As a juxtaposition see Slow Saturday Special: Iraqi Surge of Violence before reading this outright propaganda. Then, when you are done with the propaganda, reflect on the omission. See any violence reported in there?
Can I rest my case, readers? The lying, Zionist-controlled, agenda-pushing, war-promoting AmeriKan MSM has never quit lying about Iraq, folks, and likely never will. They can't tell the truth now without exposing themselves for the absolute liars they are, and thus tell even greater lies (an omission is also a lie since it deprives the reader of information needed to make a critical judgement) like all liars.
Instead we get this s***:
"In Baghdad, cafes beginning to light up the night life; With security stabilizing, clubs catch on" by Monte Morin, Los Angeles Times | March 13, 2009
BAGHDAD - Outside the Soltan Nights cafe in central Baghdad, the air is thick with the exhaust of countless diesel generators and a sandstorm that turns the sky the color of dishwater.
Inside, men lounge on carpet-draped sofas and fill their lungs not with dust and smog, but with clouds of dizzying, fruit-sweetened tobacco smoke inhaled from water pipes.
Okay, so let me get this straight: "Liberation" and "freedom" mean CLUBBING and SMOKING? Then why they saying smoking a health risk here if it's positive for Arabs (smoke themselves to death part of the Muslim-hating agenda, too, or....)?
At one table, young men talk about money and potential investments, while at the next table a gray-haired man sits alone, reading. A silent wide-screen television bolted to the wall flashes music videos. Below it, a waiter prepares a hookah for two more customers, stoking the pipe's hot coals by inhaling deeply from the mouthpiece and exhaling jets of white smoke.
"Look!" a man says as he points to the smoke clouds. "He looks like a train. Whoo! Whoo!"
Although hookah cafes have enjoyed a fad in Western cities in the past few years, and smoking establishments are common throughout the Middle East, Iraqis only recently have embraced them.
The reason: Under dictator Saddam Hussein, the smoke-filled shisha clubs were seen as a breeding ground for conspiracy and dissent. The few restaurants and hotels allowed to open the cafes required numerous government permits and attracted a corps of eavesdropping intelligence agents.
Ironically, that doesn't sound to far from what AmeriKa has become the last few decades.
It wasn't until the last year, when Iraq's security situation began to stabilize and business investment began to trickle back, that shisha cafes started popping up on Baghdad's streets.
Today the city has hundreds of them, varying from hole-in-the-wall dives to lavishly decorated salons. "We Iraqis needed only one thing, and that was security," said Ali Hassan, 35, the bald and flamboyant owner of City Cafe in the Camp Sara section of Baghdad.
In front of the cafe, two monkeys jump from perches in an enormous cage, while holiday lights flicker on a plastic palm tree. Inside, expensively dressed young men pile their cellphones on the tables in front of them and order tea and shisha pipes.
"Now that we have security, we have what we want and we're all set. Young men can come and meet and chat and smoke, and they're very happy with life," Hassan said.
"As long as al-Maliki is here, we're going to be in good shape," he said, referring to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, whose popularity has surged.
The shameless, agenda-pushing propaganda and promotion is getting intolerable, folks. This (and the atrocious reporting on our high-school finalists) is why I'm giving up newspapers tomorrow.
Wala Mohammed, a 23-year-old engineer, says he stops by City Cafe daily: "This is a nice place.... I come with friends and we talk about cars, sports, girls, and security."
Shisha smoke, which is forced through water and cooled, is much less harsh than cigarette smoke, and the tobacco is sweetened and scented with apricots, cinnamon, mango, apple, and other flavors. Each serving of tobacco is about $5.
They are SMOKING through a BONG, readers -- and I GUARANTEE that it is NOT ALL TOBACCO!!!! Right next door is the BEEKA VALLEY and a PRIMO HASH!!!
Between that and the five-times-a-day prayers you really start to wonder about Muslim extremists, etc, doncha? Throw in all you know about "Al-CIA-Duh," etc, and the stuff really starts to stink, doesn't it?
A good portion of the popularity of shisha cafes comes from Iraqis who had fled the nation during the darkest days of war and sectarian strife.
Translation: OUR WESTERNIZED EXILES and AGENTS are DELIVERING VICE the "liberated" Iraqis!! I'm disgusted is this is "liberation" while the sewage and electrical systems are on the fritz!
"Many Iraqis went to Turkey, Egypt, and Syria, and they were introduced to shisha cafes," Mohammed said. "When they came back to Iraq, they brought a taste for it back with them."
Few cafe owners can speak to the trend as authoritatively as Muneer Khadam, 40, who owns Al Baghdadi Coffee Shop on Abu Nuwas Street along the Tigris River.
Khadam's cafe was one of the few that served up shisha pipes under Hussein. During the 2003 invasion, US troops quickly occupied his restaurant, in a strategic location near a bridge to government buildings in central Baghdad, the area that today is the fortified Green Zone.
The troops are gone now, and Khadam reopened nine months ago. The cafe is packed with shisha smoking customers, most of them Iraqi government employees, on weekend nights.
Khadam laughed when asked why shisha cafes are more popular now.... Under Hussein, Khadam said, eavesdropping security men drove much of his business away. Today, however, customers are happy to see security forces and hired guards keeping an eye on things....
Yeah, the Iraqis love the new dictatorship and history will record George W. Bush won Iraq! Pffft!
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