Holy Crap! Iraqi Soccer team SLAMS Bush! "He has committed so many crimes"

[jackstraw45]

The American corporate media is mostly ignoring this story:

Direct quotes from Iraqi Soccer team in today's LA Times:

"Iraq as a team does not want Mr. Bush to use us for the presidential campaign. He can find another way to advertise himself." - Salih Sadir, Iraqi Team Member

"How will (Bush) face his god after having slaughtered so many men and women? He has committed so many crimes." - Ahmed Manajid, Iraqi Team Member

Bush is "helping to destroy our country. We will never believe that Bush is with us." - Adnan Hamad Majeed, Coach, Iraqi Team

"Some of he players are very unhappy with this and said if they weren't in sports they would be fighting the Americans, like their relatives." - Samir Ganni, Organizer of caravans of Iraqi Olympic fans

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/politics/whitehouse/la-fg-iraqiteam24aug24,1,3820903.story?coll=la-news-politics-white_house

[calico1]

1. So.....

I suppose the possiblity tht they pose for a picture with the prez that he can use in an upcoming campaign ad is probably not looking too good?

:silly:

[Kagemusha]

2. Who needs them to pose

He'll just take their likenesses without permission. They owe him their 'freedom' after all.

[calico1]

10. Oh, right....I forgot.

Silly me. Shrubbie doesn't need any permission.

[Hoping4Change]

9. LOL.

[rocktivity]

3. The U.S. Olympic Committee isn't happy about the ad, either

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=765804

:headbang:
rocknation

[maveric]

4. As my RW, ex-MIL says,"Dont they realize that we are trying to help them?"

"These people are totally ungrateful for all that we are doing for them". Yeah,like bombing them and killing their children.

[KurtNYC]

6. Gonna take that messy oil off their hands too

[ihaveaquestion]

7. Wow, the ultimate Dejas-vu!

This is exactly what pro-war folks said about the Vietnamese for years! Scary!

[OneTwentyoNine]

5. Exactly why they killed SH sons and they need to keep him shut up...

US forces could have taken his two sons alive VERY easily. Trapped in a house will all utilities cut off and nothing going in and the boys would have surrendered within a day or two.

But like the soccer guys BushCo doesn't like talkers,he likes them dead. Thats why the SH trial will be a joke,they don't want him re-living his past associations and dealings with Republicans for all the World to see and hear.

[cspiguy]

8. what would YOU say if interviewed and had to go back to face haji?

I would have Saddam posters taped to my back.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

17. They spoke out in resistance to the occupation.

If they were frightened of resistance, they could have said nothing. They're much more likely to run into trouble from the puppet government we have so generously installed.

[jackstraw45]

18. Why do you think they were silenced yesterday?

No doubt threats to their families.

I bet it will be forced smiles from here on out.

Bush* is the ultimate evil-doer.

[jackstraw45]

11. Bush claims to be watching...such a dim-son

http://www.team4news.com/Global/story.asp?S=2210961

CRAWFORD, Texas President Bush has been spending time on his ranch near Crawford doing what many other Texans are doing -- watching the Olympics on T-V.
Bush today split his favorite parts of the Summer Games into two parts: foreign and domestic.

He says he liked -- the Iraqi soccer, plus seeing the Afghan woman carrying the flag going in.


____

Now, if you actually saw Bush answer the question, it's clear he's seen NONE of the olympics

I saw the video on Jimmy Kimmel. Here's the official trancript from the White House with the pauses added in:

Q Have you been watching them?

THE PRESIDENT: (pause) Oh, yes. Yes, it's been exciting.

Q Any particular moment stand out?

THE PRESIDENT: (pause) Particular moment? I like the (LONG PAUSE) -- let's see (ANOTHER LONG PAUSE)-- Iraqi soccer. (PAUSE) I liked seeing the Afghan woman carrying the flag, coming in. (ANOTHER LONG PAUSE) I loved our gymnasts. I've been watching the swimming. I've seen a lot, yes.

[jackstraw45]

12. Can't wait to hear about Freeper responses to these quotes

How can they still "cheer" for the Iraqi soccer team as Dim-Son claims to be doing?

We need to spread word of these quotes around. Definitely takes the shine off of Dumbyas Olympic ads.

[Mike Daniels]

13. Freeper justification for Iraqi soccer support

While there is some general "ungrateful bast*rds" and "too bad we killed Uday" comments most of them seem inclined to point out that only three people on the entire team of what (18-19?) have been quoted in the press (two players and the coach).

Hate to say it, but they may have a point on that last comment. I wouldn't take the words of 1/6th of a team (or any group for that matter) to equal the overall collective sentiment.

I also noticed that those who said they would have taken up arms had it not been for soccer still opted to go play vs. dropping off the team and staying behind. Independence would seem to take a back seat over some athletic championship in any case.

[jackstraw45]

14. On Monday the team was ordered (threatened) to be quiet....

according to the LA times article.

I'm sure their families back home were threatened.

"By Monday, Iraqi athletes apparently had been ordered to keep quiet about the controversy."

Ordered by whom? Certainly not their coach....

[stellanoir]

15. Their coach in fact said. . .

in reference to *'s two more free countries Olympic ad,

"the Iraqi people are not free, we are under occupation. This is one of the most miserable times."

Another player said, "If I wasn't a soccer player, I'd be an insurgent." He hailed from Falluja. Fun capital of Iraq.

Guess that was before Monday's gag order.

[A_Possum]

16. At least this finally made it out of Sports Illustrated

Good on Sports Illustrated for not pulling any punches. A regular "news" outlet probably wouldn't have dared to print the quotes.

Maybe the SI writers aren't worried about access to the White House.

[jackstraw45]

19. The Iraqi team lost today...so much for Dumbya's Gold Medal ad....

:kick:

[DeepModem Mom]

20. kick