Umm Qasr's ambiguous image was cemented early in the conflict when Britain's defense secretary, Geoff Hoon, likened the city to the relatively upscale British port town of Southampton. To which an unidentified British soldier replied, "There's no beer, no prostitutes and people are shooting at us. It's more like Portsmouth." (NYT)
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