Looting Quotes

On playing Othello - "I didn`t realise how much I hated that play until I agreed to do it. I don`t mind Shakespeare so much, but I really hate Othello. Here was a guy who had been all over the world, kicking ass, looting, plundering and probably raping the baddest babes on the planet. Then he falls in love with some teenager and loses his fucking mind. I don`t like that idea at all. I mean, how stupid was he?"

It`s my understanding, ... that there has been rampant looting. In fact, martial law declared in other areas. Have you seen looting?

If we don`t get gasoline to keep our water system running, then we`re going to ask people to leave town, ... Our critical need is gas. We`ve had three incidents of looting because we can`t patrol like we need to because there`s no gasoline for our police cars.

I`ve seen looting around the world and thought I knew the best looters in the world. The Iraqis excel at that.

Since the Pentagon underestimated the number of troops required after the end of hostilities, we were not prepared to prevent looting or to guard hundreds of weapons dumps spread throughout the country.

They went into stores to get food to stay alive. Looting isn`t the right word. I call it survival.

You are going into the unknown. You never know who is under the bed and who is around the corner, ... And due to the fact that we are having looting in the area ... and the looters have been using weapons against the police down here, we need to do this.

At times it is hard to ignore the comparisons between Baghdad (where I was less than a month ago and have spent more of the last two years) and New Orleans: The anarchy, the looting, some of it purely for survival, some of it purely opportunistic. We watched a flatbed truck drive by, a man on the back with an M-16 looking up on the roofs for snipers, as is common in Iraq. Private security contractors were stationed outside the Royal St. Charles Hotel; when asked if things were getting pretty wild around the area, one of them replied, '˜Nope. It`s pretty Green Zone here.`

We have had some looting but we are not taking reports unless essential,