Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf Quotes

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

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

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

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've not been able to control any Iraqi city. We're waging war against this snake and we will be victorious.

We are determined to defeat them and destroy them on the walls of our capital, as we are determined to destroy their miserable armies in every Muslim spot.

God willing, we will throw them into the sea.

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

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

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

In war, indeed, there can be no substitute for victory.

Having been in the military myself, there is an awful moment when you're in this moment of conflict.

The real peril of war lies not in military defeat. It lies in war itself, whether we win or lose.

For the victor peace means the preservation of the position of power which he has secured. For the vanquished it means resigning himself to the position left to him.

Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.

Our embedded reporters during the war agreed to guidelines established by the military.

We don't know what may yet happen to us, what military and political defeats we may yet have to face.

If a war has to happen, a war has to happen.

There was a moment when I simply understood that this war cannot be won.

From a military point of view it was a complete success

One minute can decide the outcome of the battle, one hour - the outcome of the campaign, and one day - the fate of the country.

I spent several months patrolling Al Dora district in Baghdad in 2006 with the 101st Airborne. It's a tough neighborhood. There's a lot of militias operating there, including a lot of Shiite militias, which are backed by Iran.

There is nothing that a military machine can do to work a miracle.

We never want to update 'Black Watch,' because it's about a moment in time, and through that moment, it manages to speak about Afghanistan and all other wars. This play is 'about' Iraq, but it's actually about every war that's ever been or will ever be.

I'm not a war reporter.