Little Matty reports Bunnypants may attend Iraqi Olympic soccer game

[swag]

"PRESIDENT BUSH PLANS TRIP TO OLYMPICS, SOURCES TELL DRUDGE. MAY ATTEND IRAQI SOCCER GAME. 'TRIP BEING PLANNED IN SECRET'... SECURITY CONCERNS AND 'DISRUPTION' OF GAMES AT ISSUE... 'THE PRESIDENT WILL NOT GO, IF IT BECOMES TOO MUCH OF A DISTRACTION,' TOP SOURCE REVEALED LATE SATURDAY AFTERNOON... TOP BUSH SOURCE CAUTIONS PLANNING FOR TRIP IS BEING RESEARCHED AND IS IN PRELIMINARY STAGE. TRIP WOULD BE FOR FINALS AUG 28 ... DEVELOPING..."

[kentuck]

1. Maybe he'll make it there in time to see Dream Team lose gold medal ??

Or is he more concerned about Iraq perhaps winning a bronze in soccer??

[spanone]

2. Let him run Iraq. Give him the oil and make him King.

Just get him the hell out of the US.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

3. The Iraqi team should turn their backs in protest if he shows, and

let the other team score 100 goals. Or have everyone score an "own goal".

[kentuck]

8. Bush wouldn't show his face until the game was over....

and only then if Iraq were to win.. Otherwise, he would slip out under cover and come back home..

[realFedUp]

4. All important photo op....

Not sleet, nor snow, nor dark of night shall
deter the Bushmasters from getting their chimp
photoed....

It will make such a nice coffeetable book :-)

[slor]

5. Not gonna happen...

"The Boo heard 'round the World" would be the headline for every newspaper in existence.

[boobooday]

6. Too much of a distraction?

It might be, since the Iraqi soccer team hates him!

That could be very interesting. But I don't think the world wants him there.

Is somebody cooking up some plastic gyros?

[murielm99]

7. If drudge is not lying,

then * is insensitive, because he does not care what anyone thinks, including the Iraq soccer team. He is arrogant, thinking they probably just can't wait to be photographed with him.

Or, maybe he doesn't know they hate him? Like Nixon, his handlers keep him isolated, in ignorance of the hate he generates?

I hope he goes. I hope everyone boos him and snubs him.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

9. Er, I don't think this would be the real wise photo op... link

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

"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."

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But they also find it offensive that Bush is using Iraq for his own gain when they do not support his administration's actions. "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 stadium and there are shootings on the road?"

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"I want the violence and the war to go away from the city," says Sadir, 21. "We don't wish for the presence of Americans in our country. We want them to go away."

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.

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