Iraqi soccer players to Bush, "Go to Hell, Already!"

Bush has been taking credit for the Iraqi olympic soccer team's success in both ads and stump speeches, and the Iraqi athletes are having none of it, according to SI.com. They have put it in no uncertain terms how they feel about it,
"piss off, already!!" Okay, they didn't say that exactly, but they could have.

It's been amusing to watch. It's almost as if Iraq is a 51st state. Americans and American media could care less about anyone's successes except their own, so the gushing enthusiam/pride for Iraq's soccer team is curious. NBC, showed Wednesday's game against Morocco live, I reapeat fucking LIVE. In a country where the World Cup comes and goes without much ado - except when Team USA is doing well - it is just bizzare. Where do these people get off? Nobody fucking cares about soccer. So this new found care must be because they think they are responsible for this shit, or more likely, it is a patrionizing and paternalistic posture.

I am glad the Iraqi team has spoken out, because the media has been happy to let Dubya bask in the team's glory. 25 million Iraqi may be so-called "free," as the Bushies argue, yet an estimated 10 000 Iraqis have died in this war, and Bush&Co are not interested in even counting them. All I can say is, there better be a god: I want justice.