Did the Iraqi government ever think thye could really win and do you think that they will ever admit defeat? I keep seeing all these quotes from them like they expect at any minute they will be victorious. Kind of like that Black Knight dude in Monty Pyton.
or"The criminals will be humiliated," minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf said in the message which he read on Iraqi television.
"You must inflict more wounds on this enemy and fight it and deprive it of the victories it has achieved... you must rattle their joints and terrify them and speedily defeat them in and around Baghdad."
and the best one yet"It is a complete defeat ... Amazingly the Americans have pushed the British to do that. They pushed them ahead as if it is an experiment. The result was very tragic for the British," Sahaf said.
I bet even Allah is like "Stay down you fools!"Information Minister said on Saturday that Baghdad was firmly under Iraqi control and denied U.S. reports that troops had reached the center of the capital.