| Understanding
Basic Iraqi |
Iraq
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TV
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| Al Jezeera, ...., Al
Jazeera, ... Al Jazera, ...., Al Jazzeera, .... , Al Jazzera, ..... ,
Arab, ..... , Arabic, ..... , Muslim, ..... , Muhammad Sa'id al-Sahhaf,
... |
| Many are having a tough time
sorting out the facts in these tough times. This can be particularly
hard in trying to understand news from abroad from different
cultures. To help with this, the following translations to colloquial
English are provided. |
| ..., Islam, ..., Islamic,
..., Muslim Fundamentalist, ..., terrorist, ...., suicide bomber, ...., martyr,
....PLO, ...., Iran, .... |
| These translations are of
common phrases and quotes of the government of Iraq's Ministry Of
Information. They are intended to help understanding of the true
meaning often lost in the translation of government speak from a foreign
language. |
| ..., propaganda, ..., lie,
..., fib, ..., false, ..., made up news, ...., New York Times, ..., LA
Times, ...., Village Voice, ... |
| Common Translations |
| ..., communication,
..., message, ..., word, ..., report, ..., statement,
..., bulletin, ..., dispatch, ..., document, ... |
| Phrase : "America will face the mother of all battles again if it attack
Iraq." ( the bad grammar is his ) 2a |
| Translation : "They'll
kick our behind again." |
| Iraq Interests Section In Washington, D.C. 1801 P Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036 Telephone: (202) 483-7500 Fax: (202) 462-5066 |
| Quote : "...
Go use sword. Draw your sword, and I'm not afraid. .... And pull your trigger and keep the fire on....."
2a ( Apr. 20 2003 ) |
| Translation : "I
am in my nice German built and French furnished bunker." |
| world, ....,
embassies,..., consulates,..., website, ..., contact
details,..., foreign affairs, ..., tourist, ... |
| Quote :
"....Let thunderstorms go until the guidance appears, and injustice goes away. And let dawn be the way to confront all
bad....." 2a ( Apr. 20
2003 ) |
| Translation : "Let
cruise missiles go until the guidance appears over Iraq and injustice goes
away. 'By the dawn's early light ...' Opps, wrong anthem
..." |
| Iraq Embassy, .., Iraq Embassy,
..., str. Polona nr. 8, Bucharest, + 40 1 211.08.35, + 40 1 211.31.79, + 40 1 211.53.14 |
| Quote : "...
we pledge that we will confront the invaders and we will get them to, God willing, to the limit where they will lose their patience...."
2a ( Apr. 20 2003 ) |
| Translation : "...
we will pretend to fight until, Jacques Chirac willing, the protestors will save our behind ..... |
| Telex: 11686 Fax: + 40 1 210.04.77 |
| Quote : "....We love peace and we are working towards this peace...."
2a ( Apr. 20 2003 ) |
| Translation :
"I'm lying; watch my lips move." |
| ..., Senate Democratic Leader Tom Daschle,
..., December 9, 1947, ..., in Aberdeen, South Dakota, ... |
| Quote : "
.... Draw your sword. No one will be victorious unless he is a man, and a brave man. And prepare a banner and call for the will of God that the wounds will heal quickly.
..." 2a
( Apr. 20 2003 ) |
| Translation : "...
Oh God, this is going to hurt! ..." |
| .., Congressional Career,
.., 1978, .., Daschle, .., South Dakota, .., U.S. House of Representatives,
.., 1986, .. |
| Quote : "We have no such weapons at all, no chemical weapons, no biological weapons."
2a ( Apr. 20 2003 ) |
| Translation : "
Using the Clinton definition of 'we', my wife and I have none, but our
aides have tons." |
| .., U.S. Senate, ...., Daschle,
.., Junior Senator from South Dakota, ... , Senior Senator and Democratic
Leader, .... |
| Phrase : Iraqi
citizens have "a duty to join in a jihad, or holy war, and that martyrs would be rewarded in heaven."
1a |
| Translation :
"All subjects must fight, or we will kill your relatives. The
dead will get a coalition burial." |
| ..., note, ...., broadcast,
..., telegram, ...., wire, ...., cablegram, ..., cable, ..., radio message,
..., telephone call, .... |
| Phrase : "Strike them, fight them everywhere the way you are fighting them today."
1a |
| Translation : "Continue
to shop as long as the coalition uses smart bombs." |
| .., information, ..., intelligence,
..., tidings, ..., word, .., news flash, ..., scoop, ..., bulletin,
..., communiqué ‚ ... |
| Quote : "The aggression that the aggressors are carrying out against the stronghold of faith is an aggression on the religion, the wealth, the honour and the soul and an aggression on the land of Islam."
1a |
| Translation :
"The investigations that the allies are carrying out of or personal
fortunes is an aggression on Swiss banking, capitalism, the greed and the avarice
and an aggression on the land of Presidential Palaces." |
| ..., announcement,
..., report, .., release, ..., dispatch, ..., article, .., artical,
.., piece, .., account, .... |
| Quote : “It is your chance for immortality. Seize the opportunity my brothers.”
1a |
| Translation :
"Do this and you're a dead camel. Meanwhile I'll pack for my
plane outa here." |
| ..., U.S., ..., George H. W.
Bush, .., Florida election, ..., Vice President Dick Chenney, ... , Vice
President Al Gore, ... |
| Quote :
"Saddam Hussein is alive. ... The Iraqi President and the country's leadership are
well and functioning...." 9a
( British radio, BBC, April 4, 2003 ) |
| Translation :
"Saddam Hussein is alive. ... The Iraqi President and the country's leadership are
well and functioning .... on life support." |
| ... , Al Jazzera, .... |
| Quote :
"Iraq will use unconventional tactics to fight the coalition's advance on Baghdad."
1a ( April 4, 2003 ) |
| Translation :
"We take off our uniforms and run." |
| ..., soldiers, ..., troops,
..., M1 tank, .., Apache helicopter, ..., Marines, .., US Navy, .., US Air
Force, .., US Army, ... |
Quote :
Reporter : "Mr. Sabri, have you seen Saddam Hussein personally?"
Mr. Sabri : "It's none of your business."
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Translation :
Reporter : "Mr. Sabri, is Saddam dead"
Mr. Sabri : "Yes"
|
| ... , Saddam's speach, |
| Quote :
"... we have organized our defenses. This includes defending Baghdad from appropriate depths.
" 1a ( read Saddam speech
on Apr. 4, 2003 ) |
| Translation :
" .... I called what few friends I have. They are around my
bunker. " |
| ... , M1A1, ..., urban
warfare, .. , urban warfair, .. , |
| Quote :
"
...You know how your army and Republican Guard act when they have an appropriate opportunity to fight their enemy....
" |
| Translation :
"... They run like a French soldiers ...." |
| ..., news, ..., information,
.., intelligence, .. , tidings, .., word, ..., scoop, ..., bulletin, ..., communiqués‚
... |
| Fatwa Quote : "
I
urge Iraqis to 'remain calm and not to interfere with coalition troops. Muslims
are not to impede the coalition's advance into Iraq." 4a |
| Translation :
" Get the popcorn and a Coke. Then sit back and watch the
coalition troops kick the camel dung out of the jerks who have oppressed us
for years." |
| ..., report, .., account,
.., chronicle, .., history, .., narrative, .., version, .., description,
.., write-up, ..., summary, ... |
| Quote : "Allah is on our side. That is why we will beat the aggressor."
2a (Saddam Hussein, December 12, 1990 ) |
| Translation : "Dear
God, I'm screwed." |
| .., record, .., article,
..., news story, ..., press release, .... , Republican Guard, ...., SSO,
...., S.S.O., ....,Eelite Republican Guard, ... |
| Quote : "We are not intimidated by the size of the armies, or the type of hardware the US has brought."
2a ( Saddam Hussein, November 12, 1990) |
| Translation :
"Size doesn't matter." < Saddam checks zipper > |
| .., Abdul Karim Qasim, Prime Minister of Iraq,
...., Ouja, near Tikrit in northern Iraq., ..... |
| Quote : "You will not be able to define the battlefield, arms and time. If
you can begin aggression and war, then you will not be able to define the arena of the duel, the type of the weapons that will be
used, nor the duration of the battle." 2a (Saddam Hussein's Promise to President Bush, 16 January 1991) |
| Translation : "Nah,
Nah, Nah, Na, Na, Nah!!! You can't see me.!" |
| ..., Under- Secretary of State,
..., Ministry for Foreign Affairs, .., international development
co-operation, ..., Minister for Foreign Affairs, ..., Sweden's delegation to the United Nations General Assembly,
..., Swedish delegation to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva, ...,
Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, .., Honorary Doctorate from Moscow State University (1987),
... Henry de Wolf Smyth Award, ... , Australian Richard Butler, .., Liberal Campaign Committee,
.., Swedish nuclear energy program, .., the referendum in 1980. |
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USA
UK
U.S.A.
U.K. |
Baghdad
Bob
Has
Guests
14, 16
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| ...., George Bush, ...,
White House, .., President George W. Bush, .., United States Of America,
...., USA, .., Dubya, ..., Minister Of MissInformation, .... |
| ..., Iraq Minister of
Misinformation, ..., Baghdad Bob, ... , Iraq Minister of Mis-Information,
.... , Baghdad Elmo, ... , Iraq Minister of Miss-Information, .... |
| Quotes By Non-Iraqis
Speaking Governmental Iraqi : |
| ..., summary, .., record,
.., article, .., news story, .., press release, ..., credibility gap, ...,
Baghdad Bob, .. , Bagdad Bob, ... |
| Quote on war moving
to Iran: "If the great Satan were to lift up the hem of Iran's burqa in order to inseminate her with it's devil seed of hegemony and war, Allah himself would hurl thunderbolts down to fry America's manhood to a crisp."
3a |
| Translation 1 :
"Confucius say woman is like fortune cookie; watch what you ask
for." |
| Translation 2 :
"If a US armored division's tanks cross our border, we expect big fire to
come from their long phallic barrels." |
| .., announcement, .., report,
..., release, ..., dispatch, .., article, ..., piece, ..., account, .... |
| IJP Director Quote : "
.... unlikely the < International Criminal > Court would take up cases arising from a possible war in Iraq,
.... The <UN> Security Council, however, could refer a genocidal situation to the Court for investigation for prosecution.
..." 5a |
| Translation : "Saddam,
keep up the good work dude! We in Europe have your back! |
| .., fiction, .., fable, ...,
fairy story, ..., fairy tale, ..., folk tale, ..., fabrication, .., novel,
.., romance, ..., tale, .. |
| Clinton Quote '98 : "Think how many can be killed by just a tiny bit of anthrax, and think about how it's not just that Saddam Hussein might put it on a Scud missile, an anthrax head, and send it on to some city he wants to destroy. Think about all the other terrorists and other bad actors who could just parade through Baghdad and pick up their stores...This is a serious thing with me, this is a very serious thing. You imagine the capacity of these tiny amounts of biological agents to cause great harm; it's something we need to get after."
6a ( said in an interview on the " Jim Lehrer News Hour," Jan 21,
1998 ) |
| Translation : "Imagine
in five years I'll be defending this jerk!" |
| ..., adulterous, ...,
adultery,..., affair, ..., Monica Lewinsky, ..., Hilary Clinton,
...., blow job, ...., sex, ..., ice queen, ... |
| Quote : "We have exhausted all of our diplomatic effort to get the Iraqis to comply with their own agreements and with international law. Given that . . . we have got to force them to comply, and we are doing so militarily."
7a (Tom Daschle, in 1998, when President Clinton, struck Iraq
) |
| Translation :
"Bombs dropped by Democrat , good ... " |
| .., frontline: the survival
of saddam, ......, report, ...., account, ..., chronicle, ..., history,
..., narrative, ..., version, ..., description, ... , write-up, ... |
| Quote : "This
President failed so miserably in diplomacy that we are now forced to war."
7a (Tom Daschle on President
Bush as Operation Iraqi Freedom starts) |
| Translation : "Bombs
dropped by Republican, bad! " |
| ..., Biography of Saddam
Hussein of Tikrit, ... , Biography, .., Saddam Hussein, .., Tikrit,
.... |
| Quote : "Saddam Hussein didn't kill 3,100 people on Sept. 11. Osama bin Laden did, and as far as we know he's still alive."
6 ( Bill Clinton, Former U.S. President ) |
| Translation : "Why
don't my friends call anymore?" |
| ..., Inspector Hans Clouseau,
.., .. Uppsala, .., Mälar valley in central Sweden, ...., University of
Uppsala, ... ,Columbia University, ..., Cambridge, ... |
| Quote :
".... We will have regional conflicts and use of force, but world conflicts I do not believe will happen any longer. But the environment, that is a creeping danger. I'm more worried about global warming than I am of any major military
conflict. ...." 10a |
| Translation 1 : "...
I am a dinosaur ..." |
| Translation 2 : "...
I am Chief Inspector Hans Clouseau..." Chief Insp. Jacques Clouseau,
... Pink Panther, .... |
| Stockholm University, ..., Sweden's foreign ministry,
.., Head of Department at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, ..., Legal Adviser on International
Law, .. |
|
Quote :
".... What we need now is not just a regime change in Saddam Hussein and Iraq, but we need a regime change in the United
States, ...." 11a |
| Translation : "....
What is the fastest way to alienate Americans and kill your own
Presidential campaign? ...." |
| ... , Nicholas DeGenerate,
Phd, ..., The Latino Studies Program Columbia University, ..... , America Bashing Fesitival
, .... |
| Quote :
"U.S. patriotism is inseparable from imperial warfare and white
supremacy ....... The only true heroes are those who find ways that help defeat the U.S. military. I personally would like to see a million
Mogadishus....." < reference was to a 1993 ambush in Somalia in which 18 U.S. soldiers were killed and 84
wounded> ( NG at Columbia anti-war "teach-in" in March
2003) 12a |
| Translation : "....
I hate my country and those that defend my right to make an ass of
myself. ..." |
| ...., Marines, ..., US Army,
... , 4th ID, .... , LAR, ...... , Baghdad airport, ... , infidel, ..... ,
Arab, .... , Islam , ..., Mohamed, ... , US Navy, .... |
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Iraq,
USA,
news,
TV |
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Baghdad
Bob, Minister Of Misinformation (
click cartoon to enlarge ) 15, 16 |
| ..., UN trade sanctions remain in effect due to incomplete Iraqi compliance with relevant UNSC resolutions,
... |
