Here is MORE MSM GARBAGE as PROOF!!!!
Also see: The Narrative Versus the News
"In Iraq's rubble, a dream of tourist joy" by Erica Goode and Riyadh Mohammed, New York Times News Service | September 21, 2008
Oh, the New York Times, huh? That EXPLAINS EVERYTHING!!!!!
BAGHDAD - Humoud Yakobi gazes at the rubble-strewn parking lot, the maze of blast walls, and the clusters of dusty palm trees on the island around him and sees hotels, restaurants, and shopping malls, with crowds enjoying refreshments by the swimming pool or playing a round of golf.
"I always imagine it as some kind of heaven," he said.
Yakobi, the chairman of Iraq's Board of Tourism, is charged with attracting foreign visitors to his beleaguered country. Jazirat A'aras, an island in the Tigris that is just across from the fortified Green Zone and the new American Embassy, is central to his plans. He is seeking investors who might want to spend $2.5 billion to $4.5 billion to build on the island, which was a honeymoon resort before it was bombed and looted in 2003 and then taken over by the Americans for use as a construction yard for the new embassy.
Yup, that's liberation, all right -- liberating Iraq for RICH ELITES!!!!!
As Yakobi and his colleagues envision it, the development would include "a six-star hotel," spas, a yacht club, an amusement park, a shopping center, and luxury villas, built in the architectural style of the Ottoman Empire-era buildings in Old Baghdad. The complex would also have an 18-hole golf course, the "Tigris Woods Golf and Country Club," as it is called in preliminary sketches prepared by the Tourism Board.
And the Iraqis without power or social services, what about them?
Some might argue that Yakobi's vision is premature, if not absurd. Despite a drop in violence in Baghdad in recent months, Yakobi still cannot leave his office on Haifa Street without a convoy of armored cars and bodyguards. During an hourlong interview at his office recently, the lights blinked off, then on again as the building's generator kicked in, an event repeated many times a day throughout Iraq. It was not so long ago that American forces sometimes had to escort the workers at the Tourism Board home, shielding them from the firefights in the street.
Yup, but GO ON VACATION in IRAQ says the New York Times!
Must be PROGRESS, 'eh, Times?
What a SHIT-SHEET SCUM-BAG jewspaper!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yakobi, however, is by his own description an optimist, and he has at least some reason to believe that Iraq, known for its holy sites and antiquities, will once again be a tourist Mecca.
"Tourism depends on political stability more than security," he said, adding that he believed the security situation would continue to improve. "Tourists want entertainment, rest, relaxation. If they find that in any place, they will come."
Yup, and they ain't gonna find it in the SHIT HOLE the U.S. has turned your country into!! You would have been better off under Saddam!!!!!
The Tourism Board, he said, will hold a weeklong conference in Baghdad in November to promote the island - which is a little more than a mile long by less than a mile wide - and other projects. Those include a hotel expected to open soon in the ancient city of Babylon in Babel Province, where cholera cases have recently been reported.
Oh, yeah, let the BAD NEWS DRIBBLE OUT, you fucking god-damn jew liars!!!!!!!!!!!!! FUCK YOU and your GOD-DAMN LIES, NYT!!!!!!!!!!
Oh, yeah, about Babylon: Bush Fulfills Prophecy
Yakobi said representatives from the tourism industry around the world had been invited to the conference, though it was unclear how many would attend. "They will bring the message to all other countries that Iraq is secure," he said. "I am depending on them." ]
(Blog author sitting here stunned at the outright and blatant lying)
Hassan al-Fayadh, head of the Tourism Board's media relations department, was more skeptical.
"Western visitors are very sensitive to bombings and things like that," he said. "You can't achieve the tourism industry without security."
Oh, NO KIDDING?!!!!
In fact, the State Department strongly warns Americans against travel to Iraq. "Despite recent security improvements, Iraq remains dangerous, volatile, and unpredictable," its website says, noting that bombings, kidnappings, and mortar fire are common and that "such attacks can occur at any time."
Have you had it like me with the GOD-DAMN LYING of the AmeriKan government and its jewsmedia. readers?!!!!! Fuck you, New York Times!!!!!!!
What SHIT!!! ABSOLUTE SHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!
Charles MacDonald, an adviser to a member of the provincial parliament in Ontario, met Iraq's ambassador to Canada at a luncheon and decided to spend his vacation in Kurdistan. When he arrived, he said, Kurdish officials were astonished that he had come as a lone tourist, but they showed him the sights and arranged meetings with government leaders. MacDonald wanted to see more, so he hired a security firm and set up a quick trip to Baghdad's Green Zone.
"This is modern history, and I wished to experience it firsthand," he said."--more--"
Also see: Occupation Iraq: Tourist Hot Spot
