Baghdad Quotes - Page 2

• It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure, to which Baghdad could be given as a parameter.

  Nathaniel Borenstein

  Writing, Ethics, Language

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• Just look carefully, I only want you to look carefully. Do not repeat the lies of liars. Do not become like them. Once again, I blame al-Jazeera before it ascertains what takes place. Please, make sure of what you say and do not play such a role.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Liars, Lying, Play

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• They fled. The American louts fled. Indeed, concerning the fighting waged by the heroes of the Arab Socialist Baath Party yesterday, one amazing thing really is the cowardice of the American soldiers. we had not anticipated this.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Party, Hero, Fighting

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• Yesterday, we slaughtered them and we will continue to slaughter them.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Military, Yesterday

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• I can assure you that those villains will recognize, will discover in appropriate time in the future how stupid they are and how they are pretending things which have never taken place

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Military, Stupid

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• I am not talking about the American people and the British people, I am talking about those mercenaries. ... They have started throwing those pencils, but they are not pencils, they are booby traps to kill the children.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Children, Military

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• We're giving them a real lesson today. Heavy doesn't accurately describe the level of casualties we have inflicted.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Real, Giving, Levels

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• W. Bush, this man is a war criminal, and we will see that he is brought to trial.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  War, Men, Criminals

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• Their objective is to get to the outskirts of Baghdad. So be it.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Military, Objectives

  "Iraq says Baghdad will be coalition's graveyard", www.cnn.com. March 27, 2003.

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• We will see how the issue will turn out when they come to Baghdad.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Military, Issues

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• This boa, the American columns, are being besieged between Basra and other towns north, west, south and west of Basra. The Americans are the people who are under siege.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Military, People

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• God will roast their stomachs in hell at the hands of Iraqis.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Hands, Hell, Gods Will

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• You can go and visit those places. Nothing there, nothing at all. There are Iraqi checkpoints. Everything is okay.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Okay, Checkpoints

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• When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush were scratching around in caves.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Writing, Law, Caves

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• We want to tell him [Blair] that we have not executed anybody. They are either killed in battle, most of them get killed because they are cowards anyway, the rest they just get captured.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Military, Coward

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• The Cruise missiles do not frighten anyone. We are catching them like fish in a river.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Military, Rivers

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• The authority of the civil defense ... issued a warning to the civilian population not to pick up any of those pencils because they are booby traps.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Military, Population

  "Iraqi official: U.S. lying about progress". www.cnn.com. April 2, 2003.

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• The American public overwhelmingly regrets ObamaCare, our veterans are dying waiting to see doctors, the IRS intimidates conservative groups, the southern border is compared to a sieve and the president assures us not to worry - smiling, golfing and at this very moment partying... Because the fundraising never stops - not when four Americans die in Benghazi, and not when Baghdad is at the brink.

  Megyn Kelly

  Regret, Party, Obamacare

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• There was a transition going on - Baghdad being the intellectual capital of the world where major advances were made in agriculture and mathematics and engineering and medicine and astronomy, and then that all sort of collapsed. And I was trying to understand how such a intellectually fertile environment can lose its compass bearing. Because I think about the creative centers today - countries, or even regions. Will Silicon Valley always be as innovative? Will the United States be innovative, or will we become complacent?

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Country, Thinking, Engineering

  Source: bookriot.com

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• Let's see what's going on over in Iraq. A Burger King has opened up and prostitutes are back on the street of Baghdad after 20 years. Fast food and hookers - they are truly living the American Dream.

  David Letterman

  Dream, Kings, Years

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• There hasn't been a lot written about it in the Western media. But in the Arab world, and Western Asia as a whole, Baghdad was always known as a famously bookish, intellectual city. There's an old saying that Cairo writes, Beirut publishes, and Baghdad reads.

  Annia Ciezadlo

  Writing, Media, Cities

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• How can you lay siege to a whole country? Who is really under siege now? Baghdad cannot be besieged.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Country, Military

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• We will push those crooks, those mercenaries back into the swamp

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Military, Crooks

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• My feelings - as usual - we will slaughter them all.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Military, Feelings

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• My dad's Israeli. He was born in Baghdad to Iraqi Jews. Then, at age two, his parents wanted to move to their homeland and he grew up in Israel. I've been there twice, once as a baby and once when I was 15.

  Elliott Yamin

  Baby, Dad, Moving

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