Best Baghdad Sayings
91 Baghdad quotes by 70 unique authors
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I think unleashing 3,000 smart bombs against the city of Baghdad in the first several days of the war to me, if those were unleashed…
— Pete Stark
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But almost any place is Baghdad if you don't know what will happen in it.
— Edna Ferber
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My goal in Baghdad was to facilitate a debate here in the United States on America's policy toward Iraq, a debate that's been sadly lacking.
— Scott Ritter
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Iran is also engaged in the fight against ISIL for reasons of its own that include a desire not to see a reasonably friendly government…
— David Ignatius
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Ever since the destruction of Baghdad by the Mongols in 1258, the Muslim world has been in slow decline relative to the west. With Napoleon's…
— James Buchan
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For some reason, the military seems more afraid of gay people than they are against terrorists, but they're very brave with the terrorists... If the…
— Gary Ackerman
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You can't just drop the 82nd Airborne into Baghdad and it will all be over.
— Chuck Hagel
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I miss aspects of being in the Arab world - the language - and there is a tranquility in these cities with great rivers. Whether…
— Zaha Hadid
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My dad's Israeli. He was born in Baghdad to Iraqi Jews. Then, at age two, his parents wanted to move to their homeland and he…
— Elliott Yamin
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You take one bomber and deploy him in Baghdad, and another is manufactured in Riyadh the next day. It's exactly like when you take the…
— Thomas Friedman
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What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the…
— Salvador Dali
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Yesterday, the Pentagon warned U.S. reporters that they should get out of Baghdad as soon as possible because the U.S. could attack at any time.…
— Conan O'Brien
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I don't think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that's now history.
— Colin Powell
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These poor kids in Baghdad have no running water, no showers. They wipe with baby wipes. My heart goes out to them.
— Kid Rock
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Before our kids start coming home from Iraq in body bags and women and children start dying in Baghdad, I need to know, what did…
— Susan Sarandon
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Had the United States and the United Kingdom gone on alone to capture Baghdad, under the provisions of the Geneva and Hague conventions we would…
— Norman Schwarzkopf
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I wonder which of the megaton bombs Jesus, our President's personal savior, would have personally dropped on the sleeping families of Baghdad?
— Meryl Streep
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As a nation, Kuwait has been, arguably, free of freedom itself. Claimed in turn by Constantinople, Riyadh, and Baghdad, Kuwait has survived by playing Turks…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad…
— Farnaz Fassihi
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In 2004, Kucinich was the only presidential candidate who warned that a war in Iraq would be completely disastrous. I remember how mocked he was…
— Marianne Williamson
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The U.S. is not constructing a palatial embassy, by far the largest in the world and virtually a separate city within Baghdad, and pouring money…
— Noam Chomsky
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Enclosed by a sand berm four miles around and 160 feet high, the Baghdad Nuclear Research Facility entombs what remains of reactors bombed by Israel…
— Barton Gellman
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The Iraqi government will try and retake some of the cities have that been captured by ISIS. That means the Shiite government dropping bombs on…
— Richard Engel
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In late 2009, I returned to Baghdad after a lengthy absence. I was living alone, in the Hamra Hotel, the twice bombed-out de facto international…
— Michael Hastings
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There is no presence of American infidels in the city of Baghdad.
— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
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