When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush were scratching around in caves.

No one received them [the coalition forces] with roses. They were received with bombs, shoes and bullets.

They've not been able to control any Iraqi city. We're waging war against this snake and we will be victorious.

Iraqi forces are still in control of the city, and they are engaging in an attrition war with the enemy.

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.

There are no American infidels in Baghdad. Never!

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