63 Quotes About Baghdad

Baghdad is bustling with commerce. Universities and hospitals are open for business, ... A free press is flourishing, Iraqi banks have started taking applications for small business loans so Iraqi entrepreneurs can create jobs.

While we transferred sovereignty today, we need to be honest with the American people that this struggle is far from over, ... Security in Iraq is worse now than it was right after the fall of Baghdad and may deteriorate further. The Iraqi security forces cannot handle the challenge alone, reconstruction has barely started, and massive unemployment has left many frustrated and even desperate.

There are people in Baghdad pursuing the initiative that I started, and I want to give them every chance of success. I don't want to provide any distractions.

When these people are released - and I believe they will be - they will be dumped onto the streets of Baghdad and the only place they will have to go is back to our apartment. We have to have someone there.

We are obviously seeing a major onslaught by the terrorists on Baghdad and some other Iraqi cities.

This is not going to be the re-fight of the Gulf War, with tanks rolling through the desert and ... the war being declared over well before you ever get to Baghdad. Baghdad is the prize of this campaign.

I honestly don't know whether a city of 4 million such as Baghdad could develop a defense concept on the basis of such a sketch.

No country, including the US, would dare stop Baghdad from approaching Tehran since Iraq is an independent state,

that fought us up until the fall of Baghdad and continues to fight afterwards.