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Monday, August 23, 2004

Iraqi Athletes: We Are Not Really Happy

The coach of the Iraqi soccer team said today,

"You cannot speak about a team that represents freedom. We do not have freedom in Iraq. We have an occupying force. This is one of our most miserable times."

Many Americans, including myself, were opposed to this illegal invasion of a sovereign nation which was no threat to America. We knew it was a very bad idea from the beginning. When will our president start listening to the Iraqis? Of course, the answer is NEVER. This is one of the primary reasons we need a regime change in America. We need a president who has ears and eyes and is willing to use them for the good of all people at home and abroad.

Coach Hamad said, "To be honest with you, even our happiness at winning is not happiness because we are worried about the problems in Iraq, all the daily problems that our people face back home, so to tell you the truth, we are not really happy."

To attempt to take credit for the well-being of the Iraqi people, when they are far from well off precisely because of the policies of the Bush administration is unconscionable.

I know- you are the choir and I am preaching to it! And, of course, the solution to our immediate dilemma is for the removal of this president in November.

posted by Peacegirl @ Monday, August 23, 2004  

1 Comments:

  • At August 25, 2004 at 1:12:00 AM EDT, Blogger Peacegirl said…

    Robert Scheer wrote this in the Los Angeles Times Tuesday:

    Bush pretends to be above the fray, all the while parading as a war commander and boasting, bizarrely, about his mythical achievements in the invasion of Iraq. That war, like Vietnam, has been a costly disaster since its inception. In an eerie echo of previous presidents who knowingly lied us into the Vietnam horror, always affirming that victory was "just around the corner," Bush's latest campaign ads prematurely declare Afghanistan and Iraq as the world's newest democracies. According to the implicit logic of one ad, the proof can be found in the fact that they both sent teams to the Olympics.

    Never mind that both countries are racked by insurgencies and warlordism and dependent on U.S. troops for what passes for security. Forget that both countries are under martial law and their leaders are unelected U.S. appointees. Cover your eyes to the fact that both countries are squalid economic basket cases, with the vast majority of the populace unemployed — or, in the case of Afghanistan, cultivating opium poppies. Ignore the facts. They're democracies because George W. Bush says so.

    But members of the very successful Iraqi Olympic soccer team beg to differ, blasting Bush's attempt to use their participation in the Games as justification for the U.S. occupation of their country.

     

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