IRAQ

The Booze Is Back in Baghdad

Slowly, in certain urban pockets, a more liberal, secular culture is returning to Iraq's streets.

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  • Posted By: semsem77 @ 10/22/2008 3:09:43 PM

    all people must know that our religion ISLAM conserve the woman and order men to respect her so he ordered her to wear head cover not to be seen as a desired woman for sex.
    as ISLAM respect the mind and human brain thats why wine is forbidden.
    any one can tell me how many accidents took place cause the person was drunk???????!!!!!!!
    how many harassment took place cause the lady was wearing tight or short clothes that let her hips so sexy and obveious to men leading men to annoy them in streets
    just think about it!!!!!!!!
    that what AMERICA fight in IRAQ and what needs to fight in all ISLAMIC countries!!!!!!!

  • Posted By: richardwbailey @ 10/21/2008 3:52:09 PM

    Exit The United States of America
    Enter: Babylon!

  • Posted By: richardwbailey @ 10/21/2008 3:49:17 PM

    Exit America Enter Babylon

  • Posted By: Nins @ 10/21/2008 12:56:03 AM

    After 9/11, the US government started rounding up Muslims without cause and without due process of law, and put them in prison camps like we did to the Japanese Americans in WWII. The Bush administration called it's main internment camp Guantanamo Bay. While there are certainly many guilty terrorists held in Guantanamo, there are also many innocent American citizens who have been held illegally for years without even being charged with any crime. They have been tortured by our government. Some of them have died.

    Recently the Supreme Court ruled against the Bush administration in the matter of Guantanamo Bay. The Supreme Court Justices were NOT on the side of the terrorists. They were on the side of the Geneva Convention, that says you can not torture POWs, and on the side of US laws that state you can not imprison a person without charging them with a crime and bringing them to trial. I'm sure that like most Americans, the Justices who voted against the illegal, immoral doings at Guantanamo didn't feel sympathy for the terrorists. They felt sympathy for the laws of AMERICA, the land of the FREE, where even rat finks get a fair trial.

    Meanwhile, back in Iraq, the Bush administration is busy trying to build a smokescreen to hide the CRIMES they have committed. Those pesky weapons of mass destruction. Just think, the National Debt went up over 6 trillion dollars under Bush. More than 2 trillion of it went directly into the pockets of Halliburton, a corporation owned by the Cheney family. Halliburton is now a DUBAI corporation and therefore is not subject to US taxes. All that money they took out of the US Treasury is going into the coffers of a MUSLIM country.

    Did you hear about how the US government is being charged millions for Halliburton deliveries of sand into Iraq from Kuwait? Sand. Like there is a shortage of sand in Iraq? Another contractor shipped sand from Idaho to Iraq at our expense. Nobel prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz discusses these and other excesses of our current government's out of control spending in Iraq.

    Your grandchildren will be working like slaves to pay off this debt, so that the Bushes and Cheneys can live the high life in Dubai.

    Yeah, they're patriots, Bush&Co. They wear flag pins. And hide the money they stole from America in Dubai.

    And they want me to believe that Obama is a socialist. Right.

    In case you think McCain is any different than Bush, watch this:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdJUCU1UH2w

  • Posted By: Keene1920 @ 08/24/2008 10:25:21 PM

    Ignorance and all it manifestations and consequence will all ways be with us or will it ? If the earth is not destroyed and the progressive intelligent people are allowed to thrive for say three thousand years will we still have people destroying each other

  • Posted By: Walk_A_Mile_In_Their_Shoes @ 07/21/2008 1:46:43 AM

    Jeeze, they could use a little good time.

  • Posted By: mhelmy21 @ 06/24/2008 12:31:56 AM

    Booze has always been there. The saddam dictatorship paid extra to make the iraqi brand beer priced low for the people. Also by the way, the trend for iraqi men was to grow mustaches, not beards. Women also wore western clothing for over the last 20 years. Only the rural women wore traditional clothing. Please do a better job on your research.

    • Posted By: timothius @ 07/14/2008 11:10:18 AM

      The strict restrictions referred to didn't happen under Saddam, they happened under the extremist militias that controlled cities and neighborhoods around Iraq. That is why the article references these men "RE-opening" their liquor stores.

  • Posted By: ALWAYSRIGHT @ 07/12/2008 10:26:05 AM

    XXXXX

    • Posted By: ALWAYSRIGHT @ 07/12/2008 10:35:56 AM

      Read properly ... it was a muslim that opened a booze store ... selling to muslims ... licensed by a muslim government!

  • Posted By: ALWAYSRIGHT @ 07/12/2008 10:31:07 AM

    Dummies listen up! ... it was a muslim opened a booze store selling to muslims and licensed by a muslim government! try reading correctly please!

  • Posted By: eddiewhere @ 06/26/2008 12:39:14 AM

    innspectormichael @ 06/24/2008 1:03:31 AM
    Comment: I am pro Allah

    HOW COULD YOU BE PRO ALLAH. HAVE YOU EVER MET ALLAH. OR DO YOU JUST IMAGINE HE IS THERE.? WE HAVE A MILLIONS OF NUTS AROUND THE WORLD THAT DIE FOR A RELIGION THAT IS NOT REAL. THIS IS CRAZY. THIS ALLAH BULL HAS TO STOP IT CAUSING CHAOS.
    THESE MUSLIMS AND ARABS NEED TO KNOW THAT ALLAH WAS ACTUALLY AMERICAN and HIS MESSAGE WAS DO NOT COMMIT SUICIDE.



  • Posted By: midnight05 @ 06/24/2008 1:03:30 PM

    Fundamentalism is not good for anyone. The notion of "cover" varies from Kabul to the streets of Singapore and women's modesty varies depending on how much the people in charge are drawn from mountain tribes where women are less valuable than cows. It is good to see life back in Baghdad and anyone who wishes to be a "good Muslim" needn't drink or hold hands with his girlfriend.

  • Posted By: existentialist @ 06/23/2008 8:12:22 PM

    This is some of the best news since the hanging of SH. When men can decide to drink a little whiskey, freedom is present. Don't need some religious zealot telling me what I can or can't do. THe natural laws do that for me just fine. Things might rationalize in this place after all.

    • Posted By: CHATO4444 @ 06/23/2008 8:51:40 PM

      Great comment. I live in Utah where the majority of the population is mormon. Most of the mormons that I know do not have the freedom to down a cold one on a hot afternoon while around other mormons but do so in private. Same reason you do not take only one mormon fishing with you..he'll drink all your beer.

      • Posted By: ben nevis @ 06/24/2008 12:47:38 PM

        Chatto444, papabran is right you are a MORON!

      • Posted By: CHATO4444 @ 06/23/2008 8:54:20 PM

        Existen...God is still good though man. I do not think he minds you having a few cold ones. I even think Jesus was a man who like to have a few but they all knew their purpose and did it well.

  • Posted By: papabran @ 06/23/2008 11:27:38 PM

    This story says that freedom is returning to Iraq. I hope all you anti war liberals read it.

    • Posted By: AmeriKhan Lobo @ 06/24/2008 1:58:19 AM

      so this story is the "Gospel" in your mind on freedom returning to Iraq?
      It said this is only in pocket areas of Bagdad near the green zone.

  • Posted By: innspectormichael @ 06/24/2008 1:03:31 AM

    I am pro Allah, and Pro Obama! We shall overcome! Allah loves everyone!!!
    Obama '08!

  • Posted By: eddiewhere @ 06/24/2008 12:35:41 AM

    NO AMERICAN LIFE IS WORTH IRAQI FREEDOM.
    "ANYONE WHO DISAGREES IS NOT A REAL AMERICAN eddiewhere 2008

    We need to get out of Iraq and transfer responsibility and management of that country to the IRAQ's themselves. THEY SHOULD be backed by a multinational force led by Middle Eastern countries until they are able to fight extremist on their own.
    Our unilateral approach in the MIDDLE EAST has to come to an end. ECONOMICALLY, IRAQ IS KILLING the average tax payer and making a few private contractors and oil firms rich.

    We need Oil. WE NEED OIL. Therefore, getting rid of the Iranian regime is at the top of our agenda.
    The majority in Iran want change but not under and American led invasion. It has to be done from within. We lost the support of moderate Arabs and Muslims over the last six years. Hopefully, PRESIDENT OBAMA can empower this group and encourage them to meet with their counterparts.

    Inotherwords there should be an alliance between all moderates in the Middle East, JEWS, ARABs, MUSLIMS, ect... These forces must be self motivated by a common cause, Peace. IF this group can be strengthened they themselves will defeat or at least contain the force of extremism.
    WE must strengthen the forces behind peace and weaken those against peace on both sides.

    THE UNITED STATES CANNOT SOLVE THE CONFLICT IN THE MIDDLE EAST. WE CAN ONLY STRENGHTEN AND SUPPORT THE PEOPLE OF THE MIDDLE EAST TO SOLVE THEIR OWN PROBLEMS.

    IN THE SHORT RUN WE NEED MIDDLE EASTERN OIL. THIS COMPLICATES OUR ROLE OVER THERE.
    WE Should have had an ENERGY SUMMIT TEN YEARS AGO. WE NEED TO COME UP WITH A TWENTY YEAR PLAN to RID OURSELVES of OIL DEPENDENCY IN THE MIDDLE EAST. TWENTY YEARS WILL GO BY LIKE NOTHING. WE HAVE TO START NOW.

    THE most dangerous threats are the ones you do not see coming. LIKE CHINA, RUSSIA, EASTERN EUROPEAN organized crime. Monitoring these entities will be our great challenge.
    ARE WE READY FOR CYBER WAR. I DON't THINK SO.

  • Posted By: jpaffel@hotmail.com @ 06/23/2008 11:45:54 PM

    This is great news! Booze and gambling coming back to Iraq. How cool is that? We've spent 10s of billiions to foster this wonderful freedom. What a mess.

  • Posted By: jpaffel@hotmail.com @ 06/23/2008 11:43:20 PM

    This is great! Booze and casinos coming to Baghdad. Just lovely.

  • Posted By: papabran @ 06/23/2008 11:31:38 PM

    chatto444 you are a real genuine moron.

  • Posted By: papabran @ 06/23/2008 11:28:37 PM

    Freedom is returning to Iraq. I hope all you bleeding heart liberals that were against this war read the story.

  • Posted By: jroberts0078@msn.com @ 06/23/2008 10:01:25 PM

    I think this story is great. My husband spend many nights living among the iraqi people when he was deployed last year. He has many great stories of how friendly and giving most of the people were. He got to be there for several schools opening for both boys and girls. As well as hospitals and stores. He got to play soccer with the kids and share tea and food. Of course there are the bad apples... as there are in every culture and extremists in every religion..... they are by no means the majority.... not even over there.
    Even though he came home severely injured by a roadside bomb he still holds the general Iraqi population in high regard and wholeheartedly believes that we are doing good over there.... irregardless of the who/what /why and how we got there....( those are questions for a whole different can of worms)

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