but the Iraqi soccer team recently won a game that united the Sunni ,Shea's and Kurds.......why hasn't our major media picked up on this story. All we we is turmoil over there and everything WE are doing wrong there.
2007-07-29 04:52:07 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Typo: see instead of we.
2007-07-29 08:06:15 · update #1
I just posted a question addressing a question by an Iraqi citizen. I would appreciate it if you folks would answer him with words of encouragement. The folks there take their lives in their hands just to go shopping, something we take for granted. Maybe someday they can take it for granted without the worry of dying at the hands of insurgents.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AicFUtE0ToqHqd0CwYb.23_Y7BR.?qid=20070729082713AANopiz
To the answer above. Bush is not running to be re-elected. He can't. Two terms is all that is allowed by law here so your answer is really moot and pointless.
Perhaps Sadir would prefer to be on the Soccer team that was run by Saddams son. When they lost a game they were beaten, tortured and imprisoned. Were it not for Bush and the blood of American soldiers he would not be playing anything.
2007-07-29 05:19:24 · answer #1 · answered by ohbrother 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I've seen it on CNN many many times but didn't see this from Sports Ilustrated
PATRAS, Greece -- Iraqi midfielder Salih Sadir scored a goal here on Wednesday night, setting off a rousing celebration among the 1,500 Iraqi soccer supporters at Pampeloponnisiako Stadium. Though Iraq -- the surprise team of the Olympics -- would lose to Morocco 2-1, it hardly mattered as the Iraqis won Group D with a 2-1 record and now face Australia in the quarterfinals on Sunday.
Afterward, Sadir had a message for U.S. president George W. Bush, who is using the Iraqi Olympic team in his latest re-election campaign advertisements.
In those spots, the flags of Iraq and Afghanistan appear as a narrator says, "At this Olympics there will be two more free nations -- and two fewer terrorist regimes."
"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."
2007-07-29 12:09:21 · answer #2 · answered by Middleclassandnotquiet 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fooball is a violant sport which can't even be play without physical apparatus for body protection because it is so dangerous and crazy.... maybe if the mental health guidlines where enforced uniformly and without prejudice we could consider football an activity in which people intend to do harm to themselves and others and consequently institutionalize these freaks who promote the danger, profit obscenely from it and actually are stupid enough to engage in it..
2007-07-29 12:04:09 · answer #3 · answered by Donna Le Oiseau de Feu 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Soccer is for those who like it.
As far as crediting soccer with solving the problems that "we" cannot, has it occurred to you that this soccer game probably wouldn't have happened without whatever it is "we" are doing?
I didn't think it did.
2007-07-29 11:56:07 · answer #4 · answered by open4one 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
In America, soccer is more for the Hummer driving, cell phone yakking moms than for the kids.
2007-07-29 12:20:22 · answer #5 · answered by fsfa 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Things are coming together..but it doesn't make headlines...I would love to see more of the human interest stuff that helps people understand what we are fighting for!
2007-07-29 12:02:47 · answer #6 · answered by Erinyes 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
And American Football is just for ******* who won't play a real game like Rugby. For people who can't tackle without lots and lots of padding to stop them getting hurt.
2007-07-29 12:00:06 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 4⤋
i didn't know that Bush has now defined "winning" in Iraq as the Asia Cup final!!!!!
2007-07-29 11:57:27 · answer #8 · answered by nomames 4 · 1⤊ 5⤋