An all exclusive club, in a gated community! Shows what the elite of this administration for what they truly are. Monarchists, elites. Let the multitude rot.

And the mindless march of folly moves on and on!

At least President McCain will be able to spend an few days at a time there, relaxing and enjoying the 5 Star treatment in a luxurious outpost of the American Empire. It must be such an inconvenience for President Bush and his evil vice-president to have to sneak in and out in the middle of the night. I know Vice-president Joe Lieberman will appreciate the opportunity to stroll with his wife in the Bagdad moonlight. If we are going to occupy Iraq for 100 more years, it is important that the outpost be a "slice" of America and not suffer with the living conditions of the natives.

Maybe then the diplomatic corps will be will willing to serve extended terms there, and not make the Secretary of State ashamed of them.

I guess the shell holes can double as sand traps on the golf course, and the gentle golfer's call of "Fore" will be replaced by the shrill yell of "Incoming!".

Does anyone really think that the Iraqi people will tolerate this? What a great target for would-be terrorists. The empire is going downhill quickly.
Hoa binh

How odd and small minded... They (the Bush regime and its enablers) labor all these years, feed thousands of people (U.S. service men and women as well as Iraqi citizens) into the maw of this neverending occupation, and this is their solution for revitalizing what they've destroyed: turning it into a U.S. suburban subdivision.
I do wonder how many Iraqis would actually benefit from such a scheme, should it ever come to fruition. Not too many, I imagine. The work would go to entities like Halliburton and KBR who would, in turn, hire non-Iraqis to do all the heavy lifting. It's what they've done all along.

I imagine the whole of Iraq will be dotted with big churches and christian schools as well in order to "teach the savages" the "christian way" as we did with the Indians here.

Wow, I can just picture this story in the Arab press. Another amazing move to make sure we lose all the hearts and all the minds.

When they are lying, its always interesting how it sneaks out sometimes. For instance, consider all you've heard from the Pentagon about not building permanent bases when reading this from the Navy Captain Karnowski.

"When you have $1bn hanging out there and 1,000 employees lying around, you kind of want to know who your neighbours are. You want to influence what happens in your neighbourhood over time,"

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I do suspect the term 'lying around' for the State Dept employees was an unfortunate slip.

Anybody care to contribute themes for the theme park?

A skatepark? Maybe some future Francis Ford Coppola can have one of his characters say "Ahmed don't skate!" when he makes the inevitable "Heart of Darkness"-style movie about our occupation of Iraq.

The horror. . . the horror. . .

sick..............

The citizens of Iraq can't seem to get adequate water to drink, but the U.S. taxpayers build a golf course? We really have our priorities mixed up!!

Wow, this is what we're thinking about for the future of Baghdad? A golf course... a place for the upper upper class to hang out on the weekends? Every American and Iraqi is being taken advantage of by the administration, and if you don't see it you're blind.

Moreover, Edward...
the Pentagon has an unending (hoping NOT!!) supply of money to solicit such architectural sketches

Let's see - some of the games in the park could be

waterbo.. er skateboarding,

Dodge Cars - new twist - whoever can drive a course without exploding an IED.

etcetera, etcetera

Now you really know just how Lunatic these people are !

Ever wonder why declining states feel it necessary to spread their degenerative social and cultures cancers to the rest of the world? They must either project outward, or seriously reconstruct themselves internally. The latter never happens because it disrupts the power base.
The U.S. is well past the point where objective, well-intentioned persons could reconstruct the system to actually serve the interests of its citizens. Thus, we contaminate the rest of the world with the very moral and cultural poisons that domestically destroyed us.

Let's see. We destroyed a country. We destroyed a culture. We destroyed the infrastructure. We destroyed all public utilities, i.e. water, electricity, etc. We destroyed schools, universities, museums with priceless antiquities, hospitals, public parks, zoos, homes, businesses. In the process we displaced about 2-3 million people.

And what our government has in mind, in the way of reparations, for ravaging a country, is skateboards, Disneyland, shopping malls, and golfcourses?

Only in Bushworld.

It's hot over there. I wonder on what hole they will wash their balls?

I always had a huge problem hitting a golf ball straight when dressed in slacks and shirt. Can't imagine how it would be while wearing a flak jacket and helmet.

Wonder if we will rebuild the Iraqi hospitals, schools, and ifastructures before construction starts on the theme park and intertainment center? Gonna need a lot of hospitals and morgues there too as more and more people become seriously ill and die from radiation poisoning. Radiation readings in Baghdad are still 2,000 times the safe maximun limit.

http://www.gulfwarvets.com/du_blowinginthewind.htm

I think you nailed it COCO.

When you start getting mortal fire on the back 9, it is time to call it a day.

Nice to see COMMONDREAMS is running a bit of humor to break up the awful news about our dismal future ......... thanks.

In 2 years, the USA will be struggling to fill a pothole, much less building this monstrosity!

Shopping malls and gold course resorts, sounds to me like a wonderland for the thousand employees occupying the US embassy compound. Shame on us!

Make it six months ~Quousque~

Y'all seem to forget the US' "Ballistic Missile Shield" project. It won't work in the US (or Europe, etc), but maybe it will find a new life protecting the Green Zone from incoming home-made rockets and mortars. :)

Tigris Woods? How about calling it the YouFraidies?

Why is the Pentagon running this show?

Any more evidence needed to prove that Bush NEVER had an 'exit strategy'?

The idiocy of the great government of the U S OF A!!! Geez!! Disgusting! I think I'm going to vomit.

In Vietnam, the Vietcong easily made inexpensive, twentyone foot long, one foot in diameter poles, that were easily transported by hand in seven, three foot long sections. We called them "telephone poles".

The problem was, the first eight feet of the poles were stuffed with high explosives, like a thousand pound bomb. The rear section of the pole was stuffed with solid rocket fuel. They had a range of about ten miles and were easily set up and fired. They were only accurate to winthin about a quarter mile, but when they hit they could obliterate a large two story building and when incoming, no one knew where they were gonna hit. ___ Scary.

The only halfway safe place from one of the incoming poles, were arched aircraft shelters that were constructed with foot thick reinforced concrete and don't be caught standing or huddling in the wide open front and rear doorways.

I like that "obliterate" word, just learned it last week. It sounds more meaningful and omnious, than just saying destroy, wipe out or demolish.

Anyway, imagine if and when some Iraqis who are protesting our militay presence in THEIR country, decide to use telephone poles to exhibit their distaste and hard feelings. Six to eight of those babies dropping in every night or so will screw up one's much needed rest and relaxation, after a hard day of 18 holes, or perhaps cleaning one of the Olympic sized pools.

Bombs bursting in air and the neverending sandstorms - who needs gitmo anymore? Greed has gone insane!

We've seen what IED's can do to a Humvee, I can't imagine what it would do to a golf cart.

This is the beginning of the future Naomi Klein described in Shock Doctrine. The world is going to become red zones and green zones.

What a gyp! No casino?

"Hit go to prove our Gawd is bigger than they Gawd." A very decent, honest, sincere person I know actually said words to that effect not long ago. Hard worker, good husband and father, etc. How to understand?

Who got the contract for porta toilets, KBR maybe?

I hear they are planning a nice big zoo too, so the Iraqi children can learn more about the real world. ___ Real world??? I think they already know about the REAL world.

I see they put up rest rooms on the city streets in Atlanta Georgia that cost over a million bucks each. The high tech push button flush, stainless steel shitters cost $300,000 each alone. Meanwhile they are laying off hundreds of city employees there due to a serious budget crunch. So stupidity and corruption are not just a way of life in our foreign occupied Green Zone.

Our Gawd is gonna getus ~Bubba~.

Blackwater shooting gallery

"The Surge" endless roller coaster

Oh, the possibilities!

KEM PATRICK -

Your 50 year old friend who got called back into service.
Enlisted or officer? A friend wants to know.

I'd like to hear from anyone.

He's an enlisted "swine" LOCUST. He's only 46 years old. Officers and Warrant Officers get re-called from 'inactive' duty also, up to the age of 55, if their job qualification is termed to be 'critical', ___helicopter pilots, artillary, crypto analyists, etc. Many of the junior military officers have quit in disgust and many also have been hired by KBRs Blackwater, where they would likely be safe from a recall.

How does the "Green Zone" plan to protect its occupants from nuclear radiation? Do they plan to live in a huge clean-air bubble under a bright blue sky?
Military imagination creates unimaginable diseases, far worse than that of our most brilliant astronomers, all consequent on the worship of the "great" god Money.

Theme: Murder for Oil
Conclusion: End of Empire
Morale: Karma Never Forgets

I am apalled but not too surprised at the ugliness of the building in the artists rendering. Where do they go to find people to design such garbage? Then again what would you expect from adminstration whose "way of life is non-negotiable"?

Have you seen the photos of the embassy POET?
It is a horrible looking mess on 104 acres of Iraqi soil ___ and we paid for it, $78 million bucks and it's already falling apart.

Can you imagine the Masters being played at the Tigris Woods Golf and County Club?

My last coment is 'awating moderation'. Which means it's visible only on my computer screen.

Imagine how much fun the Blackwater boys are having. Shoot a few Iraqis in the morning so they can make their tee time in the afternoon. Crack open a few cold ones while they play, and then take their wives shopping in the evening. Hell, maybe they might even have enough time to catch a show. Why are we in Iraq?

OUTF***INGRAGEOUS!!!!!!!

An army source said, ". . . we will give it back to them with added value."

When?

So the MilitaryIndustrialComplex is evolving. I feel like we're reading about FutureWorld. And what it looks like there can look the same here. An entire world of have too muches and have nothings.

kathyodat