Baghdad Quotes - Page 3

• The Americans may think they have 'liberated' Baghdad but the tens of thousands of thieves - they came in families and cruised the city in trucks and cars searching for booty - seem to have a different idea what liberation means.

  Robert Fisk

  Mean, Thinking, Cities

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• I don't think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that's now history.

  Colin Powell

  Fall, Thinking, Aftermath

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• The fact is that as soon as they reach Baghdad gates, we will besiege them and slaughter them.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Military, Facts

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• There are no American infidels in Baghdad. Never!

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Military, Infidel

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• I can say, and I am responsible for what I am saying, that [American troops] have started to commit suicide under the walls of Baghdad. We will encourage them to commit more suicides quickly.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Suicide, Wall, Troops

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• Before our kids start coming home from Iraq in body bags and women and children start dying in Baghdad, I need to know, what did Iraq do to us?

  Susan Sarandon

  Children, Home, Kids

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If we can rebuild Iraq, we can rebuild Illinois and Indiana and if we can do Baghdad, we can do Baltimore.

  Carol Moseley Braun

  Illinois, Iraq, Indiana

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• You can't just drop the 82nd Airborne into Baghdad and it will all be over.

  Chuck Hagel

  Airborne

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• What they say about a breakthrough is completely an illusion. They are sending their warplanes to fly very low in order to have vibrations on these sacred places.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Military, Order

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• I think unleashing 3,000 smart bombs against the city of Baghdad in the first several days of the war to me, if those were unleashed against the San Francisco Bay Area, I would call that an act of extreme terrorism.

  Pete Stark

  War, Smart, Thinking

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• Our initial assessment is that they will all die.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Military, Assessment

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• I blame al-Jazeera - they are marketing for the Americans!

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Military, Marketing

  "Control Room". Documentary, January 2004.

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• One can describe them as a boa: when it feels threatened, it runs to somewhere else.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Running, Military

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• Until now they have refused to do battle with us. They are just going places.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Military, Battle

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• We counted 19 missiles that landed in a small area of Baghdad.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Military, Missiles

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• Ever since the destruction of Baghdad by the Mongols in 1258, the Muslim world has been in slow decline relative to the west. With Napoleon's invasion of Egypt and the creeping British annexation of Muslim India, that decline took on a malign aspect.

  James Buchan

  Egypt, World, Invasion

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• You take one bomber and deploy him in Baghdad, and another is manufactured in Riyadh the next day. It's exactly like when you take the toy off the shelf at Wal-Mart and another is made in Shen Zhen the next day.

  Thomas Friedman

  Next Day, Riyadh, Bombers

  "Why the World Is Flat". Interview with Daniel H. Pink, www.wired.com. May 1, 2005.

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• My goal in Baghdad was to facilitate a debate here in the United States on America's policy toward Iraq, a debate that's been sadly lacking.

  Scott Ritter

  Iraq, America, Goal

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• One hundred infidels committed suicide as they entered the holy city of Baghdad. Their tanks will become their tombs.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Suicide, Military

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• We haven't really had the time yet to pore through all those records in Baghdad. We'll find ample evidence confirming the link, that is the connection if you will between al Qaida and the Iraqi intelligence services. They have worked together on a number of occasions.

  Dick Cheney

  Intelligence Services, Numbers, Together

  Rocky Mountain News Interview with M.E. Sprengelmeyer, January 9, 2004.

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• I was with the 101st Airborne Division in Iraq, really in the middle of nowhere, about 80 miles south of Baghdad. And it was almost midnight, and I got a computer message from the home office of the Washington Post asking me to call them. I did call them and was told that I'd won the Pulitzer Prize.

  Rick Atkinson

  Home, Iraq, Office

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• I miss aspects of being in the Arab world - the language - and there is a tranquility in these cities with great rivers. Whether it's Cairo or Baghdad, you sit there and you think, 'This river has flown here for thousands of years.' There are magical moments in these places.

  Zaha Hadid

  Thinking, Years, Cities

  Interview With Hannah Pool, www.theguardian.com. March 4, 2009.

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• For five hundred years, Baghdad had been a city of palaces, mosques, libraries and colleges. Its universities and hospitals were the most up-to-date in the world. Nothing now remained but heaps of rubble and a stench of decaying human flesh.

  John Bagot Glubb

  College, Years, Cities

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• By 2040, the Sahara will be moving into Europe and Berlin will be as hot as Baghdad. Atlanta will end up a kudzu jungle. Phoenix will become uninhabitable, as will parts of Beijing (desert), Miami (rising seas) and London (floods). Food shortages will drive millions of people north, raising political tensions.

  James Lovelock

  Moving, Atlanta, Europe

  "James Lovelock, the Prophet" by Jeff Goodell, www.rollingstone.com. November 1, 2007.

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• I firmly believed we should not march into Baghdad ...To occupy Iraq would instantly shatter our coalition, turning the whole Arab
  world against us and make a broken tyrant, into a latter-day Arab hero.

  George H. W. Bush

  Hero, Tyrants, Iraq

  George H. W. Bush, Brent Scowcroft (2011). “A World Transformed”, p.464, Vintage

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