Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf Quotes

History has been the history of warfare.

Some have called Afghanistan 'the graveyard of empires,' and it probably is the graveyard of empires.

We are conditioned to regard warfare as something exciting and even glamorous.

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

The war in Iraq was unwinnable.

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

They are going to surrender or be burned in their tanks. They will surrender, it is they who will surrender.

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

If the invaders reach Iran, the country will turn into a burning hell for them.

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

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.

The Middle East is undoubtedly in for a rocky time. In Palestine we have a situation which is badly fouled up by the past mistakes of many people, including ourselves. These probably cannot be settled without great unpleasantness, including violence.

Insurgencies are nearly as old as warfare itself.

We cannot go on fighting a war for small hills.

Wars ruin armies.

If you guys don’t go through the enemy in six weeks, we’ll disown you. But then the hard work begins... We have lit a fuse, and we don’t know what’s at the other end- a nuke, a hand grenade, or a dud?

Anybody who has experienced war will never want to do it again unless they have to. But if we’re going to do it, we have to be damn good at it.

The fact is, the Middle East has been going crazy for 50, 60, 70 years. So it's not like, 'Oh, I need an ISIS joke.'

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.

When people refer to a cage fight as war, I think it's kinda cute... A war, huh? You know what a war is? They, evidently, don't. It's not maybe their place to know what it is, but I do.

War is a crucial, deeply ingrained part of human history. It has to be understood.

Their casualties and bodies are many. Their equipment and vehicles, several were destroyed.

No one received them [the coalition forces] with roses. They were received with bombs, shoes and bullets.

It needs but one foe to breed a war, and those who have not swords can still die upon them.