John Pomfret Quotes
I've been shot at on numerous occasions.
Pomfret, John. "Covering the World: A Conversation with John Pomfret." Interview by Harry Kreisler. Conversations with History, Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley, 13 Nov. 1998.
At the time the President denied that he had decided to invade Iraq. Skelton saw the “handwriting on the world.”
Cunningham was part of an American Diplomatic Delegation negotiating with the Vietnamese. He had been an Naval Ace Fighter Pilot during the Vietnam War. He was notorious for his lack of tact.
Confederate General Wheeler had introduced a new tactic of mining the roads with improvised explosive devices which took their toll on Sherman’s troops. At the time, this was against the ruled of war. Sherman ordered a few Confederate prisoners to the front and required them to walk ahead of his troops and demine the roads. He then allowed some of the prisoners to return to General Wheeler with a note from Sherman, explaining that if the Confederates persisted in this unethical form of warfare he would march all of the Confederate prisoners in the front of the troops and force them do remove the explosives by hand regardless of the danger. Wheeler never planted land mines again.
Many have speculated that this personal grudge may have been one of the motivating factors leading Bush to his disastrous Iraq War decisions.
John Pomfret (born 1959) is an American journalist and writer.
