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Saturday, August 21, 2004
“Iraq as a team does not want Mr. Bush to use us for the presidential campaign”
So says Iraqi soccer midfielder Salih Sadir. Apparently, a new Bush commercial shows both the flags of Iraq and Afghanistan while the voiceover reports: “At this Olympics there will be two more free nations—and two fewer terrorist regimes.” (I personally have not seen the ad.)
Sadir contues to say, "I want the violence and the war to go away from the city. We don't wish for the presence of Americans in our country. We want them to go away."
Another Iraqi player is quoted as saying, “How will (Bush) meet his God having slaughtered so many men and women? He has committed so many crimes.”
While Bush commented in Oregon, "The image of the Iraqi soccer team playing in this Olympics, it's fantastic, isn't it? It wouldn't have been free if the United States had not acted,' one of the Iraqi soccer players said that if he were not playing soccer, he would "for sure" be fighting as part of the resistance. Interesting juxtaposition of ideas, don't you think?
So says Iraqi soccer midfielder Salih Sadir. Apparently, a new Bush commercial shows both the flags of Iraq and Afghanistan while the voiceover reports: “At this Olympics there will be two more free nations—and two fewer terrorist regimes.” (I personally have not seen the ad.)
Sadir contues to say, "I want the violence and the war to go away from the city. We don't wish for the presence of Americans in our country. We want them to go away."
Another Iraqi player is quoted as saying, “How will (Bush) meet his God having slaughtered so many men and women? He has committed so many crimes.”
While Bush commented in Oregon, "The image of the Iraqi soccer team playing in this Olympics, it's fantastic, isn't it? It wouldn't have been free if the United States had not acted,' one of the Iraqi soccer players said that if he were not playing soccer, he would "for sure" be fighting as part of the resistance. Interesting juxtaposition of ideas, don't you think?
