Iraq the board game! - "Battle to Baghdad: The Fight for Freedom"

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

An Oregon company, Jiggi Games, has released Battle to Baghdad: The Fight for Freedom. The game is set in March 2003, with U.S. forces racing across the desert. "You will take out airports, night bomb cities, hunt down Saddam Hussein, and take over Baghdad," say the instructions. The goal is to conquer Baghdad without running out of soldiers while drawing cards like "Car bomber ... You lose 200 troops" or "Air drop ... You gain 300 troops." One card shows a female soldier holding a naked detainee on a leash and reads, "Disgrace: Some soldiers are found guilty of unlawful treatment and inhumane acts of violence toward Iraqi prisoners. You lose 100 troops!"

The game was conceived by Rick and Michele Medina of Klamath Falls, Ore., youth pastors who say they wanted a family-friendly game that would support the military. "I was hoping that maybe this would show Americans what are really going through over there," says Rick. They are marketing it to military families and veterans; one customer bought one for her son in Iraq. The game's missing just one thing: an exit strategy."

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10118026/site/newsweek/

After receiving critical e-mails, Rick (who is apparently against the occupation) said this:

"It had never crossed my mind that people would object. Iraq is on the television, in the media and part of our lives.

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."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/11/27/wbagh27.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/11/27/ixworld.html

Here's the instructions - it sounds dull as fuck:
http://www.battletobaghdad.com/index_files/Page330.htm

Finally, you know you want to ... order it here!
http://www.battletobaghdad.com/

[KamaAina]

1. I've always thought the PNACers treated the world like a Risk board

now I'm certain of it. :puke:

[Fenris]

2. a family-friendly game that would support the military.

Uh....

[Qanisqineq]

3. family friendly!

Bombing, killing, hunting humans, torture, forced nudity, and losing troops! Wow, if I had kids I know this would be in under the tree this year.

I have a 5 month old niece with a born-again, Bush-loving, pro-Iraq War mother (my sister)- maybe I should get this for her first Christmas.

[tocqueville]

4. the game "Keeping Baghdad - stay the course"

was a flop

a planned follower

"Leaving Baghdad - cut and run" has been put undefinitly on hold...