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2003-11-04 Iraq

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Posted by Super Hose 2003-11-04 2:05:42 PM|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11130 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 somebody's lobbying for a narrow special interest?

Cheers all around!!! What could be less Baathist, or less Islamist, then this? this guy is ready for democracy, American Style. Iraq needs a thousand guys like this.

Posted by liberalhawk 2003-11-4 2:09:16 PM|| 2003-11-4 2:09:16 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Think it through. This is a GOOD thing. Are the complaints about lack of power, food or medicine? Are they about midnight raids and law-abiding citizens dragged off, never to be seen again? Remember this is six months after the country was blitzed.

No, they're about sports. On a par with the whining in Boston.

GREAT news.

Posted by Mercutio 2003-11-4 2:26:08 PM|| 2003-11-4 2:26:08 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 He's German. He grew up with it, or at least has had a decade to get used to it.

He's also a whining snot; why not ASK people to help out? I'm sure some US soccer fans would be willing to kick in some cash to help out. Instead, he whines that the CPA isn't doing enough to subsidize a freaking sport while bombs are going off.

Posted by Robert Crawford 2003-11-4 2:28:29 PM|| [http://www.kloognome.com] 2003-11-4 2:28:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 U.S. Army delivers soccer balls to northern Iraq...they plan to hand out 11,000 in Kurd territory and 52,000 total in-country....

Posted by Seafarious 2003-11-4 2:56:34 PM|| 2003-11-4 2:56:34 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Millions for baseball, but not one penny for soccer!!

Posted by Dakotah 2003-11-4 3:13:24 PM|| 2003-11-4 3:13:24 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 US Army should help Iraq to build a decent national team as long it is for playing American football (ie the thing played at Superbowl). :-)

Posted by JFM 2003-11-4 3:14:17 PM|| 2003-11-4 3:14:17 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 US Army should help Iraq to build a decent national team as long it is for playing American football..

"Rasheed back, 7 step drop, pass to Ahmad is..... caught and he is dropped at the 36 yard line for gain of 8 on the play. 3rd and a long 3...."

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2003-11-4 3:20:23 PM|| 2003-11-4 3:20:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 It's all about the "GGGGGOOOOAAAAALLLL!!!"

Posted by snellenr 2003-11-4 3:26:04 PM|| 2003-11-4 3:26:04 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Okay, at first I was gonna lay into this coach as a whining opportunist but Liberalhawk and Mercutio are right. It would have been better if he complained to the Iraqi Governing council but he's got the right idea, make the authorities work for the people.

Oh, and Dakotah's comment was damn funny.

Posted by Yank 2003-11-4 3:48:15 PM|| 2003-11-4 3:48:15 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Everybody knows soccer is boring. Well, to everyone else anyway. I seem to be the only person I know who can actual follow it and not fall asleep.

Posted by Charles 2003-11-4 4:06:14 PM|| 2003-11-4 4:06:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 How can they call it Football when they don't use their hands?

Posted by Frank G 2003-11-4 5:03:33 PM|| 2003-11-4 5:03:33 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 LOL Frank!

One of the things that makes the beautiful game beautiful, is the fact that you only need one thing to play it - A BALL. And an opponent if possible. You need somthing to represent goalposts, but stones will suffice for that.

Brazil didn't get to be the greatest footballing nation on earth because it throws money at the sport, for freak's sake - it's for precisely the opposite reason.

It's good that this whingeing guy's complaints are unwittingly illlustrating the improving situation in Iraq, and I appreciate his dedication to the national team, but come on...!

Posted by Bulldog 2003-11-4 5:43:37 PM|| 2003-11-4 5:43:37 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 ! One of the things that makes the beautiful game beautiful, is the fact that you only need one thing to play it - A BALL....

Sheesh....... A ball..... hell, no bat no respect.

Posted by Shipman 2003-11-4 9:06:24 PM|| 2003-11-4 9:06:24 PM|| Front Page Top

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