Posted on 08/20/2004 4:28:17 AM PDT by Dr. Scarpetta
Iraqi soccer players said they are angered that President Bush has referred to their Olympic delegation in a campaign ad and called on him to stop, Sports Illustrated reported Thursday on its Web site.
"Iraq as a team does not want Mr. Bush to use us for the presidential campaign," Iraqi midfielder Salih Sadir told SI.com through a translator. "He can find another way to advertise himself."
The Bush campaign is running an ad in which the flags of Iraq and Afghanistan appear.
A narrator says, "At this Olympics there will be two more free nations - and two fewer terrorist regimes. With strength, resolve and courage, democracy will triumph over terror and hope will defeat hatred."
There are no images of Iraqi soccer players in the ad.
Another player was harshly critical of the president.
"How will he meet his god having slaughtered so many men and women?" Ahmed Manajid told SI.com. "He has committed so many crimes."
There was no immediate response from the Bush campaign on the criticism from the Iraqis.
The players said they were grateful that Saddam Hussein's son, Uday, was no longer in charge of the country's Olympians, SI.com reported. He had tortured players for playing badly. U.S. troops killed him last year in Mosul.
Still, the team's coach said the ad was inappropriate and that the team does not support the U.S. occupation of Iraq.
"My problems are not with the American people," Iraqi coach Adnan Hamad told SI.com.
"They are with what America has done in Iraq: destroy everything," he said. "The American army has killed so many people in Iraq. What is freedom when I go to the (national) stadium and there are shootings on the road?"
From wire reports
Ungratefu SOBs.
I wonder if this is actually true.
How refreshing :)
How about we slap a uniform on these ingrates and send them to Najaf to do the dirty work that our boys are doing.
Watch Katie Commie jump all over this one.
I hope they lose badly in the next round. I made a joking post after they lost the other day that Uday could have "whipped" them back into shape. Now it looks like they almost actually deserve it. These ungrateful turds ought to be practically worshipping the President.
can we get a defibulator on Uday?,, seems he had something there,, maybe these guys needed a little prodding afterall,,
An excellent ???...
it did come from Yahoo.
Now THAT'S a solution.
ahhh...wonder how things are today in the holey-ist of holeys?
Can you say INGRATES? "Oh man, this Athens food sure doesn't match up to the grog we got in prison the last time we lost. Remember when Achmed got thrown in the sewage, and mohammed got ground up in the shredder for losing that soccer match? Now those were the days!"
Still, the team's coach said the ad was inappropriate and that the team does not support the U.S. occupation of Iraq."
Well, these aren't pick-and-choose conditions, guys. You like not being beaten for failure? Having cleaner drinking water? Then "grin and bear it." Life sucks, you guys are getting a gravy-train just for being downtrodden. BTW, if the Fallujah types are pissed because we haven't built anything new for them, we could do a lot more of they'd just STOP SHOOTING AT OUR GUYS.
These men were brutalized, and they were also those who didn't did killed. They didn't get killed because they bonded with their torturer.
It is called Stockholm Syndrome, and probably a huge percentage of Iraqis have it after all those years.
The ones who would have been grateful are those that died before we got there, while we couldn't decide whether to shit or get off the pot.
Saddams still alive right? If they love him so much,give them all an island where they can come back losers and be mutilated and tortured!
Then after Saddam digs himself a mass grave to toss the soccer team in, bomb it and make another ad to be played in Iraq with a narrator saying sarcastically as footage of the torture and bombing are played.
"There, happy now?"
I think Yahoo picked it up from Sports Illustrated.
It sure illustrates what a bunch if ingrates we liberated.
As far as slapping a uniform on them an putting them to work in Najaf, I think they have shown by their statements they would quickly find a way into the mosque and join alSadr.
LOL, bingo!
They're still heroes to many Iraqis for even going to the Olympics. These guys are rock stars in their own country. Do they really dislike us THAT MUCH, that they'd throw it all away just because they don't like the *specific kind of people* that came over and freed them (non-Muslims, and worse, AMERICANS.)
Hey, maybe they're on "the drugs."
Salih Sadir - "The talented player from the southern city of Najaf, is one of Iraq’s most gifted individuals..." from an online sporting news. Send the SOB home to fight his own battles.
Exactly
It is disheartening to know that these Iraqi's feel this way about freedom from a tyranical dictator.
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