You can't just drop the 82nd Airborne into Baghdad and it will all be over.

- Chuck Hagel

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.

- James Buchan

There is no presence of American infidels in the city of Baghdad.

- Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

There are no American infidels in Baghdad. Never!

- Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

I had no idea what it would be like to be a bomb tech in Baghdad until I got there so I didn't know what to expect. It was very eye-opening.

- Mark Boal