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Visit Iraq for sea, sun, sand and... erm...
BillieTheBot
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I must admit that silly season this year is providing some real goodies. Only last week, we had the story about cows in Somerset having a West Country accent. And now this, courtesy of the Mail on Sunday.
Apparently, the Government had ambitious (I would say barmy) plans to turn Iraq into some sort of holiday destination. A bored Mail journalist managed to drag this out of the government using the Freedom of Information Act. We are told that "The Government dossier suggests drumming up foreign visitors by placing battlefield debris at strategic points around the country and transforming northern areas into upmarket ski resorts. The £80,000 report was commissioned in 2004 to examine ways Iraq could be opened up to tourists after the fall of Saddam Hussein." (click here for more)
Oh god, I wish I was making this up... I don't particularly care about the fact that this is a strange use of public money, or indeed a very odd thing for the Government to be doing at all. Don't you just want Tony Blair to go on holiday there?
Anyway, where would you recommend our leaders go on holiday to?
(I told you it was a silly season thread...)
Apparently, the Government had ambitious (I would say barmy) plans to turn Iraq into some sort of holiday destination. A bored Mail journalist managed to drag this out of the government using the Freedom of Information Act. We are told that "The Government dossier suggests drumming up foreign visitors by placing battlefield debris at strategic points around the country and transforming northern areas into upmarket ski resorts. The £80,000 report was commissioned in 2004 to examine ways Iraq could be opened up to tourists after the fall of Saddam Hussein." (click here for more)
Oh god, I wish I was making this up... I don't particularly care about the fact that this is a strange use of public money, or indeed a very odd thing for the Government to be doing at all. Don't you just want Tony Blair to go on holiday there?
Anyway, where would you recommend our leaders go on holiday to?
(I told you it was a silly season thread...)
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I'm sure the input and money from Tourism would be valuable when peace finally arrives in Iraq.
And look at the number of people who visit centuries old battle sights, they'd lap it up.
Yup.
Lots of potential. Hell, I'd go to look at the tanks myself, haha. Half of them have been there since the Iran/Iraq war.
The few miles long trip from airport to the Green Zone in Baghdad, for instance, can cost up to $2,000- that's several times more than the air fare to get there in the first place.
Never a bigger collection of vultures, speculators, thieves and murderers have assembled in one place. I'd rather take a holiday in Iran wearing a Salman Rushdie t-shirt.