Two views on the Iraqi soccer team

[Cocoa]

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/08/20040813-7.html

A couple of images I want to share with you and then I'll answer some questions. One -- just the image of the Iraqi soccer team playing in this Olympics. It's fantastic, isn't it? What a fantastic thought. Remember -- I don't know if you read the Sports Illustrated article about -- I think it was Uday, one of Saddam's thug sons who would torture Olympians because they weren't able to succeed. Here's a country now, battling for a country that is now free. It wouldn't have been free if the United States had not acted. (Applause.)




http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2004/olympics/2004/writers/08/19/iraq/index.html

Manajid, 22, who nearly scored his own goal with a driven header on Wednesday, hails from the city of Fallujah. He says coalition forces killed Manajid's cousin, Omar Jabbar al-Aziz, who was fighting as an insurgent, and several of his friends. In fact, Manajid says, if he were not playing soccer he would "for sure" be fighting as part of the resistance.

"I want to defend my home. If a stranger invades America and the people resist, does that mean they are terrorists?" Manajid says. "Everyone has been labeled a terrorist. These are all lies. Fallujah people are some of the best people in Iraq."

[wtmusic]

1. Y'know, in the long run...

it's possible Iraq will be better off.

IMO it's much more possible they would have been better in the long run with no invasion.

[Cocoa]

2. one thing there's no question about

Bush and the other warmongers don't care.

[DrWeird]

3. Were the Iraq olmypians ever really threatened with torture?

Or was that just more nazi propaganda?

[madrchsod]

4. yes

this was reported before all this shit happened.

[DrWeird]

5. Yeah, it was also reported that Saddam had WMDs.

And he was ready to use them.