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(The Atlantic) Interesting What it was like to run a bar in Baghdad during the Iraq war   (theatlantic.com) divider line 52
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etherknot
2011-12-24 04:54:14 PM
Dry.
 
Ooba Tooba
2011-12-24 04:55:31 PM
That was quick. Done in one
 
Rodeodoc [TotalFark]
2011-12-24 05:01:01 PM
My dad led a Canadian military Police unit in WWII and his best time was the six months he supervised the local "coffee shop" near where they were based in France. One coffee pot and 14 pretty girls; they served more than a hot cafe au lait, if you know what I mean. His job was to make sure all the men were gone by 10 PM and that the Base CO never caught on to what was really going on there.

/good times
//thanks for your service, dad
 
Ooba Tooba
2011-12-24 05:01:05 PM
good story subs.
 
bwilson27
2011-12-24 05:02:32 PM
The nights were explosive.
 
Dingo7734
2011-12-24 05:05:20 PM
Think I might buy the book.
 
Smidge204
2011-12-24 05:07:21 PM
img39.imageshack.us
 
Wittenberg Dropout
2011-12-24 05:08:16 PM
I prefer the Chatsubo.
 
BesiktasBoy83
2011-12-24 05:09:52 PM
Rodeodoc: My dad led a Canadian military Police unit in WWII and his best time was the six months he supervised the local "coffee shop" near where they were based in France. One coffee pot and 14 pretty girls; they served more than a hot cafe au lait, if you know what I mean. His job was to make sure all the men were gone by 10 PM and that the Base CO never caught on to what was really going on there.

/good times
//thanks for your service, dad

Your brag is your father had sex with prostitutes and helped other men have sex with these woman/girls. Probably more than just normal sex: anal oral ect nice : font think I'd admit that
 
BesiktasBoy83
2011-12-24 05:11:02 PM
BesiktasBoy83: Rodeodoc: My dad led a Canadian military Police unit in WWII and his best time was the six months he supervised the local "coffee shop" near where they were based in France. One coffee pot and 14 pretty girls; they served more than a hot cafe au lait, if you know what I mean. His job was to make sure all the men were gone by 10 PM and that the Base CO never caught on to what was really going on there.

/good times
//thanks for your service, dad

Your brag is your father had sex with prostitutes and helped other men have sex with these woman/girls. Probably more than just normal sex: anal oral ect nice : font think I'd admit that

Don't
 
pudding7 [TotalFark]
2011-12-24 05:11:42 PM
Rodeodoc: My dad led a Canadian military Police unit in WWII and his best time was the six months he supervised the local "coffee shop" near where they were based in France. One coffee pot and 14 pretty girls; they served more than a hot cafe au lait, if you know what I mean. His job was to make sure all the men were gone by 10 PM and that the Base CO never caught on to what was really going on there.

/good times
//thanks for your service, dad

I don't know what you mean.
 
Clemkadidlefark
2011-12-24 05:14:20 PM
Route Irish retired the mortgage on my buddy's house, laid up a damn fine supply of surplus capital and bought his wife a new Ford F150 in just two years of "private contractor escort duty". And he got to throw a lot of rounds downrange at the bad guys. And has GREAT effing stories and a concussion headache he's still trying to shake,

This is an epic tale. Good stuff, subby.
 
fusillade762
2011-12-24 05:18:28 PM
The Baghdad Country Club, the only authentic bar and restaurant in Baghdad's Green Zone

You mean the most heavily fortified compound in the world? How hard could it be?
 
walkerhound
2011-12-24 05:20:31 PM
BesiktasBoy83: Rodeodoc: My dad led a Canadian military Police unit in WWII and his best time was the six months he supervised the local "coffee shop" near where they were based in France. One coffee pot and 14 pretty girls; they served more than a hot cafe au lait, if you know what I mean. His job was to make sure all the men were gone by 10 PM and that the Base CO never caught on to what was really going on there.

/good times
//thanks for your service, dad

Yeah, thanks, dad.

Your brag is your father had sex with prostitutes and helped other men have sex with these woman/girls. Probably more than just normal sex: anal oral ect nice : font think I'd admit that

go onnn....
 
ThisNameSux
2011-12-24 05:22:04 PM
fusillade762: You mean the most heavily fortified compound in the world? How hard could it be?

A bar full of mercenaries, special ops and other soldiers? Harder than you think.
 
Frederf
2011-12-24 05:27:02 PM
Hopefully the US Air Force would never provide a few rounds on the house.
 
ows
2011-12-24 05:31:08 PM
i don't know.

some chick covered head to toe in a burka that you set on fire and watch her "dance" for your amuezment?
 
The Stealth Hippopotamus [TotalFark]
2011-12-24 05:38:55 PM
Where car bombs half off?
 
i_dig_chicks
2011-12-24 05:39:16 PM
Here's my tag line to the same story I submitted 3 days ago and was not used.

What it takes to open a bar in Bagdad. Brass balls not mentioned

/bitter
 
Porous Horace
2011-12-24 05:44:43 PM
You don't know what it's like - being in there every day putting my ass on the line. And I don't have your order! Your waitress doesn't have your order! No one in the whole freaking bar has your order! You want a beer? You want a shot? You can't handle the booze! 'Cause when you reach over and put your hand into the ice cooler that used to be your best friend's face, you'll know what to do! Forget it Ali, it's Baghdadtown!
 
jim32rr [TotalFark]
2011-12-24 05:45:04 PM
i_dig_chicks: Here's my tag line to the same story I submitted 3 days ago and was not used.

What it takes to open a bar in Bagdad. Brass balls not mentioned

/bitter

K.I.S.S
 
sweet jeez
2011-12-24 05:54:43 PM
BesiktasBoy83: Rodeodoc: My dad led a Canadian military Police unit in WWII and his best time was the six months he supervised the local "coffee shop" near where they were based in France. One coffee pot and 14 pretty girls; they served more than a hot cafe au lait, if you know what I mean. His job was to make sure all the men were gone by 10 PM and that the Base CO never caught on to what was really going on there.

/good times
//thanks for your service, dad

Your brag is your father had sex with prostitutes and helped other men have sex with these woman/girls. Probably more than just normal sex: anal oral ect nice : font think I'd admit that

Id be there
 
Rodeodoc [TotalFark]
2011-12-24 05:57:02 PM
BesiktasBoy83
Your brag is your father had sex with prostitutes and helped other men have sex with these woman/girls. Probably more than just normal sex: anal oral ect nice : font think I'd admit that

Because military guys never have sex, right? What rock do you live under?
 
RoyBatty
2011-12-24 05:58:07 PM
BesiktasBoy83: Rodeodoc: My dad led a Canadian military Police unit in WWII and his best time was the six months he supervised the local "coffee shop" near where they were based in France. One coffee pot and 14 pretty girls; they served more than a hot cafe au lait, if you know what I mean. His job was to make sure all the men were gone by 10 PM and that the Base CO never caught on to what was really going on there.

/good times
//thanks for your service, dad

Your brag is your father had sex with prostitutes and helped other men have sex with these woman/girls. Probably more than just normal sex: anal oral ect nice : font think I'd admit that

Why wouldn't you admit that? Dad helped run a French whore house that catered to soldiers during WWII and put him at risk with the Base CO? That is an awesome story.
 
here to help
2011-12-24 05:58:38 PM
It's nice the author only used the guy's first name as requested so people wouldn't figure out what he did before opening the bar... and then went into unnecessary detail as to what he did before he opened a bar... in an article that tells you exactly where to find the guy.

Those reporter folks are some fine fellas.
 
depmode98
2011-12-24 06:14:22 PM
Clemkadidlefark: he got to throw a lot of rounds downrange at the bad guys

so your friend was an Iraqi freedom fighter who fought against the western invaders in Blair's oil wars? Or are you implying the bad guys were native iraqis who all of a sudden found themselves getting shot and run over by abrams tanks manned by white people who come from countries in a completely different hemisphere?
 
optional
2011-12-24 06:21:48 PM
www.wcnews.com
 
WTF_Are_You_Looking_At
2011-12-24 06:25:14 PM
The BAGHDAD COUNTRY CLUB is probably safer than the bars in some areas in the capital of the United States of America, Washington D.C.
Ironic... no?
 
hasty ambush
2011-12-24 06:32:07 PM
Cool or Spiffy tag

There are men who do stuff like join the Paras, become mercenaries and open bars in war zones.

Then there are people for whom the most exciting thing they have done in their lives are crossing a busy street to get to Starbucks, wait days in line for the latest I-Pad or defecated in public at a OWS gathering.
 
fusillade762
2011-12-24 06:32:39 PM
Sharia don't like it...
 
314/
2011-12-24 06:40:28 PM
Where's the Star Wars cantina gif?

/ lawn, etc.
 
shanrick [TotalFark]
2011-12-24 06:41:47 PM
Why couldn't they just brew everything there? No travel, no danger.
 
here to help
2011-12-24 06:43:44 PM
hasty ambush: or defecated in public at a OWS gathering.

Oh jeez. Really?!
 
WTF_Are_You_Looking_At
2011-12-24 06:43:46 PM
depmode98: Clemkadidlefark: he got to throw a lot of rounds downrange at the bad guys

so your friend was an Iraqi freedom fighter who fought against the western invaders in Blair's oil wars? Or are you implying the bad guys were native iraqis who all of a sudden found themselves getting shot and run over by abrams tanks manned by white people who come from countries in a completely different hemisphere?

Freedom fighters, soldiers, rebels, patriots, terrorists, insurgents, war heroes, cannon fodders etc. are all the same people.
It just depend on which side won because histories are written by the victors.
 
Mr. McNutt
2011-12-24 07:01:17 PM
BesiktasBoy83: Rodeodoc: My dad led a Canadian military Police unit in WWII and his best time was the six months he supervised the local "coffee shop" near where they were based in France. One coffee pot and 14 pretty girls; they served more than a hot cafe au lait, if you know what I mean. His job was to make sure all the men were gone by 10 PM and that the Base CO never caught on to what was really going on there.

/good times
//thanks for your service, dad

Your brag is your father had sex with prostitutes and helped other men have sex with these woman/girls. Probably more than just normal sex: anal oral ect nice : font think I'd admit that

You sound fat
 
Mock26
2011-12-24 07:02:00 PM
Once the shiates take over the country they can kiss alcohol goodbye! And when that happens people will remember the good old days, when Saddam was in power and people had freedom.
 
retarded [TotalFark]
2011-12-24 07:03:37 PM
I worked as a contractor in Kabul for a few years...there were a couple of underground bars out in the city that we would go to on occasion. Very expensive, something like $8 for a beer, twice as much for a mixed drink. But, well worth it to go and relax for a few hours considering the workload and general stress of living in one of the worst places on the planet.

The bars were guarded by locals strapped with AK-47s and if you were lucky you might have a conversation with a guard who happened to have some hash in his pocket that he wanted to get rid of.

Good times.
 
Sun Tzu
2011-12-24 07:23:47 PM
I met that guard...

Said he used to be an adventurer, like me.

t0.gstatic.com
 
jclaggett
2011-12-24 07:48:14 PM
fusillade762: Sharia don't like it...

Rock the cash bar...
 
fusillade762
2011-12-24 07:49:49 PM
Sun Tzu: I met that guard...

Said he used to be an adventurer, like me.

[t0.gstatic.com image 196x257]

Bartender Y U no get better knee armor?
 
Gyrfalcon [TotalFark]
2011-12-24 07:57:58 PM
etherknot: Dry.

Profitable.
 
JustinZ
2011-12-24 08:00:12 PM
images.gocomics.com
 
i.r.id10t
2011-12-24 08:12:52 PM
images.stanzapub.com

probably knows a thing or two...
 
Gyrfalcon [TotalFark]
2011-12-24 08:13:50 PM
Mock26: Once the shiates take over the country they can kiss alcohol goodbye! And when that happens people will remember the good old days, when Saddam was in power and people had freedom.

They already do. They used to have power, running water, and streets that were safe to walk in.
 
Knara
2011-12-24 09:03:16 PM
Mr. McNutt: BesiktasBoy83: Rodeodoc: My dad led a Canadian military Police unit in WWII and his best time was the six months he supervised the local "coffee shop" near where they were based in France. One coffee pot and 14 pretty girls; they served more than a hot cafe au lait, if you know what I mean. His job was to make sure all the men were gone by 10 PM and that the Base CO never caught on to what was really going on there.

/good times
//thanks for your service, dad

Your brag is your father had sex with prostitutes and helped other men have sex with these woman/girls. Probably more than just normal sex: anal oral ect nice : font think I'd admit that

You sound fat

And pastey

And prudish
 
petre
2011-12-24 09:12:50 PM
Also knows something about running a bar during a war:
3.bp.blogspot.com

/hot
 
My Bologna Has A Maiden Name
2011-12-24 09:30:12 PM
A bar in Iraq? Aren't those muslims forbidden to drink alcohol? Or was the bar solely for all the other people who had no business conquering the place? Either way, you get no sympathy from me.
 
Drunkndruid
2011-12-24 09:59:48 PM
Optional, You're my hero!

SNES Wing Commander 4tw
 
SuperNinjaToad
2011-12-24 10:24:56 PM
Apache pilots rerouted their flights over the bar so they could check out the stash.

that is so awesome!! I want to hit up that bar now..
 
EngineerBob
2011-12-24 11:05:57 PM
Rodeodoc

2011-12-24 05:01:01 PM


My dad led a Canadian military Police unit in WWII and his best time was the six months he supervised the local "coffee shop" near where they were based in France. One coffee pot and 14 pretty girls; they served more than a hot cafe au lait, if you know what I mean. His job was to make sure all the men were gone by 10 PM and that the Base CO never caught on to what was really going on there.

/good times
//thanks for your service, dad

But did he get paid in M & M Enterprises stock?
 
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