Saturday, December 03, 2005

No Shame, No Brains!


"Battle for Baghdad, The Fight for Freedom"

I had to look this up to believe it!

The United States-led invasion of Iraq may not have been quite the "cakewalk" predicted by some, but now it has been made into a board game and released on the American market just in time for Christmas.
Based on events that actually occurred during and after the invasion, cards drawn by the players determine whether they gain or lose troops from their initial 3,000-strong force on Iraq's borders.
Chance cards like in Monopoly:
"Disgrace", appears on a card of a female soldier holding an Iraqi detainee on a leash. It reads: "Some soldiers are found guilty of unlawful treatment and inhumane acts of violence towards Iraqi prisoners. You lose 100 troops."
And in another, a "beautiful young woman" takes out 50 men in a suicide bombing.
Many have complained:
"This is the height of American capitalist arrogance. A company can produce a board game so that our children can trivialise and misinterpret the destruction of a nation, the corruption of our nation, the slaughter of humans, American and Iraqi."
The creator said
"As an American, I was raised to believe that we should have ideas and try to make money out of them. That's the American way."
Read the full article here

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