At last, our invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq is showing real results

[KamaAina]

the fundies who followed in our wake have now taken Baghdad bone dry, forcing nightlife up to the Kurdish north.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/ml_iraq_kurdish_club_scene

"Baghdad has become a dead city where there is no more amusement, no drinks and no music. They have dressed the capital in religious clothes," said Hameed Saleh, a Baghdad Academy of Music graduate who plays the drums and oud, the Arabic forerunner to the lute, at Kurdonia Club. "Now I play music in Sulaimaniyah and my life is secure."

Baghdad in the 1970s and 1980s was renowned for being the capital of Middle East nightlife with the most raucous nightclubs and an endless flow of whiskey. U.N. sanctions and Saddam Hussein's newfound piety dimmed its star a bit in the 1990s, but it was the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, the violence that ensued and the rise of conservative Islamic militias that all but snuffed it out.

Nightlife in Baghdad tried to rise from the dead after violence declined in 2008, but the final blow came when religious conservatives began enforcing a Saddam-era ban on alcohol in clubs and added a ban in stores.

Don'tcha love the sound of freedom on the march?? :sarcasm:

[Submariner]

1. Iraq will be the SHAME of Bush and the republicans for centuries

to come.

After losing 2 wars, it's no wonder the repukes are pissed.

[leveymg]

2. One Taliban, a thousand Taliban. We made the world safe for them all.