War quotes

"Lance Corporal of Horse Steven Gerrard, speaking from his bed on the RFA Argus in the Gulf, said: 'I can command my vehicle. I can keep it from being attacked. What I have not been trained to do is look over my shoulder to see whether an American is shooting at me.'"
The Guardian

"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."
Sky News

"President Bush announced tonight that he believes in democracy and that democracy can exist in Iraq. They can have a strong economy, they can have a good health care plan, and they can have free and fair voting. Iraq? We can't even get this in Florida."
Jay Leno

Roman armour

My God, even the History Channel is showing anachronistic Roman armour - legionaries in the war between Caesar and Pompey wearing the kind of strip plate armour that didn't come in till the late first century AD. Grrr.