Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf Quotes

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

As to the war, while it is always thought rash to have any strong military convictions, I have always believed that if they would go straight to Sebastopol early in the season they would take it with little difficulty.

War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.

It is apparent that the Japanese military have initiated a widely extended movement of aggression only after careful preparation with a strategic goal in mind

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.

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

If there is no direct threat why are we invading?

One of the main purveyors of violence in this world has been this country.

During war, the laws are silent.

They’re invading.

To take by force any place in possession of another nation, whatever our claim to that place might be, is war.

A state under aerial bombardment need only survive until the bombardment stops. A state under occupation … risks never regaining control of its territory.

When you besiege a city with guns and aircraft, you are driving the good citizens and the bad elements together.

We are forced to invade—we must keep the War South, till they are not only ruined, exhausted, but humbled in pride and spirit.

A siege is an act of war.

I have need of Rigaud. He is violent. I want him for carrying on war; and that war is necessary to me.

It won't take weeks... Our military machine will crush Iraq in a matter of days and there's no question that it will.

To a people warlike and indigent, an incursion into a rich country is never hurtful.

This policy cannot succeed through speeches, and shooting-matches, and songs; it can only be carried out through blood and iron.

When a country is invaded and attacked and people resist it's important to speak up and to say they have the right to resist and to defend their right to resist.

God willing, we will throw them into the sea.

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

Writing books for me is anyway much like a military campaign. I confess to fighting my way through with military metaphors. There is a strategy, an overall concept, and there are tactics along the way…Tradition would say I was a 'child of Mars.'

They are still trying to bomb with artillery and rocket-propelled grenades to hit the Republican Guard who are controlling Saddam International Airport.

The Conqueror is always a lover of peace: he would prefer to take over our country unopposed.