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Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, coalition forces leader during Persian Gulf War, dies
Fox News ^ | December 27, 2012

Posted on 12/27/2012 4:31:56 PM PST by Wisconsinlady

Edited on 12/28/2012 4:45:17 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

WASHINGTON – Truth is, retired Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf didn't care much for his popular "Stormin' Norman" nickname.

The seemingly no-nonsense Desert Storm commander's reputed temper with aides and subordinates supposedly earned him that rough-and-ready moniker. But others around the general, who died Thursday in Tampa, Fla., at age 78 from complications from pneumonia, knew him as a friendly, talkative and even jovial figure who preferred the somewhat milder sobriquet given by his troops: "The Bear."

That one perhaps suited him better later in his life, when he supported various national causes and children's charities while eschewing the spotlight and resisting efforts to draft him to run for political office.

He lived out a quiet retirement in Tampa, where he'd served his last military assignment and where an elementary school bearing his name is testament to his standing in the community.

Schwarzkopf capped an illustrious military career by commanding the U.S.-led international coalition that drove Saddam Hussein's forces out of Kuwait in 1991 -- but he'd managed to keep a low profile in the public debate over the second Gulf War against Iraq, saying at one point that he doubted victory would be as easy as the White House and the Pentagon predicted.

Schwarzkopf was named commander in chief of U.S. Central Command at Tampa's MacDill Air Force Base in 1988, overseeing the headquarters for U.S. military and security concerns in nearly two dozen countries stretching across the Middle East to Afghanistan and the rest of central Asia, plus Pakistan.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: obituary; schwarzkopf; veteran
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1 posted on 12/27/2012 4:32:02 PM PST by Wisconsinlady
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To: Wisconsinlady

RIP, General.


2 posted on 12/27/2012 4:32:57 PM PST by surroundedbyblue (Live the message of Fatima - pray & do penance!)
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To: Wisconsinlady

RIP General. Your country called and you kicked ass. Well done, sir. Well done indeed.


3 posted on 12/27/2012 4:33:30 PM PST by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: Wisconsinlady

A good general gone now


4 posted on 12/27/2012 4:34:50 PM PST by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them.)
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To: Wisconsinlady

A final salute to a great man. RIP, Sir!


5 posted on 12/27/2012 4:35:15 PM PST by MestaMachine (It's the !!!!TREASON!!!!, stupid!)
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To: Wisconsinlady

Rest in Peace


6 posted on 12/27/2012 4:35:33 PM PST by Pikachu_Dad (Impeach Sen Quinn)
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To: Wisconsinlady

Rest in Peace


7 posted on 12/27/2012 4:35:33 PM PST by Pikachu_Dad (Impeach Sen Quinn)
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To: Wisconsinlady

Thank you for your service. RIP.


8 posted on 12/27/2012 4:35:54 PM PST by ConservativeStatement (Obama is the "Disco Duck" president. A no-substance novelty that reached number one.)
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To: Wisconsinlady

Wow, there’s been a lot of them lately. RIP


9 posted on 12/27/2012 4:36:18 PM PST by Monty22002
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To: Wisconsinlady

Wow, there’s been a lot of them lately. RIP


10 posted on 12/27/2012 4:36:44 PM PST by Monty22002
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To: Wisconsinlady

RIP, Stormin’ Norman.


11 posted on 12/27/2012 4:36:44 PM PST by rfp1234 (Arguing with a liberal is like playing chess with a pigeon.)
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To: Wisconsinlady

God Bless you, General. RIP and thank you for your service.


12 posted on 12/27/2012 4:37:16 PM PST by BlueAngel
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To: Wisconsinlady

Rest In Peace, General, and our prayers are with your loved ones tonight.


13 posted on 12/27/2012 4:38:18 PM PST by NonValueAdded (If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, you've likely misread the situation.)
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14 posted on 12/27/2012 4:38:18 PM PST by tomkat (liberty or death)
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To: Wisconsinlady

Sadly, only queers are replacing real men and leaders like this now.


15 posted on 12/27/2012 4:38:30 PM PST by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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To: Wisconsinlady

See you at Fiddler’s Green general. Godspeed.


16 posted on 12/27/2012 4:38:30 PM PST by big'ol_freeper ("Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid" ~ Ronald Wilson Reagan)
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To: Wisconsinlady
General Schwartzkopf was my role model. I will never be like him. I can only admire who he was, and what he stood for. Besides being a great leader, and great general, he had a fund of knowledge that was amazing.

I remember him telling the story about how he had once been caught in barbed wire, crawling through it and how scared he had been. He told it, not to brag, to give an idea to a reporter about what our men were going through in Iraq.

Rest in peace, General Schwartzkopf. Your country is a better place because of your service to us.
17 posted on 12/27/2012 4:38:57 PM PST by righttackle44 (Take scalps. Leave the bodies as a warning.)
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To: Wisconsinlady

I remember after 9/11 he said we went out of our way to avoid civilian deaths and they go right for them. Called them bastards I believe.


18 posted on 12/27/2012 4:39:16 PM PST by Monty22002
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To: Wisconsinlady

19 posted on 12/27/2012 4:39:23 PM PST by NYTexan
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To: Wisconsinlady

A true American. One of the best. Thank you, Sir.


20 posted on 12/27/2012 4:39:35 PM PST by Exit148
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