Posted on 08/12/2004 4:29:25 PM PDT by Zyke
"It's mixed feelings," Zaki said. "People are dying, and here we are watching this. But we must continue to live."
(Excerpt) Read more at mercurynews.com ...
Amazing how well one can play when the pressure of being executed for a loss is taken away.
It would be cool if the Iraqi's played their anthem and the American anthem when they win a gold.
This is just great.
Thanks for showing it!
Another thread on this here on FR.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1190324/posts
Way to go Iraq!
Um...for those of us who absolutely refuse to sign up to newspaper sites (especially a liberal piece of toilet tissue like the Mercury News), can somebody post a longer excerpt? Or does somebody have a Mercury News login?
I have to admit, I'd love to see the Iraqis do well. The one fly in that ointment is if they wound up playing the US soccer team...and we won. Wonder what kind of soccer riots THAT would set off?
}:-)4
Kicks butt! But the British fans are left without somebody to brawl with:)
Wrong match-up:(
>> The one fly in that ointment is if they wound up playing the US soccer team...and we won.
We didn't make the Olympics (men's soccer), so it won't happen this go-around.
Not sure where this story is from, but you can go to the NBC olympic site. They have some stories there too.
http://www.nbcolympics.com/index.html
I didn't realize until I read the other thread that we don't have a team in the Olympics. So now I've found a soccer team to root for, for sure.
If Iraq could pull off a gold medal, it might be a stunner on the level of the 1980 USA men's hockey team at Lake Placid, mightn't it?
}:-)4
You don't need to worry about the Iraq-US match up. The US Soccer team didn't qualify for the Olympics, probably because football, not soccer, is the true American sport.
Soccer is a socialist European sport...Just Kidding. Someone will get mad at me for saying that.
Go Iraq.
I watched the game on TV....it was fun to watch freedom at work.
Yes. Or Iraq vs. France, Germany or Russia would be fine too:)
What channel are those games on?
No kidding!!!
It's Bush's Fault...It really is!
Excellent!
Plus it's just nice to know your family won't be executed at home, when you return, because you lost.
When Iraq beats France, I'll send the Iraqi government $100.
Gotta love that prospect.
Time for the Iraqi's to take back their country from the insurgents. It's up to them!
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