Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf Quotes

Make a silver bridge for a fleeing enemy.

Military men predominated and gave no thought to the larger situation. They knew how to advance but not how to retreat.

A defection is better than a surrender, a surrender is better than a capture, and a capture is better than a kill.

Better build them a golden bridge than offer a decisive battle.

I would never crawl into a secret space to avoid the frustrating things.

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.

If I could give advice to anyone, it would be that sometimes the best way you can fight a problem - and this is going to be a little bit controversial - is to not address it.

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

Our reluctance for conflict should not be misjudged as a failure of will.

The hardest thing of all for a soldier is to retreat.

We must take the battle to the enemy, disrupt his plans, and confront the worst threats before they emerge.

It is a principle of the art of war that one should simply lay down his life and strike. If one's opponent also does the same, it is a even match. Defeating one's opponent is then a matter of faith and destiny.

The business of a general is to kick away the ladder behind soldiers when they have climbed up a height.

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

I agree with Pres. Barack Obama, Iraqis need a political solution. No war in Iraq!

Life is like invading Russia. A blitz start, massed shakos, plumes dancing like a flustered henhouse; a period of svelte progress recorded in ebullient despatches as the enemy falls back; then the beginning of a long, morale-sapping trudge with rations getting shorter and the first snowflakes upon your face. The enemy burns Moscow and you yield to General January, whose fingernails are very icicles. Bitter retreat. Harrying Cossacks. Eventually you fall beneath a boy-gunner's grapeshot while crossing some Polish river not even marked on your general's map.

Cinematography, a military art. Prepare a film like a battle.

Man is but mortal: and there is a point beyond which human courage cannot extend. Mr. Pickwick gazed through his spectacles for an instant on the advancing mass, and then fairly turned his back and-we will not say fled; firstly, because it is an ignoble term, and, secondly, because Mr. Pickwick's figure was by no means adapted for that mode of retreat-he trotted away, at as quick a rate as his legs would convey him;.

Some years ago - never mind how long precisely - having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world.

I find in myself a need to get very away.

The onset of bayonets in the hands of the valiant is irresistible.

The best fights are the ones we avoid.

Cavalry is useful before, during, and after the battle.