Baghdad Quotes

Baghdad Quote of the day

We know where they are. They are in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad.

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

We know where they are [Iraq's weapons of mass destruction]. They're in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north somewhat.

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

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 wonder which of the megaton bombs Jesus, our President's personal savior, would have personally dropped on the sleeping families of Baghdad?

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

There are no American infidels in Baghdad. Never!

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.

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.

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

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

They [US soldiers] started to commit suicide on the Baghdad walls. We will encourage them to double their suicide attempts.

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

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.

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.

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

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

The day that I can land at the airport in Baghdad and ride in an unarmed car down the highway to the Green Zone is the day that I'll start considering withdrawals from Iraq.

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

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

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

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

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?

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.

So has the strategic decision been made to disarm Iraq of its weapons of mass destruction by the leadership in Baghdad? I think our judgment has to be clearly not.

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

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

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

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

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

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

They are most welcome. We will butcher them.

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

These poor kids in Baghdad have no running water, no showers. They wipe with baby wipes. My heart goes out to them.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Well, Ramadi is a provincial capital of Anbar province. It's a sprawling city west of Baghdad. It's a poor city, endless cinderblock houses and high-rises almost as far as the eye can see.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

A troop surge in Baghdad would put more American troops at risk to address a problem that is not a military problem.

The only thing I've ever regretted is not writing more; not being more honest; not saying how it really is in Baghdad. It's hard to get there sometimes.

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.