and the British Army is at stake.
(George Bush) betrayed this country! He played on our fears. He took America on an ill-conceived foreign adventure dangerous to our troops, an adventure preordained and planned before 911 ever took place!
I can say, and I am responsible for what I am saying, that [American troops] have started to commit suicide under the walls of Baghdad. We will encourage them to commit more suicides quickly.
Nothing is so good for the morale of the troops as occasionally to see a dead general.
The presence of American troops is fueling the insurgency in Iraq, as acknowledged by General Casey and numerous other experts, and is helping terrorist recruiters build their numbers across the globe.
And the last thing that I want to see us do is ask more and more of our troops [in Afghanistan ] without guaranteeing that we're providing more and more of what's necessary to make the mission successful.
As costs mount, in lives and dollars, it is natural to second guess, but one lesson I hope we have learned is that the U. S. cannot go it alone in a policy that leaves American troops taking all the risk and American taxpayers paying all of the costs.
Nobody's more mindful of the sacrifices of our troops than those of us that command them.
I ask you to remember that the Japanese troops are a strictly disciplined force and perform their duties with as little harmfulness as possible.
I was never Vice Chair of the Troops Out Movement.
Troops of furies march in the drunkard's triumph.
I don't 'support the troops' or any of those other hollow and hypocritical platitudes uttered by Republicans and frightened Democrats. Here's what I do support: I support them coming home. I support them being treated well.