THE BORE
General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: Howard Alan Treesong on May 06, 2008, 04:29:51 PM
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/may/06/iraq
(http://image.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2008/05/05/greenzone10d.jpg)
(http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g314/InvisibleParadigm/greenzonevillage.jpg)
Picture, if you will, a tree-lined plaza in Baghdad's International Village, flanked by fashion boutiques, swanky cafes, and shiny glass office towers. Nearby a golf course nestles agreeably, where a chip over the water to the final green is but a prelude to cocktails in the club house and a soothing massage in a luxury hotel, which would not look out of place in Sydney harbour. Then, as twilight falls, a pre-prandial stroll, perhaps, amid the cool of the Tigris Riverfront Park, where the peace is broken only by the soulful cries of egrets fishing.
Improbable though it all may seem, this is how some imaginative types in the US military are envisaging the future of Baghdad's Green Zone, the much-pummelled redoubt of the Iraqi capital where a bunker shot has until now had very different connotations.
Last week, a Los Angeles-based holding company for equity firms, C3, confirmed it was starting a $500 million project to build an amusement park on the outskirts of the Green Zone in an area encompassing the Baghdad Zoo. The first phase, a skateboard park, is scheduled to open this summer.
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For many Baghdad residents, the Green Zone has been a no-go area for years, first under Saddam and now under the occupation. "What do I care?" shrugged one, Ahmed Hussein. "I don't have electricity, I don't have fresh water and I don't have a job."
(http://pcmedia.gamespy.com/pc/image/article/813/813168/alt-tab-3--20070815045716225.jpg)
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...i had to check the link twice to make sure it wasn't the onion.
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:o We need to burn washington to the ground. :maf
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Baghdad used to be a big tourism hotspot. The Pentagon is just bringing sexy back.
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The Pentagon is just bringing sexy back.
Too bad it's too late to bring Saddam back.
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:lol
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It's confirmed, this makes me fucking hate the shit out of America.
With all the problems in Iraq right now, they want to put a fucking GOLF COURSE and SHOPPING CENTER in Baghdad? The capitalism in this country makes me want to vomit sometimes.
I can't believe this. this is insulting.
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That sketch lacks car-bomb barricades.
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you would think, for $5 billion, they'd spell Tiger's name right
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For many Baghdad residents, the Green Zone has been a no-go area for years, first under Saddam and now under the occupation. "What do I care?" shrugged one, Ahmed Hussein. "I don't have electricity, I don't have fresh water and I don't have a job."
if he wanted a job he could find one. smh
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I think it's his attitude that's preventing him from working. I mean, a real go-getter would see this as an opportunity to become a caddy or something.
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i'm kinda worried that stray golf balls could potentially disturb the neighbors. :-\
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gah. wtf. I don't want to go to work anymore.
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if the $5 billion project is to provide jobs for the locals and act as an economic stimulous package, then all well and good
but lets face it, it's not going to be is it?
Even in that scenario...they'd still be left with a useless golf course & shopping mall when they could have had hospitals (surely a growth market right now!) and libraries (to practice their newfound freedom of speech in).
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Tony Hawk's Iraqi Warzone
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:rofl
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I wanna play Mecchassault... :(
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I wanna play Mecchassault... :(
if you want, i know some people you could talk to about larping it