Iraqi Soccer Team Angered at Bush's Olympic/Political Ads
Today, Sports Illustrated reported on the Iraqi's soccer team's anger towards Bush's new olympic/political ads, indicating that Bush's war on Iraq freed the soccer team to victory. How low can he go? Read the article yourself and tell me if this is the man to lead our country...the hypocrisy is blatanly embarrassing. www.si.com
Here is a blurb provided below...
Iraqi soccer players angered by Bush campaign ads featuring team
Posted: Thursday August 19, 2004 12:50PM; Updated: Thursday August 19, 2004 1:28PM
Nick Laham/Getty Images
PATRAS, Greece --
Iraqi midfielder Salih Sadir scored a goal here on Wednesday night, setting off a rousing celebration among the 1,500 Iraqi soccer supporters at Pampeloponnisiako Stadium. Though Iraq -- the surprise team of the Olympics -- would lose to Morocco 2-1, it hardly mattered as the Iraqis won Group D with a 2-1 record and now face Australia in the quarterfinals on Sunday.
Afterward, Sadir had a message for U.S. president George W. Bush, who is using the Iraqi Olympic team in his latest re-election campaign advertisements. In those spots, the flags of Iraq and Afghanistan appear as a narrator says, "At this Olympics there will be two more free nations -- and two fewer terrorist regimes." "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."
Ahmed Manajid, who played as a midfielder on Wednesday, had an even stronger response when asked about Bush's TV advertisement. "How will he meet his god having slaughtered so many men and women?" Manajid told me. "He has committed so many crimes."
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.
But they also find it offensive that Bush is using their team for his own gain when they do not support his administration's actions in Iraq. "My problems are not with the American people," says Iraqi soccer coach Adnan Hamad. "They are with what America has done in Iraq: destroy everything. 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?"
Further, a work colleague sent me the Newsweek article written December 20, 1990 on George Bush Sr's campaign to go to war with Iraq. The front cover reads or rather urges unconvincingly, "This Will Not Be Another Vietnam- A Plan for All Out War." Dig out the archived magazines and you will see how history repeats itself.
Bush Jr.'s Thinking: Hmm, now tell me again, who was responsible for the 9/11 attacks?? Oh, yea, I think his name was Osama Bin Laden...um, not Saddam Hussein. Totally two different countries. Totally two different names! Iraq vs Afghanistan. Oh oh, we can't find him. I'm tired of looking (for two months). Oh, brother...let's divert attention from that mess. Let's get easier bait. Let's go to war with Iraq...Maybe we can convince the people (they're stupid!), Hussein was responsible. And my dad really hated that guy after we partnered with him. Perfect plan...do we have a plan??! Ah, forget it. We'll just wing it and I'll look devisive. Ugh, there is controversy. Maybe I should have gotten a blow job instead. No, no, no. I believe in this quest; it's for the good of the people. For support, let's cut military salaries, insult the Navy and Vietnam Veterans, while we're at it. For Christ's sake (excuse me God, for I have sinned), let's shut down the press and get rid of the right to assembly. There can be NO disloyalty. Let's create false ads that have no bearing of dignified truth. Hell, let's bring down the house (pardon, me God, again). After all, Rome did not fall in a day…(did it? I don't know, since I don't even read the news…but, hey hey, I went YALE).
Johanna
posted by Only The Lonely @ 1:54 PM
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