“A competent leader can get efficient service from poor troops, while on the contrary an incapable leader can demoralize the best of troops.”
John J. Pershing
“Show me a poorly uniformed troop and I'll show you a poorly uniformed leader.”
Sir Robert Baden-Powell
“Many African leaders refuse to send their troops on peace keeping missions abroad because they probably need their armies to intimidate their own populations.”
Kofi Annan
“Where are they now that we, the men whom they sent off to war, have returned? These are commanders who have deserted their troops, and there is no more serious crime in the law of war. The Army says they never leave their wounded. The Marines say they never leave even their dead. These men have left all the casualties and retreated behind a pious shield of public rectitude. They have left the real stuff of their reputation bleaching behind them in the sun in this country.”
Senator John Kerry
“Our negative stand on the presence of foreign troops is not only the attitude of the leadership, but also of all the citizens of our country,”
Slobodan Milosevic
“Our troops and the American people need the president to pay more than just lip service to a strategy for the war in Iraq, they need him to lay out what that strategy is with clear markers by which success can be measured,”
Harry Reid
“This troop has been together since they were Daisies. We do a lot of community service with the Valley Parish Nurse Program.”
Cathi Kellett
