Bagdad

[comloulou]

Slightly different take on the issue here. If I think of Bagdad and try to forget Sadam, the dust and the oppression, it feels like the city would be a beautiful enchanting place. The kind of Aladdin and Jafaar type place with temples and spice markets. Am I mental or was this the case, has it been deadened and greyed by all the conflict and oppression?

[darth vader]

The same could have been said about Lebanon 40 years ago.... (Bethlehem 40 years ago....)

[comloulou]

so the answer is yes then? I wonder if anyone knows a website that doesnt focus on the war that could back up my imagination?

[darth vader]

sorry yes the answer is yes - it is because of our inbuilt requirement to bomb the cr@p out of everything that is wonderful in this world, that we are destined to go to ruin.

[Cetti]

Are you after the Arabian Nights type of pictures comloulou? This is quite a large site, the historical link should give you a flavour of the place. http://users.pandora.be/juergen.forster/Iraq_Anfan
g.html

[comloulou]

thankyou Cetti!

[map08]

Well, have you noticed the live pictures from Baghdad? I mean, when there's not bits of the city flying around the place. It looks quite nice, green, with beautiful buildings; in fact, one of the first civilisations on earth was started in Baghdad, or near enough - the Babylonians. Maybe you could go on holiday there...or then again, maybe not, considering the possibilities...