Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf Quotes

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

Now, 'high-intensity conflict' is a fancy word for saying tanks on tanks, aircraft shooting each other out of the sky, a great deal of violence at a level we haven't seen since probably the Korean War or World War II, where you have big armies facing off against one another.

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

I could have become a soldier if I had waited; I knew more about retreating than the man who invented retreating.

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

In war it does not matter who is right, but who is left.

If there is a war to be fought, we don’t consider cost one of the factors in deciding whether or not to fight.

You can bring your enemies to their knees with the possible exception of the North Vietnamese.

My call is the call of battle- I nourish active rebellion;/ He going with me must go well armed.

Oh, go in anywhere Colonel, go in anywhere. You'll find lovely fighting all along the line.

War is the science of destruction.

For the most part, everybody who fights in war fights to survive.

Suddenly, at about ten o'clock, a dull thud sounded somewhere far away from us, and simultaneously we saw a small white round cloud about half a mile ahead of us where the shrapnel had exploded. The battle had begun.

War is the trade of Kings.

In strife who inquires whether stratagem or courage was used?

On my left the shooting had the sharp explosion of the infantry artillery, on my right could be heard the sporadic cannon shots thundering from the front, and up above the sky was clear and the sun bright.

Instead of a few hundreds of thousands of men meeting each other in war, millions would now meet, and modern weapons would multiply manifold the power of destruction.

History has been the history of warfare.

This bloody past suggests to us that enemies cease hostilities only when they are battered enough to acknowledge that there is no hope in victory - and thus that further resistance means only useless sacrifice.

The big battle at the end of DW isn't drawn from history, but it's influenced by history, certainly.

The events of war are subject to great uncertainty.

Not since Crassus and the campaign against the Parthaginians was there such an incompetent a general as Shafter….

We’re not going to win this war through polling.

What the hell is going on? I thought we were winning the war.

We cannot afford to be idle, and though weaker than our opponents in men and military equipments, must endeavor to harass if we cannot destroy them.