I'd be curious to know what the others think, although I suspect most of them have the same sentiments.
Or, of they don't, leftist SI wouldn't print what they said.
After all, they had to rely on a subsititue player for their harshest quotes.
We invaded their Country, there's no getting around that, and we didn't do it primarily to liberate them, that was an immeasureably valuable byproduct that this guy doesn't seem swift enough to comprehend.
I supported the war, and continue to support the current effort to democratize. But the US wants the image of us as an invading force to fade, because it's counterproductive in the long run, and that's not at all how we want to be remembered. That's why we handed over sovereignty as quickly as we did. A lot of Iraqis just want the state of war to be eliminated, you can't blame them. You nor I would like to encounter open fire on our way to work on a regular basis.
I bet his fellow athletes are like we are here in the US, split. Some of us think Kerry is up to the task of being President, and the rest of us think kerry is a no-good, back-stabbing, lying, pusillanimous, weasel who glommed a PH for some rice in his ass, and is an all around candy-assed pantload.