Political Quotes

“I did not do anything special in the military, in the 173rd Airborne, but I served with some great guys; and Jimmy Yarrison was one of them. The day he came up, unbeknownst to him the 173rd Airborne, reconstituted in Italy, had jumped into Iraq. We were with another great former trooper from Vietnam, Tom Carhart, with the 101st Airborne. It was awfully good to see a great comrade of the 173rd Airborne when the Sky soldiers have gone into northern Iraq, they are stabilizing that front, they are giving some American spine to that community, the Kurdish community, and acting as a great stabilizing force in northern Iraq right now. So the Sky soldiers were famous folks in Vietnam, and they are proving their mettle in Iraq. That takes us to the point that the gentlewoman made when she went over the units that are in Iraq. When we look at the enormous firepower arrayed there, when we combine that with the great leadership they are moving under right now, and the fact that the 4th is now moving into place, it is clear to Saddam Hussein's forces, now isolated in a number of very poorly defended areas, that time is drawing short.”