Raucous bar scene emerges in Baghdad's green zone

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.boston.com/dailynews/168/world/Raucous_bar_scene_emerges_in_BP.shtml

The job of occupying Iraq means hardship and long hours and sometimes a game of Risk over a hookah and a few beers.

In a city where few people drink, Baghdad's sealed-off green zone counts at least seven bars, including a Thursday night disco, a sports bar, a British pub, a rooftop bar run by General Electric, and a bare-bones trailer-tavern operated by the contractor Bechtel.

Only employees of the occupation are welcome in most of them. U.S. troops ejected a reporter from the basement sports bar a few months ago, at the instance of Coalition Provisional Authority employees drinking inside.

The plushest tavern is the CIA's rattan furnished watering hole, known as the ''OGA bar.'' OGA stands for ''Other Government Agency,'' the CIA's low-key moniker.

The OGA bar has a dance floor with a revolving mirrored disco ball and a game room. It is open to outsiders by invitation only. Disgruntled CPA employees who haven't wangled invites complain that the CIA favors women guests.

[Piperay]

1. Western decadence

I'm sure the very religious Iraqis just love that, so much for trying to 'win their hearts and minds'. :eyes: :argh:

[Tosca]

2. yee haw!

Livin' on the edge, baby! Gimme another boilermaker!

[bahrbearian]

10. So when does Happy Hour start in these here parts!

[0007]

3. Wait till Joe Conforte brings his girls to Iraq

[htuttle]

4. I'm betting Uncle Duke hangs out at the OGA bar

Seems like his kind of place...

[markses]

5. Roof of the Rex, Continental 10th Floor

Keep 'em coming.

The dionysiac orgy, with all its cruelty.

[saigon68]

9. I was there

Along with a few watering holes on Tu Do St. And some other establishments on Trung Minh Ky.

[underpants]

6. Hookahs?

:smoke:

Okay I'll admit it I don't know what is usually smoked in hookahs, tobacco?

[htuttle]

8. Usually it's shisha

Mixture of tobbaco and various flavorings, like apples, dates, etc...

[thebigidea]

11. I think they're gonna need a lot more than dates to stay sane in Baghdad

[BrotherBuzz]

23. Hookah smoking caterpillar?

White Rabbit?

[sangh0]

7. Another transparent attempt

to get international support for Bush*ies Big Adventure

"C'mon down to Iraq where the partying never ends!"

[thebigidea]

12. fry a man's testicles, then enjoy our authentic Disco Ball(TM)

[saigon68]

19. OR SHOVE A FLASHLIGHT UP HIS RECTUM

all in a days work for these Thugs and Hoodlums

[Coventina]

13. This may be a dumb question but...

are there enough women there to have a disco / pickup scene????

[sangh0]

14. Ask Military Intelligence

They seem to have an endless supply.

[htuttle]

16. Dyncorp brings them in from Bosnia

Pimping, drug dealing, fraud -- all in a day's work at BushCo.

[dArKeR]

15. 'Just like Vietnam, who are they making lover to?' I posted 3 months ago,

I can't believe in the year 2004 our American Whore Media can pretend that our soldiers are NOT having sex with Iraqi women/men.

[NMDemDist2]

18. I saw a story here a week or so ago about a couple

him US Army, her Iraqi, waiting in Kuwait for her visa to come home with her "soldier husband"

[Trajan]

17. Will it be long before ...

The Disco ball is being filmed by news-cameras: rolling through fresh flames through puddles of blood in a now yawning, wide-open building blown to rubble by yet ANOTHER 'insurgent' bomb ? ...

These fellas are playing with fire: ...

[CharlesGroce]

20. I'm sure they DO favor women guests...

I wonder what these dorks talk about with their lady guests. Think they describe how exciting it is to subjugate a population and act beyond the view of the American people, the only body capable of keeping American government in check? I bet it's very invigorating talking about past plotting against and participating in the murdering of people who are just fighting because their family was murdered by a 'daisy cutter.' Such an individual is just a hostile to these ignorant people.

I know, I know, just doing your job. But I thought you people were supposed to be educated, I guess I was wrong. That's America's education system for you...

[CharlesGroce]

21. Maybe you need some recommended reading...

Ditch the Robert Ludlum crap and read some Dostoyevsky!

[number6]

22. oOGA ... oOGA ...

:smoke: