[HawkeyeLonewolf]

Wonder who got to them!

[Spackidagoosh]

Ungrateful bas%^@#%%^@%

[formercalifornian]

And the Pearls don't want Cheney to use their son's name while campaigning either. These are historical facts and shouldn't have limits placed on them. The other side recognizes no limits in what they use in campaigns.

[brightstar]

Sadir is an ungrateful Baathist swine.

Did Sports Illustrated not talk to any of the other Iraqi athletes?

[camle]

where was all the outrage when mochael moore used footage from a us soldier's funeral without permission in his moneymaking film??

selective outrage on display.

[Miles the Slasher]

"Iraq as a team does not want Mr. Bush to use us for the presidential campaign," Sadir told SI.com through a translator, speaking calmly and directly. "He can find another way to advertise himself."

Just goes to show that, truly, no good deed goes unpunished.

[John Jorsett]

Nice sentiments from somebody who Uday would have been stuffing into an Iron Maiden for losing to Morocco.

[KellyAdmirer]

Hey, Sadir, if you had lost that game at the last Olympics, you might have been tortured or beaten or killed by your wonderful leaders before President Bush came along. Think about it.

[OneTimeLurker]

Unreal. Just unreal.

[PeterPrinciple]

To a man, members of the Iraqi Olympic delegation say they are glad that former Olympic committee head Uday Hussein, who was responsible for the serial torture of Iraqi athletes and was killed four months after the U.S.-led coalition invaded Iraq in March 2003, is no longer in power.



Remember, everything we read here is filtered through a liberal reporter with an agenda.

[ladtx]

"Iraq as a team does not want Mr. Bush to use us for the presidential campaign," Sadir told SI.com through a translator, speaking calmly and directly. "He can find another way to advertise himself."

Hmm. One can only imagine how the question was framed to illicit this type of response.

[Dog Gone]

In fact, Manajid says, if he were not playing soccer he would "for sure" be fighting as part of the resistance.

[CzarNicky]

Cane their feet until their attitude improves.

[CaptRon]

Guess he preferred the way Uday (or Qusay) treated them.

[boomop1]

Take their balls away.

[brightstar]

What about the Iraqi soccer players whom Uday used to torture? Anybody ask them what they think about Bush?

[norton]

Would this be an appropriate place to state that I hope Austrailia kicks their sorry collective ass into a trash bin?

[brightstar]

Manajid, 22, who nearly scored his own goal with a driven header on Wednesday, hails from the city of Fallujah. He says coalition forces killed Manajid's cousin, Omar Jabbar al-Aziz, who was fighting as an insurgent, and several of his friends. In fact, Manajid says, if he were not playing soccer he would "for sure" be fighting as part of the resistance.

Essentially, they interviewed family members of terrorists.

[Half Vast Conspiracy]

I can only imagine what Vietnam will say to the Kerry campaign!

[Publius6961]

Just Damn!
I guess we all know what side of saddam this guy is.

[MizSterious]

So, he was happier when Hussein was running things? Maybe he enjoyed the torture?