Baghdad Quotes

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

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

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.

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

It has been rumored that we have fired scud missiles into Kuwait. I am here now to tell you, we do not have any scud missiles and I don't know why they were fired into Kuwait.

I deeply regret to say that terrorism has become globalized: ' From New York to Mosul, from Damascus to Baghdad, from the Easternmost to the Westernmost parts of the world, from Al-Qaeda to Daesh'. The extremists of the world have found each other and have put out the call: 'extremists of the world unite'. But are we united against the extremists?

We butchered the force present at the airport, we are destroying them.

A woman I loved [Andi Parhamovich] was killed in Baghdad in January 2007 – al-Qaeda in Iraq took credit for it … The memorial service with me crying over an empty coffin.

There are no American infidels in Baghdad. Never!

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

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.

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

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

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

Search for the truth. I tell you things and I always ask you to verify what I say. I told you yesterday that there was an attack and a retreat at Saddam's airport.

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

This boa, the American columns, are being besieged between Basra and other towns north, west, south and west of Basra… Now even the American command is under siege. We are hitting it from the north, east, south and west. We chase them here and they chase us there. But at the end we are the people who are laying siege to them. And it is not them who are besieging us.

I think that we live in a remarkably networked world. The problem with that, of course, is that tensions can travel in nanoseconds across the Internet, and so the tensions between Shiites and Sunnis in Baghdad, or between Protestants and Catholics in Belfast - those show up in different parts of the world.

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.'

We killed 6 innocent people, launching 22, I think $3 million apiece missiles on Baghdad...that's a little bit overdoing it.

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

They are most welcome. We will butcher them.

Our estimates are that none of them will come out alive unless they surrender to us quickly.

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

I [Death] was astonished to see him in Baghdad, for I had an appointment with him tonight in Samarra.

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.

The United Nations ... [is] a place for prostitution under the feet of Americans.

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

I would rather go to Baghdad than go to a professional basketball game.

There has been no electricity in Baghdad for a week and the people are angry. You would be angry too if you couldn't watch your brand new stolen TV.

If the U.N. secretary-general withdraws the inspectors from Baghdad ... this means that the secretary-general has abandoned its own responsibility in maintaining peace and security in the world.

I report the truth of what is happening here in Baghdad and will not apologize for it.

I'm glad the President finally found an economic development program. I'm just sad that it's only in Baghdad.

There is no reason at all why there aren't enough people to guard New Orleans and to help stabilise Baghdad.

He would have lied to himself as facilely as an alcoholic lies to himself to justify the 10 a.m. tumbler of vodka : it may be early here, but in Baghdad it's almost evening.

Workers are actually being starved on the largest military base in Baghdad, and women are being raped with impunity - and because it doesn't fit into a Hollywood context it's not going to fly.

There are neighborhoods in Baghdad where you and I could walk through those neighborhoods today.

The electricity is back on in Baghdad. That is a very climactic moment in any country's liberation, when the lights come back on and you get a good look at what you looted.

Am I responsible or are you', a senior official asked his pilot, dubiously beginning a flight to Baghdad, 'for seeing that this machine is not overloaded?' 'That will have to be decided at the inquest.

But almost any place is Baghdad if you don't know what will happen in it.

I think in Baghdad, any westerner, journalist or not, has a big dollar sign on his or her forehead. So, first and foremost, you are a ticket to unimaginable wealth. And that makes any trips out of the safe zones very risky.

When you get to the point where Baghdad is basically isolated, then what is the situation you have in the country? .. You have a country that Baghdad no longer controls; that whatever's happening inside Baghdad is almost irrelevant compared to what's going on in the rest of the country.

Pushing legislation that would undercut our troops just as we're beginning to make progress in Baghdad.

We seem to be afraid to give the Kurds weaponry. We like to send it for some strange reason through Baghdad, and then they only get a tenth of it.

How will the bombing of Baghdad, a city of five million, accomplish a regime change?

It's always sort of amazing, sitting in Baghdad, to watch visiting dignitaries being received in the Green Zone by politicians who have usually very little support and seldom go outside the Green Zone.

In the age of the internet when everybody's a pundit, we're still gonna need somebody there to go talk to the colonels, to be on the ground in Baghdad and stuff and that's very expensive.

Saddam Hussein also challenged President Bush to a debate. The Butcher of Baghdad vs. the Butcher of the English language.