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The Very Best Of Minister al-Sahaf (the former Iraqi {mis}Information Minister

* “These cowards have no morals. They have no shame about lying.”

* “Our estimates are that none of them will come out alive unless they surrender to us quickly. They are completely surrounded now.”

* “They have no foothold in Iraq. We will welcome them with bullets and shoes."

* “God will roast their stomachs in hell at the hands of Iraqis."

* “Blair and Bush, they are cowboys – international terrorists, bastards."

* “We surrounded their forces with our special Republican Guards and we are finishing them off."

* "They are trapped in Umm Qasr. They are trapped near Basra. They are trapped near Nasiriya. They are trapped near Najaf. They are trapped everywhere."

* “They will fail, I am sure, they will fail even to come near to Baghdad."

* “They are 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."

* "They are a snake that is stretched over 500 km, we would like to stretch them even further and then start to chop them up."

* “The situation is excellent, they are going to try to approach Baghdad...and I believe their grave will be there.”

* "Republican Guards are still tightening the noose around the U.S. enemy.”

* "We defeated them yesterday. God willing, I will provide you with more information. I swear by God, I swear by God, those who are staying in Washington and London have thrown these mercenaries in a crematorium."

* “The louts fled. The American louts fled”

* "I think it will become obvious to the world that they have entered Iraq with a kind of stupidity based on a simple idea that 'shock and awe' will make Iraqis kneel. These cruise missiles don't scare anyone. We fish them out like fish out of water."

* "I am talking about those mercenaries. ... They have started throwing those pencils, but they are not pencils, they are booby traps."

* “We will push those crooks, those mercenaries back into the swamp."

* “We made them drink poison last night and Saddam Hussein's soldiers and his great forces gave the Americans a lesson which will not be forgotten by history. Truly."

* “I can say, and I am responsible for what I am saying, that they have started to commit suicide under the walls of Baghdad. We will encourage them to commit more suicides quickly."

* "Today we slaughtered them in the airport. They are out of Saddam International Airport. The force that was in the airport, this force was destroyed."

* "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."

* “They [Blair and Bush] are not worth the sole of an old shoe.”

* “They lie every day. Therefore, what they say or allege about success and advances are illusions."

* "Baghdad is in full control by Iraqi forces."

* “No, I am not scared...and neither should you be!"

* “There is no presence of American infidels in the city of Baghdad at all. The infidels are committing suicide by the hundreds on the gates of Baghdad. Yesterday we slaughtered them and we will continue to slaughter them. Don't believe those liars. As our leader Saddam Hussein said, 'God is grilling their stomachs in hell'."

* “We besieged them and we killed most of them. We will finish them soon. My feelings? As usual, we will slaughter them all. Their tombs will be here in Iraq. They have no control even on themselves.”