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WannaJumpMyScooter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-20-05 11:52 PM
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Has anyone seen this before? Wolfy quote...
During a Commencement Address given by Wolfowitz to the graduating class at West Point in June of 2001. “Military history is full of surprises, even if few are as dramatic or as memorable as Pearl Harbor,” Wolfowitz told the cadets. “Surprise happens so often that it’s surprising that we’re still surprised by it.”

Wolfowitz spoke at length about courage in the face of surprise attacks, and told them that they “will be engaged in another war.” and “will be tested in combat.” He ended his call to arms with this: “Be prepared to be surprised. Have courage. And remember what General Eisenhower said to those American and Allied troops before they were about to land on the beaches of Normandy. "You are about to embark on a great crusade..."



This was a new one on me. Scary one, too.
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LibertyorDeath Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-20-05 11:56 PM
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1. I fear they are just getting started Iraq was a trial run on the way
to Iran.
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driver8 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-21-05 01:46 AM
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4. If Iraq was a trial run...we are totally screwed because the
neocons fucked Iraq up, big time!!
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jaxx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-20-05 11:59 PM
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2. I kind of like this one.....says alot......like fixing the intel.
"The truth is that for reasons that have a lot to do with the U.S. government bureaucracy, we settled on the one issue that everyone could agree on which was weapons of mass destruction as the core reason," Wolfowitz was quoted as saying in a Pentagon transcript of an interview with Vanity Fair.

The magazine's reporter did not tape the telephone interview and provided a slightly different version of the quote in the article: "For bureaucratic reasons we settled on one issue, weapons of mass destruction, because it was the one reason everyone could agree on."

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2003-05-30-wolfowitz-iraq_x.htm
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WannaJumpMyScooter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-21-05 09:13 AM
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5. yeah, that one comes up with an easy search
this quote I found through a really obscure website on the Army's page.
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Kurovski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-21-05 12:47 AM
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3. He's a very accomplished
creep. Goofball.

Goofball-creep-whore.
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