Baghdad Quotes

• Baghdad is determined to force the Mongols of our age to commit suicide at its gates.

  Saddam Hussein

  Suicide, Age, Hussein

  2003 Speech on the anniversary of the Gulf War, 17 Jan.

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• I think in a sense this is a house that was built on a bad foundation. And the foundation was the Americans coming here and allowing the sacking, burning and plunder of Baghdad, for whatever reason.

  Jon Lee Anderson

  Thinking, House, Foundation

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• Today we slaughtered them in the airport. They are out of Saddam International Airport

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Military, Airports

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• Well, I've been to Iraq twice now. I was in Baghdad in June and then north of Baghdad in November.

  Gary Sinise

  Workout, June, Iraq

  "News From CNN" with Fredricka Whitfield, www.cnn.com. March 26, 2004.

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• What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.

  Salvador Dali

  Dream, Wall, Eye

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

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• The force that was in the airport, this force was destroyed.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Military, Airports

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• Yesterday, the Pentagon warned U.S. reporters that they should get out of Baghdad as soon as possible because the U.S. could attack at any time. Then the Pentagon added, 'Whatever you do, don't tell Geraldo.'

  Conan O'Brien

  Yesterday, Should, Pentagon

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• The infidels are committing suicide by the hundreds on the gates of Baghdad... Be assured, Baghdad is safe, protected. Iraqis are heroes.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Suicide, Military

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• ...over the past two days, we managed to shoot down 196 missiles before they hit their target.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Military, Past

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• They will try to enter Baghdad, and I think this is where their graveyard will be.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Military, Thinking

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

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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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• Washington has thrown their soldiers on the fire.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Military, Fire

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• These cowards have no morals. They have no shame about lying.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Military, Lying

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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 American press is all about lies! All they tell is lies, lies and more lies!

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Military, Lying

  "A Gigantic Mistake". Book by Mickey Z., May 17, 2004.

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

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Hands, Hell, Gods Will

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• There is no presence of the American columns in the city of Baghdad at all. We besieged them and we killed most of them.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Military, Cities

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• They are most welcome. We will butcher them.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Military, Welcome

  "Report: U.S. Bags 'Baghdad Bob'", www.foxnews.com. June 25, 2003.

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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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• We will welcome them with bullets and shoes.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Military, Shoes

  "Lopez: Rockets can win with spin" by John P. Lopez, www.chron.com. April 15, 2003.

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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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• 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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• They are going to surrender or be burned in their tanks. They will surrender, it is they who will surrender.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Military, Tanks

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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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