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President George Bush sitater
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Morsomme sitater
Den Irakiske Informasjons Minister, Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf, sitater

Sitater av Presidenten av USA, George Bush

"Let's go."
Those were the words uttered by President Bush to Defense Secretary Donald
Rumsfeld, at 7:12 p.m. EST Wednesday 19. march, that authorized the United
States to begin war with Iraq

"this will not be a campaign of half measures, and we will accept no outcome
except victory."
- President George Bush, addressing the nation 20.march

Sitater av (eks-((?) Presidenten av Iraq, Saddam Hussein

"Long live jihad and long live Palestine."

"You will triumph, O Iraqis, and with you the sons of your Arab nation"

"We pledge to you in our name... that we will resist the invaders."

"We will pursue them until they lose their nerves... Now that they have indulged in their evil and crimes, they will suffer a defeat."

"Iraq will triumph and with Iraq will our Arab nation and mankind also triumph."

- Saddam Hussein,
Appeared on Iraqi TV three hours after the Air-Strike began.

"Today you are standing in a position that would please the friend and would
anger the enemy and all the infidels.
You will be victorious against the enemies and you are causing them to suffer."

"Victory will be ours soon,
Iraqis will strike the necks as God has commanded you."

"Strike them and strike evil so that evil will be defeated."

"After they underestimated you, you Iraqis, now they've come on land; this
attempt is our chance to incur losses on them," 

"They are in a dilemma, they are in trouble now. Hate them and strike them."
- Saddam Hussein, in a speech on Iraqi television. (24.march)

Sitater av Oberstløytnant Tim Collins

"Iraq is steeped in history. It is the site of the Garden of Eden, of the Great Flood and the birthplace of Abraham. Tread lightly there."

"If you are ferocious in battle remember to be magnanimous in victory"

"There may be people among us who will not see the end of this... We will put them in their sleeping bags and send them back, there will be no time for sorrow"

"The enemy should be in no doubt that we are his nemesis and that we are bringing about his rightful destruction."

"It is a big step to take another human life. It is not to be done lightly."
- Lieutenant Colonel Tim Collins to the battlegroup of the 1st Battalion of the Royal Irish at Fort Blair Mayne desert camp, 20 miles from the Iraqi border. (20. march)

Diverse sitater

"We will respect carefully the international humanitarian law and the Geneva Conventions,"
"I hope that the American Army will respect [this] also."
Mohamed Aldouri, Iraq's ambassador to the United Nations
After Al-Jazeera, the Arabic-language satellite network, broadcast pictures
of American soldiers recorded by Iraqi television.

"All things are in God's hands and he doesn't want you for a sunbeam - he wants you for a soldier. He wants you to fight for truth and offer prayer for justice."
- Father Nick Gosnell, chaplain to 16th Air Assault Brigade (16. march)

“The United States of America is a threat to world peace. Because what [America] is saying is that if you are afraid of a veto in the Security Council, you can go outside and take action and violate the sovereignty of other countries. That is the message they are sending to the world. That must be condemned in the strongest terms.”
- Nelson Mandela

“If we invade Iraq and the regime is very close to falling, I'm very, very concerned that the Iraqis will, in fact, use weapons of mass destruction.”
- General Norman Schwarzkopf

"We're in fact on plan. And where we stand today is not, in my view, only acceptable but truly remarkable."
- Commander of US forces Tommy Franks (30 March, BBC News)

"You know - the question of terrorists, when you fight an invader by whatever means available to you, you are not a terrorist, you are a hero."
- Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz  (30 March, BBC News)

"When it is over, if it is over, this war will have horrible consequences. Instead of having one Bin Laden, we will have 100 Bin Ladens."
- Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak (31 March, BBC News)

"Iraqis have taught Bush a lesson that turned his concept upside down."
- Iraq's al-Thawra newspaper (31 March, BBC News)

"Saddam is neither friend, nor brother to us, and he will never pay off debts to us. It's the question of precedent: today the United States doesn't like Iraq, tomorrow Syria, then Iran, North Korea and then what: everyone else?"
- Russian Defence Minister Sergei Ivanov (1 April, BBC News)

"Syria has chosen to align itself with the brotherly Iraqi people who are facing an illegal and unjustified invasion and against whom are being committed all sorts of crimes against humanity."
- Syrian Foreign Ministry spokesperson (1 April, BBC News)

"No one's killing more Iraqis right now than the Iraqi regime."
- Brig. Gen. Vincent Brooks, at a Central Command news conference in Qatar, 1 April

"Retreat might give us a moment of respite but years of repentance at our weakness would, I believe, follow."
- Tony Blair's address to the nation (20 march)

"As so often before on the courage and determination of British men and women serving our country the fate of many nations rest."
- Tony Blair's address to the nation (20 March)

"The money from Iraqi oil will be yours - it will no longer be used by Saddam Hussein for his own benefit"
- Tony Blair's letter to the Iraqis (4 April)

"We promise that the events of 1991 will not happen again - we have pledged to remove Saddam and we will deliver"
- Tony Blair's letter to the Iraqis (4 April)

Morsomme sitater

"When the President says go - Look out, it's hammer time."
- Vice Admiral Timothy Keating (who has obviously never heard of MC Hammer:)

"I wish these people no ill will, really. 
I just wish they would surrender and we could get this all over with."
- Col. Mark Hildenbrand, commander of the 937th Engineer Group

"There's no beer, no prostitutes and people are shooting at us. It's more like Portsmouth" 
- an unnamed soldier on Sky News refutes claims that Iraqi city Umm Qasr is 'like Southampton'.

"Well, I can't say just where we are, but we're not in Kansas anymore."
- Embedded reporter commenting on troop movements (CNN or Fox news)

Yes, General, Laura Cohn with Business Week Magazine. It sounds like you've made some good progress on the oil fields in the south but that you might have a problem once you get to Baghdad. Could you tell us what your plan is to secure the oil fields?
GEN. RENUART: I don't think there's any oil fields in Baghdad.
CENTCOM news briefing, tuesday march 25

Q: Mr. Secretary, what evidence do you have that it's actually working, that
there are actually Iraqis who are heeding this call to --
   Rumsfeld: We have evidence.
   Q: And what sort of evidence is that?
   Rumsfeld: Good evidence.
DoD News Briefing - Secretary Rumsfeld And Gen. Myers, March 20, 

When Rumsfeld yesterday was asked on NBC why the
Iraqi defense ministry was still intact he replied: "Obviously we didn't hit
it."
Washington Post

"As to have they had an effect on us, I'm also pleased to say they had no effect on us. In fact, we destroyed one of the GPS jammers with a GPS weapon."
Major General Victor E. "Gene" Renuart's response to a question about the use of GPS jamming equipment by the Iraqis.
CENTCOM Operation Iraqi Freedom Briefing ~ 25 March 2003

Sitater av den Irakiske Informasjons Ministeren Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf

Jeg har funnet de fleste av disse sitatene på  cnn.com, bbc.com, foxnews.com, nytimes.com, globalresearch.ca,
centcom.mil, diverse nyheter på TV samt en del e-mail.
Det finnes mange falske al-Sahhaf sitater ute på nettet, men jeg har sjekket og verifisert de fleste av disse.

Nye al-Sahhaf sitater:

"He's my man, he was great"
 "Somebody accused us of hiring him and putting him there. He was a classic."
- President George W Bush omal-Sahhaf, (NBC TV)

Torsdag 26 Juni, Al-Arabiya satellite network og Abu Dabi TV.

"The information was correct, but the interpretation was not,"
om sine egne ord....

"The time is not yet ripe to say what happened. When history's ready, then we can talk about it,"
om fallet til Saddam's regime....

"authentic sources - many authentic sources"
om hvor ham fikk sin informasjon fra....

"The military part of our information network - which we were accustomed to rely on for exact information - was the first part of the network to fall apart,"

"It did suffer and it became very weak, while the reporters from Iraqi radio and television stations were more active and had more accurate information."

"It was unworthy of our military sources that they were the first to weaken."

"a difficult situation, not for one individual, but for everybody"
om krigen....

"Everyone could face something that hurts him. But I don't expect that I will be hurt,"
om framtiden....

"Gamle" Sitater:

"We will push those crooks, those mercenaries back into the swamp"
- Just after the Coalition started it's bombing campaign

"With respect to the situation in Al-Faw, the British told big lies. In Al-Faw, our forces' positions remained in place."

"These mercenaries and hirelings kidnapped civilians in the Al-Faw Peninsula so that they might claim that they captured Iraqi soldiers."

"We counted 19 missiles that landed in a small area of Baghdad."
(Coalition forces claimed that over 300 missiles and bombs hit Baghdad that night)

"I think that the Iraqi ground defenses shot down dozens of missiles. We are in the process of counting all these missiles quickly"

"These are not ordinary human beings. They are criminals. As a matter of fact, they are criminals, both by nature and by training. By nature, because they are not decent. They are criminals."
"Big institutions in this imperial state, in this evil US empire, prepare their politicians to become criminals."

"God willing, we will throw them into the sea."

"We will get them stuck in the mud and we will certainly defeat them."
- Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf,  
Al-Jazeera TV 22 March

"A small number of peasants - brave peasants - shot down two Apaches"
- Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf, 24 March

"During the battles last night and at dawn, they [ Ba'th Socialist Party fighters] had destroyed three American helicopters"

".....they had burnt and destroyed around 30 vehicles, including tanks and APC's and damaged three enemy helicopters. God bless the fighters of the Arab Socialist Ba'th Party."

"No one received them [the coalition forces] with roses. 
They were received with bombs, shoes and bullets."
- Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf,  
Al-Jazeera TV 25 March

"Up till now, they are only on dock No. 10, not in Umm Qasr, not in the city,"

"They want to deceive their people first because now they are in a very shabby situation,"

"It's a small town, it has only a few docks ... now they are in a trap."

"Iraqi forces are still in control of the city, and they are engaging in an attrition war with the enemy."
After the British Brig. Jim Dutton said that the southern port city of Umm Qasr, where a fierce battle between dug-in Iraqi forces and coalition fighters raged over the weekend, is in control of coalition forces.

"Americans are now in disarray"

"They try to engage the world as much as they can and we will continue until they leave our land."

"They are again in the dirt in the desert"

"They will try to enter Baghdad, and I think this is where their graveyard will be"
"Their objective is to get to the outskirts of Baghdad. So be it"
"We will see how the issue will turn out when they come to Baghdad."

"Iraq will spread them even more and chop them up."
- Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf, 27 March

"How can you lay siege to a whole country? Who is really under siege now? Baghdad cannot be besieged."

"This boa, the American columns, are being besieged between Basra and other towns north, west, south and west of Basra. The Americans are the people who are under siege."

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

"Until now they have refused to do battle with us. They are just going places."

"One can describe them as a boa: when it feels threatened, it runs to somewhere else."

"The Cruise missiles do not frighten anyone. We are catching them like fish in a river."

"...over the past two days, we managed to shoot down 196 missiles before they hit their target."

"We want to tell him [Blair] that we have not executed anybody. They are either killed in battle, most of them get killed because they are cowards anyway, the rest they just get captured."- Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf,  
Abu Dhabi TV 2022 GMT, 27 March

"Let's go and do jihad"
"Whoever dies will be rewarded by heaven."

"Hit them. Fight them. They are cursed; they are evil"
"We will be victorious, and they will be defeated.

"The Iraqi troops and the Iraqi fighters are in control of all the places, as we have witnessed,
No big change in that. We are fighting against them."

"They are achieving nothing, they are suffering from casualties. Those casualties are increasing, not decreasing,"

"Fight them everywhere. Don't give them a chance to breathe until they withdraw and retreat."
- Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf, 1 April.
In a statement on Iraqi TV

"They are lying every day. They are lying always, and mainly they are lying to their public opinion,"

"What they say about a breakthrough is completely an illusion. They are sending their warplanes to fly very low in order to have vibrations on these sacred places."
- Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf, 2 April

"The authority of the civil defense ... issued a warning to the civilian population not to pick up any of those pencils because they are booby traps,"
"I am not talking about the American people and the British people,
I am talking about those mercenaries. ... They have started throwing those pencils, but they are not pencils, they are booby traps to kill the children."
The Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf said that coalition forces were throwing booby traps in the form of pens and pencils into Iraqi villages and townships.

Al-Sahaf also said the Iraqis have "shot down a lot of those cruise missiles" and said war's impact was "trivial."

"I can assure you that those villains will recognize, will discover in appropriate time in the future how stupid they are and how they are pretending things which have never taken place"
- Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf, 2 April

"They've not been able to control any Iraqi city. We're waging war against this snake and we will be victorious."
"They are going to surrender or be burned in their tanks. They will surrender, it is they who will surrender."
- Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf, 3 April

"Make the land of Islam a burning fire that burns their faces and feet wherever they pass"

"We are determined to defeat them and destroy them on the walls of our capital, as we are determined to destroy their miserable armies in every Muslim spot."
- Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf, 4 April

"The criminals will be humiliated... To hurt the enemy more, raise the level of your attacks."
- Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf, 5 April

"Today we slaughtered them in the airport. They are out of Saddam International Airport,"

"Those who ran away are now outside the distant perimeter wall of the airport. Now they're outside the wall and the heroic Republican Guard is now in control of the whole area of Saddam International Airport. So where are those villainous louts, those mercenaries?"

"The force that was in the airport, this force was destroyed."

"We have crushed the whole force which dared to venture there. They were on the runway at Saddam International Airport. That force was crushed"

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

"They are still trying to bomb with artillery and rocket-propelled grenades to hit the Republican Guard who are controlling Saddam International Airport."

"God willing we'll slaughter them all"
- Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf, 6 April
Al-Sahaf denied the report that U.S. forces had moved into the heart of Baghdad from the south and the southeast, a day after securing the airport, west of the Iraqi capital (5. April).
He said the Republican Guard has control of Saddam International Airport after fighting a fierce battle.
Al-Sahaf said he would take reporters to the airport later in the day, after it was cleaned up.

"The infidels are committing suicide by the hundreds on the gates of Baghdad... Be assured, Baghdad is safe, protected. Iraqis are heroes."

"One hundred infidels committed suicide as they entered the holy city of Baghdad. Their tanks will become their tombs."

"We will in fact encourage them to commit more suicides. We have given them death and poison."

"There is no presence of the American columns in the city of Baghdad at all. We besieged them and we killed most of them."

"As our leader Saddam Hussein said, "God is grilling their stomachs in hell.""

"The soldiers of Saddam Hussein have given them a lesson they will never forget,"

"These mercenaries, I swear by God, those who are still in Washington, they have sent their troops to be burned."

"The Americans, they always depend on a method what I call ... stupid, silly. All I ask is check yourself. Do not in fact repeat their lies."

 “Don't repeat the lies of the liars.”
- Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf, 7 April
With American tanks occupying the Baghdad parade ground, he stood calmly a couple of hundred yards away, on the roof of the Palestine Hotel, to tell reporters that none of this was really happening.

Miscellaneous funny quotes by the Iraqi Information Minister
(I've not been able to verify these (yet))

"We will welcome them with bullets and shoes."
- Iraqi Information Minister, Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf

My feelings - as usual - we will slaughter them all.

Our initial assessment is that they will all die.

These cowards have no morals. They have no shame about lying.

We will slaughter them; Bush Junior, and his international gang of bastards!

The insane little dwarf, Bush.

The midget, Bush, and that Rumsfield deserve only to be beaten with shoes by freedom loving people everywhere.

Bush is a very stupid man. The American people are not stupid, they are very clever. I can't understand how such clever people came to elect such a stupid president.

Bush, Blair and Rumsfeld; they are the funny trio.

There are no American infidels in Baghdad. Never!

I blame Al-Jazeera. They are marketing for the Americans.

The American press is all about lies! All they tell is lies, lies and more lies!

Let the American infidels bask in their illusion.

They are most welcome. We will butcher them.

Saddam Hussein's soldiers and his great forces gave the Americans a lesson which will not be forgotten by history. Truly.

Washington has thrown their soldiers on the fire.

I speak better English than this villain, Bush.

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

They are becoming hysterical. This is the result of frustration.

They think we are retarded. They are retarded.

Yesterday, we slaughtered them and we will continue to slaughter them.

Today, the tide has turned, we are destroying them.