First they got "freedom", now they're getting an amusement park!

[JeffR]

Sorry if this has been discussed before. I just discovered this story:

'Disneyland' comes to Baghdad with multi-million pound entertainment park
Sonia Verma in Dubai

Llewellyn Werner admits he is facing obstacles most amusement park developers never have to deal with – insurgent attacks and looting.

When you are building an amusement park in downtown Baghdad, those risks come with the territory.

Mr Werner, chairman of C3, a Los Angeles-based holding company for private equity firms, is pouring millions of dollars into developing the Baghdad Zoo and Entertainment Experience, a massive American-style amusement park that will feature a skateboard park, rides, a concert theatre and a museum. It is being designed by the firm that developed Disneyland. “The people need this kind of positive influence. It’s going to have a huge psychological impact,” Mr Werner said.

The 50-acre (20 hectare) swath of land sits adjacent to the Green Zone and encompasses Baghdad’s existing zoo, which was looted, left without power and abandoned after the American-led invasion in 2003. Only 35 of 700 animals survived – some starved, some were stolen and some were killed by Iraqis fearing food shortages...

More here:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/iraq/article3802051.ece

At least this project doesn't seem to involve the American taxpayer, but :wtf:

[Yael]

1. No profit to be had in rebuilding infrastructure or clean water, I guess.

[orangerevolution]

3. I hear everyone saying clean water

Assume for a minute there was clean water, would you drink it?

Do you drink supposedly clean water in Mexico? Only if you want to spend the next week sitting on the throne.

When I am out of the US, and even in some parts of the US, I only drink bottled water.

How come we are not up in arms?

[stellanoir]

2. but. . . but. . . but. . .a theme park will solve everything !!!

then ". . . life will be Disneyland. . ."

[flamin lib]

4. Skinner was YEARS ahead of this!!!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=103&topic_id=198196&mesg_id=198196

Check it out for yourself!