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DEMOCRACY, WHISKEY, SEXY! ?BAGHDAD, Iraq - Vice is making a comeback in this city once famous for 1?

By Glenn Reynolds

DEMOCRACY, WHISKEY, SEXY! “BAGHDAD, Iraq - Vice is making a comeback in this city once famous for 1,001 varieties of it. . . . Nightclubs have reopened, and in many of them, prostitutes troll for clients. Liquor stores, once shut down by fundamentalist militiamen, have proliferated; on one block of busy Saddoun Street, there are more than 10 of them. bu Nawas Park, previously deserted for fear of suicide bombers seeking vulnerable crowds, has now become a place for assignations between young people so inclined. It is not that there are hiding places in the park, where trees are pretty sparse; the couples just pretend they cannot be seen, and passers-by go along with the pretense.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on April 20, 2009 (boomark / email).