#baghdad

The Americans may think they have 'liberated' Baghdad but the tens of thousands of thieves - they came in families and cruised the city in trucks and cars searching for booty - seem to have a different idea what liberation means. ↗

— Robert Fisk

#booty #came #cars #city #different

That was not part of the U.N. resolution; it was not part of the mandate to go on to Baghdad and, frankly, if we had gone into Baghdad and pushed Saddam Hussein off, we would have inherited an even bigger mess than the mess we inherited with the refugee problem. ↗

— Les Aspin

#bigger #even #frankly #go #gone

There are no American infidels in Baghdad. Never! ↗

— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

#baghdad #infidels #never

There is no presence of American infidels in the city of Baghdad. ↗

— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

#baghdad #city #infidels #presence

The senior officer who met with reporters in Baghdad said there had been 21 car bombings in the capital in May, and 126 in the past 80 days. All last year, he said, there were only about 25 car bombings in Baghdad. ↗

— Rich Lowry

#baghdad #been #bombings #capital #car

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

— Colin Powell

#baghdad #fall #handled #history #i

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? ↗

— Susan Sarandon

#bags #before #body #children #coming

Ever since the destruction of Baghdad by the Mongols in 1258, the Muslim world has been in slow decline relative to the west. With Napoleon's invasion of Egypt and the creeping British annexation of Muslim India, that decline took on a malign aspect. ↗

— James Buchan

#baghdad #been #british #creeping #decline

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. ↗

— Scott Ritter

#baghdad #been #debate #facilitate #goal

But all that having been said, you can't, in a city of a million people like Karbala, or 5 million like Baghdad, you can't be in all places at all times. ↗

— John Abizaid

#been #city #having #like #million