Baghdad Quotes
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In fact, five years ago, after Saddam ejected the UN inspectors, John McCain and I gave up on containment and introduced the Iraqi Liberation Act, which, when it became law, made a change of regime in Baghdad official US policy. You might therefore say that, when it comes to Iraq, President Bush is just enforcing the McCain-Lieberman policy.
Joe Lieberman -
If we can rebuild Iraq, we can rebuild Illinois and Indiana and if we can do Baghdad, we can do Baltimore.
Carol Moseley Braun
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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.
Naji Sabri -
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.
Yaroslav Trofimov -
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 -
The United Nations ... [is] a place for prostitution under the feet of Americans.
Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf -
As has been emphasized vigorously by foreign allies and by responsible leaders of former administrations and incumbent officeholders, there is no current danger to the United States from Baghdad.
Jimmy Carter -
Our military superiority is so great - it's far greater than it was in the Gulf War, and the Gulf War was over in 100 hours after we bombed for 43 days. And so now they can bomb for a couple of days and then just roll into Baghdad... The odds are there's going to be a war and it's going to be not for very long.
Bill Clinton
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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.
Michael Hastings -
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 -
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 -
One can describe them as a boa: when it feels threatened, it runs to somewhere else.
Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf -
There are no American infidels in Baghdad. Never!
Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf -
They [US soldiers] started to commit suicide on the Baghdad walls. We will encourage them to double their suicide attempts.
Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
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Our estimates are that none of them will come out alive unless they surrender to us quickly.
Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf -
These cowards have no morals. They have no shame about lying.
Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf -
We will welcome them with bullets and shoes.
Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf -
Today we slaughtered them in the airport. They are out of Saddam International Airport
Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf