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.
There are many dangerous areas of Baghdad for our armed forces that remain, there are many other cities in Iraq that are dangerous ... where armed conflict could result,
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.
Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.
All the 151 international (humanitarian) staff who left on November 11 and 12 and were temporarily relocated to Amman have been asked to return to Baghdad today.
All the roads in Baghdad are closed, so he figured he'd probably spend his last night at the airport before flying to Kuwait, then to Fort Benning (in Georgia) and then to New York City. He thinks he'll be home by next weekend, after he's debriefed about the war.
If one's memories of Baghdad women were only of those to be seen in the streets, they would be of leathery, wrinkled faces, prematurely old, figures which have lost all shape, and henna-stained hands crinkled and deformed by toil.
Today's message to Baghdad is very clear: the UN Security Council resolution expresses the unity and determination of the entire international community to assume its collective responsibility.
The Cruise missiles do not frighten anyone. We are catching them like fish in a river.
Until now they have refused to do battle with us. They are just going places.