[JLS]

And if one were an Iraqi who was told they were in a Bush ad, one might want to say a similar thing to keep the terrorist off you back and your families back. These guys have to go back home and survive in Iraq. Who knows what their real feelings are.

[88keys]

Right...not only the biased reporting (Najaf does not "lie in ruins", and if it does, it sure as heck isn't our fault...hello? Sad'r?? you're fighting your own people...) but the consequences these soccer players will face when they get back home to good old Fallujah...you'd darned well better say the insurgents are "freedom fighters," at least at the moment...

I'd be interested too in who their new "coach" is, as well as how the "interview questions" were framed, and who the translator is...

[Irish Eyes]

And if one were an Iraqi who was told they were in a Bush ad, one might want to say a similar thing to keep the terrorist off you back and your families back. These guys have to go back home and survive in Iraq. Who knows what their real feelings are.

Interesting take on this, I had not thought of it in this way. However for one of them to say if he had not been playing soccer he would be fighting the Americans does make my blood boil.