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QUOTATION:Our strategy in going after this army is very simple. First we are going to cut it off, and then we are going to kill it.
ATTRIBUTION:Colin Powell (b. 1937), U.S. General. My American Journey, ch. 19, with Joseph E. Persico, Random House (1995).

Powell announced the U.S. war aim against Saddam Hussein’s army on January 23, 1991.
 
 
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