Welcome to Baghdad, the new Orlando as the Pentagon, having won the war in Iraq five years ago (to everyone's considerably surprise), is now focusing its efforts on a $5 billion "International Village" to be built in the Green Zone in Baghdad including luxury hotels, upscale shopping and a fucking golf course.
Just what a country without proper electricity or sewerage provisions, struggling to employ and feed its population and struggling with an internecine civil war wants for Xmas! Of course, it's not as if it will be open to ordinary Iraqis. It's target audience is clearly highly paid expats and corrupt public officials. It will be just like the Saddam era won't it?
Just what a country without proper electricity or sewerage provisions, struggling to employ and feed its population and struggling with an internecine civil war wants for Xmas! Of course, it's not as if it will be open to ordinary Iraqis. It's target audience is clearly highly paid expats and corrupt public officials. It will be just like the Saddam era won't it?
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