Oh SNAP! Iraq soccer player slams Bush* for exploiting team in ad

[Proud2BAmurkin]

http://si.printthis.clickability.com/pt/cpt?action=cpt&title=SI.com+-+Writers+-+Wahl%3A+Iraqi+soccer+players+upset+about+Bush+campaign+ads+using+team+-+Thursday+August+19%2C+2004+1%3A24PM&expire=-1&urlID=11378495&fb=Y&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsportsillustrated.cnn.com%2F2004%2Folympics%2F2004%2Fwriters%2F08%2F19%2Firaq%2Findex.html%3Fcnn%3Dyes&partnerID=2356

In those spots, the flags of Iraq and Afghanistan appear as a narrator says, "At this Olympics there will be two more free nations -- and two fewer terrorist regimes."

"Iraq as a team does not want Mr. Bush to use us for the presidential campaign," Sadir told SI.com through a translator, speaking calmly and directly. "He can find another way to advertise himself."

[Cha]

1. Snap is right! I can't believe that..aren't they happy

bush set 'em free?!!

I went back and read the article..The Iraqi soccor player is telling like it is. Poor things..I didn't know bush bait was using them in his damn ads.

Gawd, I hope this gets National play!

[tom_paine]

5. National Play? Only in Free Countries...not nations like Imperial Amerika

Don't hold your breath waitring to see this on O'Reichley or AEI Schneider.

[southernleftylady]

2. great find! thanks for posting :) nt

[mediaman007]

3. Do we ever clean up our vehicles when they have been bombed?

Or are they left on the side of the road as art?

[Damn Hippie]

4. That's great that this is in SI

but I hope the sentiments of the team somehow reach an even wider American audience.

[yardwork]

10. Sports Illlustrated is a good place for this to appear

A lot of beer-guzzling couch-potato white guys read SI. (Apologies to any DUer who reads SI and doesn't fit this profile). What I'm trying to say is that a lot of SI readers are the same demographic that votes heavily for Bush - middle aged white men.

[ronnykmarshall]

6. Good for them !

Don't let yourselves be pawns of Bush.

[2Design]

7. these guys need to defect or BushCo will torture and kill them

back in Iraq....they maybe right now rounding up their family and relatives....for torture.....

[Cha]

13. Sorry, a dupe!

[Bluebear]

8. No the freepers have turned on them

Instead of rooting for them now, wanting to play the US anthem with theirs at the gold medal ceremony now they are insurgent towelheads again.

[yardwork]

9. Last I saw the freepers were saying to nuke them all

I don't recall ever seeing Iraq or any country in the middle east get any love over at FR.

[Bluebear]

11. The soccer team was big proof that Bush 'liberated' them

As per Bush's using them in an ad. Now they've turned on one of their big symbols of 'freedom'.

[Cha]

14. Just because they don't bow at the feet of bush

almighty? bush is so fucked!

[VOX]

12. This is great, and I have even more respect for the Iraq soccer team.

They are disconnecting themselves with * and the worst things he stands for.

This really took courage on their part, and I salute them for it.