Iraqi Olympians denounce 'criminal' Bush

Ireland On-line ^ | 8/20/2004

[razorbak]

Kinda like blacks attacking the party who ended their slavery and most strongly supported their civil rights and the end of segregation.

[Sam Cree]

I'm assuming that these guys are included in those Iraqis who want either a radical Muslim government, or else they are sympathetic to the Baath Party.

[SamAdams76]

Manajid, from Fallujah, said he would be fighting US troops right now if he were not at the Olympics.

Guess we know where his priorities are.

Seriously, I think the Iraqi people will never appreciate their freedom because they never had to fight for it themselves. I wonder how America would have turned out if France had "liberated" the Colonies from the English.

We do need to make our exit out of there soon and let the Iraqi people determine their own fate and I believe we are in the process of doing so. Not that I think the Iraqi war was a mistake. Removing Saddam was a necessary for U.S. security. Maybe after a few years, the Iraqis will come to appreciate a little more what we have done.

[AmericanChef]

If they want Saddam back, he's alive and insane over there now. Try to break him out and see what happens, Soccer Boy.

[ECM]

How about: go Paraguay!

[astounded]

This piece makes my blood boil. Those ungrateful sons of bitches deserve Uday back - then let them say those things. Nearly 1000 American service personnel have given their lives, with thousands maimed, and we have to hear this? The media should be ashamed for printing this, so the parents of our dead and wounded folks read it. I would love to see these soccer fags meet up with a few USMC riflemen and say these things to their faces. Better yet, I'd love to meet up with these raghead bastards to show them what I think. I am pissed.

[ken5050]

Not defending them, but put it in context..look at their ages..they were born and raised under Saddam's regime..they're most likely semi-iliterate..they've been brainwashed and conditioned since birth...it'll take time to re-educate the populace..

[BibChr]

Yes, well, they're not Mental Olympics medalists, are they?

How can you not read this and keep thinking, "Yeah, right; you did such a fine job ridding yourself of that world-class tyrant, didn't you? And you're glad your torturer Uday is gone -- say, how did that happen? Whose blood did that cost?"

"Ingrates" is too kind a word, IF this is accurate reporting.

Dan

[this_ol_patriot]

Not one more AMERICAN life for these damn rag heads, pack up and go home we can't bring back the Saddam sons but we sure can release Saddam and he'll make more. On the way out bomb the bastards forward into the stone age. Fuckers.

[areafiftyone]

Heck it will take decades to re-educate most of the Arab world. I guess one step at a time. And Bush has taken the first step. Thank god!

[Baseballguy]

With freedom you can speak your mind. If anyone here in the USA feels they are wronged they are allow to say. We are not a one man march.

I will always find it funny to hear people of other countries say they have a problem with the pres and not the people of the USA. The pres is the peoples choice. They have lots to learn and if you think its fun over there I would not think it will be solved for another 100 years. We as a nation are still gripping with the civil war and vietnam. It will never end. People always want thier view and screw everyone else.

[rmgatto]

I wonder how many have spoken in this way and how many are on the team.

[traumer]

http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/black-sheep/uday-hussein/ ******************* As he stood at the double-door entrance to the office of Iraqi National Olympic Committee president Uday Hussein, the boxer knew what awaited on the other side. He had just returned from a Gulf States competition, where he had been knocked out in the first round. Now it was time to pay the price. Inside the yellow-and-blue office, Uday, the older of Iraqi president Saddam Hussein's two sons, paced the floor, waving his expensive Cuban cigar and glaring out the floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking Baghdad. "He was yelling about how Iraq should not be embarrassed by its athletes," recalls Latif Yahia, employed for nearly five years as Uday's body double--he would stand in for Uday on occasions that were deemed a security threat--and one of his closest associates to have escaped to the West. "He kept saying, 'This is my Iraq. Embarrassing Iraq embarrasses me.'" With a wave of Uday's arm the manacled boxer was led into the room by Iraqi secret service. Sitting behind a dark wood desk beneath an oversized portrait of himself, Uday began his tirade. "In sport you can win or you can lose. I told you not to come home if you didn't win." His voice rising, he walked around the desk and gave the boxer a lesson. "This is how you box," he screamed as he threw a left and a right straight to the fighter's face. Blood dribbled from the athlete's nose as Uday launched another round of punches. Then, using the electric prod he was famous for carrying, Uday jolted the boxer in the chest. Blood was streaming from a cut above the boxer's eye when Uday ordered his guards to fetch a straight razor. The boxer cried out as Uday held the razor to his throat, and as he moved the blade to the fighter's forehead, Uday laughed. He then shaved the man's eyebrows, an insult to Muslim males. "Take him downstairs and finish the job," Uday screamed. Says Yahia, "They took him to the basement of the Olympic building. It has a 30cell prison where athletes--and anyone else who is out of favor with Uday--are beaten and tortured. That was the last I ever heard of that boxer."

[AngryJawa]

Screw these miserable ungrateful roaches.

If gratitude is the overarching goal of our actions in the ME, then we're barking up the wrong tree.

The majority of them will never, ever see things our way no matter how much time, effort, money, and blood we expend on their behalf. They subscribe to a cult which, by its very definition, warps reality, worships death, and seeks to spread into every corner of this planet by any means necessary. You can't reason with that - you can only kill it. Our men and women are, IMHO, over there fighting for the survival of our way of life, not theirs.

[Living Free in NH]

As I've said on other threads:

Instead of playing soccer, these a$$holes should be at home fighting and dying, if necessary.

Nothing pisses me off more that seeing these jerks playing a frigging game on one channels and then seeing reports of our great men dying on another channel. This is really ^%&@#! up!!!

Where the hell is Uday when you need him...

[Bringbackthedraft]

Two members on a team of about 20? Thats only 10%. Why condemn 100% of the team?

[M 91 u2 K]

Making a democracy in Iraq is a joke and it is not going to happen. This people dont understand democracy. The only reason I support the war in Iraq today is because it brings us closer to Iran which is the real source of the whole Islamic Revolution. From our new bases in Iraq we can launch a huge attack on Iran.

[snooker]

Speaking your mind is one thing. Being ungrateful is quite another. Maybe the Iraqis prefer to have Saddam back. I understand he is available.

[bad company]

Another star player, Ahmed Manajid, aged 22, said of Mr Bush: “How will he meet his god having slaughtered so many men and women? He has committed so many crimes.”

How will you stand before god and explain the cowardice that allowed Saddam Hussein to remain in power.

[RobFromGa]

Just remember we didn't remove Saddam and Uday and Quasay for the Iraqi people to gain their freedom except as a side effect. We did it because a free Iraq will pose a smaller threat to the United States in terms of collusion with people who want to kill us all. So, whether these idiots like it or not, we did what we had to do FOR OUR SECURITY.