We're giving them a real lesson today. Heavy doesn't accurately describe the level of casualties we have inflicted.
Search for the truth. I tell you things and I always ask you to verify what I say. I told you yesterday that there was an attack and a retreat at Saddam's airport.
We counted 19 missiles that landed in a small area of Baghdad.
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.
People get upset when Baghdad, the "Cradle of Civilization" is burning, or when the Buddhas in Afghanistan are falling. These are real concerns.
A troop surge in Baghdad would put more American troops at risk to address a problem that is not a military problem.
There are neighborhoods in Baghdad where you and I could walk through those neighborhoods today.
This boa, the American columns, are being besieged between Basra and other towns north, west, south and west of Basra… Now even the American command is under siege. We are hitting it from the north, east, south and west. We chase them here and they chase us there. But at the end we are the people who are laying siege to them. And it is not them who are besieging us.
But almost any place is Baghdad if you don't know what will happen in it.
We butchered the force present at the airport, we are destroying them.
The United Nations. . . [is] a place for prostitution under the feet of Americans.
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. Then the Pentagon added, 'Whatever you do, don't tell Geraldo. '
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 invasion of Egypt and the creeping British annexation of Muslim India, that decline took on a malign aspect.
There were a hundred booksellers in the old round city founded by the eighth-century caliph al-Mansur. The café and wine-drinking culture of Baghdad has been famous for centuries; there was a whole school of Iraqi poets who wrote poems about the wine bars of medieval Baghdad - the khamriyaat, or wine songs, that I quote in the book.
I wonder which of the megaton bombs Jesus, our President's personal savior, would have personally dropped on the sleeping families of Baghdad?
I report the truth of what is happening here in Baghdad and will not apologize for it.
There is no reason at all why there aren't enough people to guard New Orleans and to help stabilise Baghdad.
If the U. N. secretary-general withdraws the inspectors from Baghdad. . . this means that the secretary-general has abandoned its own responsibility in maintaining peace and security in the world.
It has been rumored that we have fired scud missiles into Kuwait. I am here now to tell you, we do not have any scud missiles and I don't know why they were fired into Kuwait.
There has been no electricity in Baghdad for a week and the people are angry. You would be angry too if you couldn't watch your brand new stolen TV.
