Registered: Sep 2000
Location: Playa d'en London
Posts: 9826

A quote from Sky News:

"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. he added: "There's no beer, no prostitutes and people are shooting at us. It's more like Portsmouth."

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Registered: Sep 2000
Location: Kansas City
Posts: 7504

Sounds like Provo to me...

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Registered: Jul 2000
Location: zanzibar
Posts: 10477

From the blog of some guy who I think is claiming to be on the ground in Kuwait:

quote:

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Switched to BBC. The anchor announced that the port city of Umm Qasr had been secured, and would be receiving humanitarian supplies within days.

"Sir, is it true," they asked me, "is Umm Qasr secured?"

"That's what he said."

"Can we go there?" This puzzled me.

"Why would you want to go there?"

"Dancing girls! Beer!"

Then it hit me, Umm Qasr is a border town. For these men, it holds memories of a different time, a time before war, when they could travel freely to Iraq, and do all the things not allowed in their own country.

Umm Qasr is their Tijuana.

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Registered: Jan 2002
Location: US
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"You hear about this? Connie Chung got fired. CNN fired her. It was cruel how she found out. She was watching Fox News."

"In Baghdad, they don’t even need TV. They just look out the window. It’s like CNN 3-D."

"Well, let’s see what’s happening with Michael Moore. Or, as he’s also known – the 4th Dixie Chick."

"Today Michael Moore made another impassioned anti-war speech – he went on and on. Then finally the woman at the McDonald’s drive-thru took the mic back and said, 'You want your Big Mac combo or not? Make up your mind!'"

"Today President Bush was seen on TV throwing a Frisbee with his dog on the White House lawn. On Iraqi TV they said that the Frisbee missed the dog and hit an innocent civilian."

thanks to my very pro-war friend. Frank I luv ya!

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Registered: Jan 2001
Location: Van Diemen's Land.
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"Today President Bush was seen on TV throwing a Frisbee with his dog on the White House lawn. On Iraqi TV they said that the Frisbee missed the dog and hit an innocent civilian."


heheha

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