Iraqi Soccer Players Slam 'Criminal' Bush

The Scotsman.com

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By Mark Sage, PA News, in New York

Iraqi Soccer Players Slam 'Criminal' Bush

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Members of the Iraqi Olympic soccer team branded US President George Bush a ?criminal? and called for American troops to pull out of the war-torn country.

Speaking after winning their group stage at the Games in Greece, one player said he would take up arms against US troops in his country.

And the team attacked Mr Bush for running re-election campaign adverts featuring the Iraqi team.

?Iraq as a team does not want Mr Bush to use us for the presidential campaign,? said midfielder Salih Sadir.

?He can find another way to advertise himself.?

Sadir was angered at Mr Bush?s adverts, which show pictures of the Afghan and Iraqi flags with the words: ?At this Olympics there will be two more free nations ? and two fewer terrorist regimes.?

?We don?t wish for the presence of Americans in our country. We want them to go away,? said Sadir, 21, whose home town of Najaf has been battered by the war.

Another star player, Ahmed Manajid, 22, said of Mr Bush: ?How will he meet his god having slaughtered so many men and women??

?He has committed so many crimes.?

Manajid, from Fallujah, said he would be fighting US troops right now if he were not at the Olympics.

?I want to defend my home. If a stranger invades America and the people resist, does that mean they are terrorists?

?Everyone (in Fallujah) has been labelled a terrorist. These are all lies. Fallujah people are some of the best people in Iraq.?

In an interview with the US magazine Sports Illustrated, the team coach Adnan Hamad told of the ongoing violence in his homeland.

?My problems are not with the American people. They are with what America has done in Iraq: destroy everything.

?The American army has killed so many people in Iraq. What is freedom when I go to the stadium and there are shootings on the road??

The team was glad that Iraq?s former Olympic committee head Uday Hussein, who was responsible for the serial torture of Iraqi athletes, was no longer in power.

He was killed in a firefight with US forces after the invasion.

A spokesman for Mr Bush defended the war on Iraq and the campaign adverts.

?The ad simply talks about President Bush?s optimism and how democracy has triumphed over terror,? the spokesman said.

?Twenty-five million people in Iraq are free as a result of the actions of the coalition.?

The Iraqi soccer team has been one of the sensations of the Games, winning its group, despite a 2-1 defeat to Morocco in its latest game.

The team will go on to play Australia in the quarter finals on Sunday.

It's funny how the quotes turn into question marks and makes this such a true statment-question. Someimes the software knows a truth.

Let them take up arms and die like the dogs they are.

wicked football team. great match against portugal, im glad to see they have such a critical opinion. this is news to me, regardless i really admired them as footballers with such adversity and lack of formal training and war etc., glad that people around the world came together and bought them equipment and helped with transist.

stupid americans think they own us just because they come over to steal oil and rape our men and women. Beeyatch, we were already kicking your ass in soccer skills, you just kept Saddam in power to keep us from putting foot up your american soccer players a-holes.

Your goals are open like convenience store, U.S. punk beeaches.

Thats why your own media has to lie to you about Najaf and weapons of mass destruction because your too stupid and believe everything you see on television.

FREE IRAQ!

yes, most of our people are scared little mice in big SUVs.

"we were already kicking your ass in soccer skills"

Inasmuch as I suspect this must be a joke, suffice it say that there is NOTHING more noble that to NOT excel at soccer, a filthy gutter sport played by savages.

Anyway, kick on. I'm much more content with the fact that we categorically lead the world in the "carpet bombing back to the stoneage skills".

shitpile: "a filthy gutter sport played by savages"

....yes, Homeland Security better keep an eye on those diabolical girl soccer leagues......

If the Iraqi shitball team really said these lies, perhaps they'd like Uday Hussein back, ripping out their fingernails and raping their sisters and daughters.

leftists and their anti-american jyhad, please fuck off.

Gay Guy: "If the Iraqi shitball team really said these lies"

So let' see, it's a lie, they didn't really say it?

...or they did say it and they are lying....and those lies are?

Which is it?

...never mind, I would want to crack that soft boiled egg you are using for a head....

...say "pretty please?"