You wouldn't have even read that before the war, why do you have such a defeatist attitude?
i wouldn't have read about an amusement park opening in Baghdad before the war? You and I have little clue what was going on there, good news wise, because they weren't news-worthy to us in the west.
We are talking about an amusement park opening MM. Big deal in comparison to IED's, you fellow service dying from a motor round, or a suicide bomber.
It takes nothing to open a park up. i wonder if it's has lots of people going there and do they have security? Good place for a suicide bomber.