That's discouraging to hear, I was rooting for them.
You have to remember that the Iraqi coaching staff, and those athletes that did well and were not tortured by Uday, would have been part of the Baathist elite. The U.S. destroyed their power over the rest of Iraqi society. Too bad.
Katarina Witt had a similar attitude after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
However, in her case, I would have volunteered to sympathize with her and comfort her over her loss. ;-)