36 Replies to “Iraq 1 – Terror 0”

  3. So, tomorrow’s MSM headline for this picture should likely read: “IRAQIS FLEE FROM LATEST CIVIL UNREST. WHITE HOUSE: NO PLANS FOR AN IMMEDIATE WITHDRAWAL.

  5. Iraq 1 – Terror 0
    Hell,I didn’t even know the insurgents had a team!

  6. WOW, I guess it is Mission Accomplished all over again. This news certainly clears the slate of all the f*ckups and failures of Bush Administration.

  7. Zorpheous,
    After Saddam’s regime, footie players were routinely shot in the head and their wives raped by Uday Hussein for losing games. Perhaps you think that motivated the team. But we all know that freedom is the greatest motivator for good in this world.
    The reason why they call it the beautiful game is b/c on any given day – 12 guys can go out there and win even if they’re the clear underdogs. If you can’t feel good about this story, you truly have a heart of stone.

  8. “you truly have a heart of stone.”
    no, just face the cold hard stone of reality that at the end of the day the soccar game will not change a single thing in Iraq. Oh sure, for a few short hours people can forget the nightmare that is their lives, but in the end the nightmare returns. Sucks, but I’m sure Kate can find a story about an Iraqi kitten rescued from a tree.

  9. What is the nightmare, zorpheous? That the Iraqi people now have a constitution, a rule of law, an elected government – when before they had only the dictator Saddam and his thugs? What nightmare are you talking about?

  10. You know what Zorph?
    You have a problem.
    Deep inside you there is an inexplicable element of hatred so deep, so vile, that you actually cheer on the murderers and rapists of innocents because you think it serves your ideological and political objectives. If you weren’t the coward you are, you’d come right out and say it.
    There’s a special place in Hell for people like you.

  11. AMEN to that comment Kate! I have often thot the same thing but you said it beautifully.It made my heart feel good to see the coverage of this win! Maybe it’s a “small thing” to small minds,but I thot it a tremendous victory.Suck on that Zorph!

  13. You know, I’m becoming increasingly convinced that the left is afraid of freedom, not just the right. It would make sense – freedom implies the need to make decisions for themselves and take personal responsibility, something they pathologically seem incapable of. The cup is always half empty and the social cost of filling it up is beyond comprehension for them. Like the comment above, the Iraqi “nightmare” (cup half empty). If they didn’t have somebody to wipe their collective butts, they’d never leave the john.

  14. A nice story. But it hardly makes up for all those other days with scores like Terror 84, Iraq ; Terror 63, Iraq 0; Terror 125, Iraq 0, etc etc.

  15. …boy the leftoids are coming out of the woodwork.
    Next they’ll be saying the picture is Photoshopped because the Iraqi’s are smiling…

  16. “… leftoids are coming out of the woodwork”
    They’re warming up for the full moon tomorrow.

  17. Actually the full moon’s tonight and there are a few carloads of Iraqi soccer supporters partying it up at the corner of 8th & Preston here in Saskatoon. Good stuff. Cheers.

  18. “Long Live the Lions of the Two Rivers!!!”
    Al-Aash al-Iraq!
    Al-Aash al-Iraq!
    Al-Aash al-Iraq!
    (Long Live Iraq!)

  19. This victory transcends the strife in Iraq.
    No one claims the strife has been solved by a truly diverse Iraqi team effort in which the odds were enormously against them and the experts and talking heads assumed that failure was inevitable.
    It may be tough to believe here, but this team united Iraqis on and off the pitch.
    The team includes Shia, Sunni, and Kurds. And they have been led by a Brazilian with his whistle, his love for football, and his respect for football players and fans.
    This win is beautiful. The play through the tournament was gritty and unrelentingly optimistic. If an Iraqi believed, he believed in a team united for all Iraqis. The team’s effort — win, lose, or draw — was the biggest and most important victory given what they were up against in just fielding a team.
    Bringing home the cup is symbolic of that national spirit that cuts across all divisions.
    Iraqis can cheer about more than this one game on this one day. Next they prepare for their road to the World Cup.
    Nothing, nothing, nothing unites people the way that football does around the world.
    Celebrate that and be an Iraqi tonight.
    ————
    “At the moment our country is going through a rough time, so the only thing that is making them happy is sport in general not just football, so we need to give them a positive attitude and win to give them something to smile about,” Ahmed Menajed, Iraqi striker, said.
    “Our team is one big family. It’s the only family that is united in Iraq even though we come from different regions and backgrounds.”
    One of the bright young stars of Iraqi football is Hawar Mulla Mohammed, a Kurdish player in a team dominated by Arabs.
    Not only is he an important member of the Iraqi midfield but his continuing success is vital if the game is to flourish in his country.
    “First of all I am here to represent my country Iraq. There is no difference here between Kurds, Sunni and Shiite,” Hawar said.
    “I am proud to be a Kurd and Iraqi and I hope that I will continue to serve my country.
    “I have been with the national team for over six years, we are like brothers and I have always been treated the same. We are here to play for the same flag, the Iraqi flag”
    For coach Vieira, having his team united as one seemed as important on the field as it is off.
    “Yes, this is the most beautiful thing. As you say I have players from many different ethnic groups and this the most beautiful image for the Iraqi people,” Vieira said.
    “Here we have a family.”

  20. You know what Zorph?
    You have a problem.
    Deep inside you there is an inexplicable element of hatred so deep, so vile, that you actually cheer on the murderers and rapists of innocents because you think it serves your ideological and political objectives. If you weren’t the coward you are, you’d come right out and say it.
    There’s a special place in Hell for people like you.
    You need only look into a mirror Kate, and you will see all deep, vile hatred that is infecting your universe, and the only coward you will see is yourself. You and your little gang here constantly believe that Iraq is great place and making wonderful progress, what with all the freedom, elections, purple fingers, constitutions and laws. Face it Kate, a coward is a person who is afraid to face reality and the reality in Iraq is a nightmare created by Bush. Some how, just some how, I doubt that you or any of your readers will be taking their summer vacations in Iraq.
    ET, you just let me know how the water is along the Tirgis on your next vacation in Iraq, and then you can speak with authority about how great things are in Iraq.

  21. Iraq captain says he fears for his life, calls for US to leave country
    JAKARTA, Indonesia: Younis Mahmoud’s victory celebrations were tempered by reality.
    Mahmoud scored the winning goal in Iraq’s 1-0 Asian Cup final win over Saudi Arabia on Sunday, yet he feared for his life if he went home to celebrate the stunning victory, and said he would not be returning to the war-torn country.
    “I don’t want the Iraqi people to be angry with me,” he said. But, “If I go back with the team, anybody could kill me or try to hurt me.
    “One of my closest friends, they (the authorities) came to arrest him, and for one year neither me nor his family knew where he is.
    The Sunni Muslim Iraqi captain — who like the rest of the team wore a black arm band to remember the dozens killed by carbombers following the side’s semifinal victory over South Korea on Wednesday — said the American presence in his homeland was a “problem.”
    “I want America to go out,” he said. “Today, tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow, but out. I wish the American people didn’t invade Iraq and hopefully it will be over soon.”
    A first Asian Cup title has provided rare joy for people in Iraq amid continuing ethnic, religious and sectarian violence.
    The team’s players do not live in Iraq and work for clubs across the Middle East — Mahmoud works for Qatar club Al Gharafa and was leading scorer in the domestic league last season.
    http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/07/29/sports/AS-SPT-SOC-Iraq-Mahmoud.php

  22. Please, Kate, don’t turn this into another inane “You’re either with us or against us,” “Support the troops or support the enemies” line of argumentation. Choosing not to toe the line, noting instead the perversity (and temporality) of a unified celebration of a football tourney win in the midst of an otherwise fracturous war environment, hardly constitutes “cheering on the murderers and rapists of innocents.” The Iraqi football victory is an isolated feel-good story, nothing more.
    And all signs suggest the intersectarian good feelings won’t last, at least not in the current environment. Indeed, this Monday morning finds a return to the sad reality — a new car-bombing in Baghdad, almost 100 bodies found dead across Iraq, and the IAF bloc of Sunni parliamentarians still threatening to withdraw entirely from the primarily Shi’a al-Maliki government.

  23. Lenny, Smoke, stop cheering for the terrorist or else you will be share my spot in hell,… after all dealing with the reality and telling the truth about Iraq is a sin in SDA universe.

  25. “Zorph, I’m missing something, you’re saying life was better, before under Saddam?”
    The captain of the football team sure seems to be:
    “I wish the American people didn’t invade Iraq and hopefully it will be over soon.”

  26. The captain of the football team sure seems to be:
    “I wish the American people didn’t invade Iraq and hopefully it will be over soon.”
    …acknowledged and checking other sources.

  27. Tomax7,
    Are you trying to suggest that the current situation in Iraq is better than when Saddam was in power? To be honest Tom, it is a very hard call to make, after all dead is dead and it really doesn’t jack-sh*t who pulled the trigger.
    Terrorism now runs rampant in Iraq, militants are killing people, car bombs are going off daily, children are more likely to starve now, electricity is now available only about 6 hours per day, open three way civil war,… or Saddam,… Seriously you tell me, which is better.

  28. Fighting for a better future is better than cowering, defeated, with no hope for change. No contest.

  30. The Captain has an opinion about what is going on in his own country.
    Fortunately, he is free, now, to express himself while wearing 1) the Iraqui jersey, 2) the team captain’s armband, and 3) a black armband honouring the victims of terrorism.
    He basically said that he wished the war had not happened, not that he wished totalitarian rule in his country. He did not say that the unity of the country in this football victory eraises the strife in his country. If he could he would be Iraq now celebrating with his team-mates (Sunni, Shia, Kurds) and with his fellow citizens (Sunni, Shia, Kurds) in the streets.
    The US is allied with Iraqis in building toward the time when that sort of celebration will be secured against the threat of the bombers and terrorists who have ATTACKED the joyous people who did take to the streets to celeberate this week.
    How can someone take issue with THAT?

  31. The road to a better life will be a long one for many Iraqis.
    In many parts of the country they are better off already.We do not hear much about those peoples lives because bombings and killings are more sensational.
    I am glad that the Americans,Brits et al went into Iraq!Why? because any regime which can spawn Chemical Ali deserves to be put down.
    I have played soccer with Iraqis and their love for the beautiful game is the same as the rest of us.
    The emotional lift this gives that country is immense.

  32. Zorph: “Terrorism now runs rampant in Iraq, militants are killing people, car bombs are going off daily…”
    Umm, doesn’t that usually happen in a war zone, seeing we are not fighting a nationalized and distinguishable enemy, but one that hides behinds women and children and “Allah”.
    Akin to saying when Stalin was in power, how stable things were. Which is better, Russia today or back then?
    I’ve heard the same argument/logic with Yugoslavia, having Tito was better than today, at least that was one country.
    Callous to say, Lenin had a good point with logic like this – useful idiots.
    I rather have the US “screwing up” than a despot dictator with or without imaginary nukes.
    Is the US perfect? No. Is GWB God? No.
    But at least he’s on our side.
    Going back to the soccer captain, he’s entitled to his opinion and who knows what influence or Eurowinnie mentality he is influenced by.

  33. “car bombs are going off daily”
    Zorph
    I call bullshit.
    zorph, no bombs exploded on soccer victory day, That’s why CTV had to tell the ghouls how many died last Wednesday when they tried to rain on Iraqs Soccer Parade.
    Even then, Toronto had more die through violence last Saturday then Iraq’s scary Wednesday death toll they felt they had to temper the celebration with.
    Iraqi’s dancing in the streets, George Bush was right.

  34. Oh were is sad-damn when you need him and his people grinders?????
    please all you lefties line up while I search for your hero sad-damn

  35. Cowards love dictators – freedom is always painful, requires decisions and is constantly under attack, even from within after achieved.
    Iraq is a horrible mess, made worse by the go-it-alone strategy the US undertook, threatened even further by hostility towards Iran without more European military or political support. It probably compares to the Darfur situation, in that China is interested in Sudan’s oil, as the US coveted Iraq’s. And the local population bears the worst of it in a geo-political stuggle for resources. So much death.
    Unlike Darfur, progress seems to be happening – inevitably as with all things, when the timetable shortens and the situation becomes more desperate, efforts increase and the right things are finally being done. An Iraqi citizenry taking control of its own dominion.
    If Canada can survive, and thrive, despite our founding nations’ differences (First, French and Anglo) why can’t the Iraqis and their 3 dominant groups? They can, and just might pull it off.
    Although I still am totally against the US invasion to topple their former ally Saddam, I know the Islamic militants are still my enemy,and the US are our allies.
    For all you internet tough guys and your opinions about Iraq, try reading this, don’t worry it’s good summer material:
    How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization by Franklin Foer
    Then maybe you will understand why most readers here would rather sit down for a steak with Shane Doan, rather than share a table with Bloc MP Melo.

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