Friday, April 25, 2008

It's way past April first

So this can't be a joke.... can it?:
At the cost of nearly $500 million, a Los Angeles-based company is “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.” The park “is being designed by the firm that developed Disneyland.” The company’s owner says “the time is ripe” for profit and entertainment to collide in Iraq...
Ripe? Profit and entertainment? Are you kidding me? Just who on earth is supportive of this ridiculous effort?
But Mr Werner, whose company manages several hundred million dollars of equity, sees Iraq as a great opportunity. “Iraq to me is an open field. I have never in my life seen an opportunity with the potential that Iraq has with its skilled workforce and oil reserves.” He has begun partnerships with several Iraqi factories in the last year, investing tens of millions of dollars in joint ventures. But the Baghdad Zoo and Entertainment Experience could prove the most ambitious. General David Petraeus, head of US forces, is said to be a “big supporter” of the project, according to Mr Brinkley.
Really? This makes me feel so much better about Petraeus having a firm grip on the reality on the ground.

6 comments:

Sorghum Crow said...

$500 effing million? Why don't they just convert the new embassy? The olympic-size pool could be converted to a penguinarium. While they're at maybe Abu Ghraib could be made into a Motel 6.

ellroon said...

They can have the IED minicar ride! The Bombs Away rollercoaster! The Depleted Uranium Mutants show!

They'll be so thrilled they'll forget all about us stealing their oil!

Distributorcap said...

can you imagine tomorrowland in THAT amusement park...

i hope the animal rights activists of the world are also up in arms -- putting rare species in the middle of a war

this is friggin nuts -- andn you KNOW somehow our govt is funding this

ellroon said...

Opening day, you know any crowd that gathers to go in will be greeted by explosions. Would you send your kid to go play?

Steve Bates said...

It's 1/20/2009, and the Bush administration has just left office, with Iraq in complete chaos. George W. Bush: what will you do now?

"We're goin' ta Baghdad DisneyWorld!"

ellroon said...

Oh, yes, Georgie! It'll be fun and you can go on rides and stuff! Here, take this parachute and this water bottle!

Bye!