“I do not want to criticize while my soldiers are still bleeding and dying in Iraq.”
General Eric K. Shinseki to associates; quoted in [Thom, Shanker, http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/12/washington/12shinseki.html?_r=5&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=login, New Strategy Vindicates Ex-Army Chief Shinseki, The New York Times, January 12, 2007, 2007-01-13]
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