Congressman's lesbian platoon

"Well, it seems that the military has gone around and fired a whole bunch of people who speak foreign languages — Farsi and Arabic, etc. For some reason, the military seems more afraid of gay people than they are against terrorists, but they're very brave with the terrorists. ... If the terrorists ever got a hold of this information, they'd get a platoon of lesbians to chase us out of Baghdad."

-- Congressman Gary Ackerman (D-NY) to Secretary of State Condaleeza Rice, during hearings on the State Department's 2008 budget request.