Quote from Sky News

[montezuma]

"Umm Qasr is a city similar to Southampton," UK defence minister Geoff Hoon said in The Commons yesterday. "He's either never been to Southampton, or he's never been to Umm Qasr" says a British Squaddie patrolling Umm Qasr. Another soldier added: "There's no beer, no prostitutes and people are shooting at us. It's more like Portsmouth."

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[oldharry]

And the News reader who introduced yet another 'war report':

"Now we are going over to our war correspondent in the Iraq desert. Bear in mind that for operational reasons our correspondent can give us no details of where he is and what the unit he is with is actually doing... Now Bill, can you tell you me where you are and what is going on....?"



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