This is a little OT, but before the Iraq invasion, was it possible to visit Iraq as a tourist?
I suppose in the 90s it was relatively peaceful. Perhaps it would be like visiting a communist country, in that it would be very difficult to enter and you'd be constantly monitored by some security goon if you got in?
It would probably have been quite depressing in the 90s. It would have been in the aftermath of Saddam killing about half a million people in a failed uprising against him, complete with plenty of bombing targets from Gulf War.
You might be treated to the site of UN Weapons inspectors fruitlessly searching for things, as well as a "We love Saddam!" Parade.
Has anyone been to Baathist Iraq?
A shame I didn't go when it still existed
I suppose in the 90s it was relatively peaceful. Perhaps it would be like visiting a communist country, in that it would be very difficult to enter and you'd be constantly monitored by some security goon if you got in?
It would probably have been quite depressing in the 90s. It would have been in the aftermath of Saddam killing about half a million people in a failed uprising against him, complete with plenty of bombing targets from Gulf War.
You might be treated to the site of UN Weapons inspectors fruitlessly searching for things, as well as a "We love Saddam!" Parade.
Has anyone been to Baathist Iraq?
A shame I didn't go when it still existed
