Website review: Think Progress
mjsirius discovered this in Politics
•5 reviews since Apr 24, 2008
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•thinkprogress.org/2008/04/24/baghdad-to-get-d...
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mjsirius discovered 2 months ago- are you kidding me?
- Baylynx rated 2 months ago
- I can not believe the overt exploitation that this idea implies...what an insult to a people living in the land of Mesopotamia...
- dubmecrazy rated 2 months ago
- Profit...the real motive behind the invasion. But...who wouldn't want to ride roller coasters in the middle of a war, right? Spending money on infrastructure is apparently not a profitable endeavor.
- dodgecharger rated 2 months ago
- I can just imagine the insurgents targeting roller coaster tracks right by the camera section. This is going to be a hellish version of Disneyland, which is already pretty hellish.
- liquidiridium rated 2 months ago
- From the page: "Baghdad to get Disneyland" style amusement park. 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: Mr Werner, who has been sold a 50-year lease on the site by the Mayor of Baghdad for an undisclosed sum, says that the time is ripe for the amusement park. "I think people will embrace it. They'll see it as an opportunity for their children regardless if they're Shia or Sunni. They'll say their kids deserve a place to play and they'll leave it alone." "I wouldn't be doing this if I wasn't making money" he said. "I also have this wonderful sense that we're doing the right thing. We're going to employ thousands of Iraqis. But mostly everything here is for profit."¯ A Pentagon official has said that Gen. David Petraeus is a "big supporter¯ of the project." Is this a joke? It has to be. If not, the ludicrous idea of building a Disney-like theme park in war-torn Iraq is just mind boggling. Unbelievable. COME ON.
