Holiday in Basra anyone?

[Meekon]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/f ... 840401.stm

[Cobalt]

I was thinking about it earlier in the year but decided against it. If I was to go anywhere in Iraq it would be up north with the Kurds.

[Guest]

1958 Basrah and Shaibah were grot holes, I'll bet that in 2004 it ain't changed much for the better, except maybe the road out!

[minimac]

Whats the nightlife like? . I hear that the 'fireworks' are fantastic

MM

[Guest]

Not like Downtown Baggers for fireworks, Shock and Awe stuff there, it occasionally lights up the night sky

[chrisfow]

I think I'll go out there with a few hundred pounds and build a palace! Land must be well cheap and labour is prob even cheaper. Just a small prob with the liklihood of death but other than that, dream place

[Cliodna]

To quote a remark that Mr. H Hopkins, special envoy to Roosevelt, made to a British General;

The Persian Gulf is the arsehole of the world, and Basra is eighty miles up it.

I don't remember "him-who-keeps-me-in-cash-so-I-can-be one-of-them-ladies-what-lunch " saying that.
Although, perhaps his dad did