Up Up and Away
This past week the Iraq Prime Minister Nouri Maliki, bowing to pressure from the U.S. Adminstration to shake up his government, changed his Minister of Tourism. As Dave Barry says, I'm not making this up. At last, I thought, some real progress, putting life back into a potential engine for the Iraqi economy. I mean, think about it, throngs of German tourists sunning themselves on the endless stretches of sand along the Tigris and Euphrates, going pub crawling until the wee hours when the suicide bombers are off-duty, or admiring the painting at the National Art Museum, you know, the one not good enough to get looted. What was the old minister thinking? Here he was, sitting on a potential goldmine, and the best he could do was hide out in the Green Zone watching "Gilligan's Island" reruns.
posted by John M Crowther @ 7:28 AM
4 Comments:
OK, when I think that you can not top the cartoon of the day, you come up with one even better. Love this, will keep me chuckling all day in this miserable weather that we are having right now. Cold, wet and too dark to paint in studio. Hey, I bet he put the fear of Allah in the rest of the government officials with that strong decision! Not to mention the suicide bombers.
Sign me up! I seem to have a slew of recently retired friends who are somehow signed up for these travel bargains. They claim that if they are willing to go to the most ungodly places at the most ungainly times they can live much more cheaply than staying at home :-)
LOL, Dick. Yes, I hear everyone's doing Ulan Bator this season.
Not to be outdone by Iraq, Israel’s Minister of Tourism, Isaac Herzog, announced these holiday travel bargains, available now: round trip ticket from LA or NYC to occupied Palestine; three days and nights in Arafat’s old bunker; free glass of Manischewitz Pinot Grigot and combo hummus/pastrami plate with genuine Kosher pickle served by waiter in bullet-proof jacket.
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