GOOOOOOOOOOOOO AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!

Redtate.com ^ | 30 July 2007 | .cnI redruM

[.cnI redruM]

It wasn't on Ice, but it was a Miracle. Iraq 1- Saudi Arabia 0.

[McGavin999]

It was an incredible win and it will show the Iraqis that they can accomplish anything if they work together. The US will miss their best opportunity if they don’t capitalize on that and make sure that sentence is repeated every day in ads on TV, posters, repeated on radio and in conversation.

[domenad]

Very proud of them, but part of me thinks they should be building schools for their children and ensuring militias aren’t taking over their neighborhoods rather than kicking a stupid ball around.

[MondoQueen]

You wrote that it would be better to build schools than to kick a ball around.

Everything has its importance. It’s called a well-rounded life. Give them a break! They’ve had so many horrible years, can’t they just have one day where they win something?

[.cnI redruM]

And in 1980, a foreign investor could have watched a certain hockey game and remarked, “boy that would be a worthwhile country if they just did something about stagflation.” I’m just saying, you have to start somewhere.

[agere_contra]

This moment of shared victory did more towards building a cohesive, terror-resistant Iraq than a whole armoured brigade.

They should kick the “stupid ball” around some more.

[Hegewisch Dupa]

Amen - it’s a damn healthy thing for the country’s ‘tude, and the best use I’ve ever seen for the “sport.”

[ari-freedom]

everyone is talking about the possibility of civil war in Iraq. This is the kind of thing that unites the country

[WhiteGuy]

"but part of me thinks they should be building schools for their children and ensuring militias aren’t taking over their neighborhoods rather than kicking a stupid ball around."

your comment makes a point.........

young fit iraqi men, playing a game, while Americans fight for their freedom..........????

a diferent perspective?

[domenad]

You’re right of course. Like I said, it was a part of me. A larger part is absolutely stoked to hear that those raghead Saudis took it in the shorts from a country pockmarked with car bombs.

[Clam Digger]

All that training Uday made them do with concrete soccer balls after a loss must have paid off. /s

[ejonesie22]

Amen.

[FReepaholic]

...Very proud of them, but part of me thinks they should be building schools for their children and ensuring militias aren’t taking over their neighborhoods rather than kicking a stupid ball around....

You'll be happy to know that schools ARE being built and Iraqi's ARE ensuring militias aren't taking over their neighborhoods.

Lighten up.

[Teacher317]

your comment makes a point......... young fit iraqi men, playing a game, while Americans fight for their freedom..........???? a diferent perspective?

Of course you're right. Let's make the NFL, MLB, NBA, and NHL illegal this very moment. Let's abolish all college sports, too, since those draft-dodging weasels are only in college to avoid military service anyway. Anything else is an abdication of our national collective responsibility!!

(Do I really need the tag?)

[CHEE]

Good for the Iraq team. I do think a bit of remedial schooling is in order for those idiots that fire their gun into the air in celebration. This action result in several families having to celebrate a funeral of a loved one.

[sure_fine]

how many pulled their tops off to show their sport bra?

[Riodacat]

My guess is that it's more like the now defunct Yugoslavian basketball team (internationally regarded as second only to our team).
Nice, but it'll do nothing to keep the country together.

[.cnI redruM]

I guess all those Iraqi soccer players are just dead beats for not volunteering to use their feet as organic IED detectors.

Given your vast concerns on the matter, I’m amazed you haven’t signed up yourself and volunteered. You could set the example for all those recalcitrant Iraqi footballers and carry The White Dude’s Burden.

You seem condescending enough to look at it that way. A different perspective? Sheesh....

[Jim Noble]

All of Iraq is still not worth the bones of a single American soldier.

Kill our enemies whom we happen to find there - fine with me.

Spend a drop of American blood trying to make them into something they're not - obscene.

[.cnI redruM]

All fun and games as long as you have two oceans to hide behind and no one can hurt you. Those days ended in 1945.