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2005-06-30 Iraq-Jordan

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Posted by Seafarious 2005-06-30 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Strange could have reasoned with his attackers if he only had a soccer ball. Bossom buddies if he autographed it.

Posted by ed 2005-06-30 00:20|| 2005-06-30 00:20|| Front Page Top

#2 Gee, I hope he wasn't coach for the national team. It would be a shame to see him hang for war crimes....NOT! Bastid.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2005-06-30 01:04|| 2005-06-30 01:04|| Front Page Top

#3 and ponys and pocket liners and John Skerry war hero books.

Posted by little red dog 2005-06-30 01:17|| 2005-06-30 01:17|| Front Page Top

#4 What a squirrel. The whole wide world viewed through the lens of a fool. We could offer to drop him, on Berlin.

Posted by .com 2005-06-30 01:36|| 2005-06-30 01:36|| Front Page Top

#5 He would have been hired by that lunatic psychopath murder Uday who imprisoned and tortured members of losing soccer teams. He was almost certainly complicit, which makes his stated reason for leaving Iraq highly suspect.

Indeed, the former team Captain, who played under Herr Strange, has reported being brutally whipped and then tossed into a vat of human excrement to guarantee that the wounds would become infected, all because his play had displeased Saddam's Lion Cub. Link

Posted by phil_b 2005-06-30 03:50|| 2005-06-30 03:50|| Front Page Top

#6 Never underestimate the power of ~~soccer~~ football.

Posted by Howard UK 2005-06-30 04:25|| 2005-06-30 04:25|| Front Page Top

#7 If you have a war and no one shows up, then women and children get raped and the male population is slaughtered. But it's ok, cause the daisy's will grow tall above their graves and be blow'n in the wind.

Posted by 2b 2005-06-30 08:18|| 2005-06-30 08:18|| Front Page Top

#8 Wait, was he also behind the idea of dropping flowers or paper airplanes on the jihadis in Indonesia (I think it was)? If so, he fits right in with the Germans and probably will receive a medal from Schroeder any day now.

Posted by Bill Gates 2005-06-30 09:39|| 2005-06-30 09:39|| Front Page Top

#9 Oops, Bill Gates is me!

Posted by BA">BA 2005-06-30 09:39|| 2005-06-30 09:39|| Front Page Top

#10 Why footballs? Can't we get our hands on some f*cking origami cranes?

Posted by BH 2005-06-30 09:46|| 2005-06-30 09:46|| Front Page Top

#11 That's what I was gettin' at, BH! Thanks, haven't had coffee yet!

Posted by BA">BA 2005-06-30 09:53|| 2005-06-30 09:53|| Front Page Top

#12 Dropping cranes? Don't be so cynical. I think it's nice. In the spirit of goodwill, I say we drop some of these beautiful cranes over known jihadi homes in Iraq so that we can have peace. '>cranes, beautiful works of art

Posted by 2b 2005-06-30 10:09|| 2005-06-30 10:09|| Front Page Top

#13 2nd try
cranes of peace

Posted by 2b 2005-06-30 10:15|| 2005-06-30 10:15|| Front Page Top

#14 Soccer sucks.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2005-06-30 11:12|| 2005-06-30 11:12|| Front Page Top

#15 Mia Hamm: Yummy!

Posted by Matt 2005-06-30 11:54|| 2005-06-30 11:54|| Front Page Top

#16

I think it's nice. In the spirit of goodwill, I say we drop some of these beautiful cranes over known jihadi homes in Iraq so that we can have peace.

What sort of crane? Demoiselle or common?

Posted by Korora">Korora 2005-06-30 12:07|| http://basementburrow.blogspot.com]">[http://basementburrow.blogspot.com] 2005-06-30 12:07|| Front Page Top

#17 How 'bout one of these:

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2005-06-30 15:47|| 2005-06-30 15:47|| Front Page Top

#18 I like 2b's better...

Posted by tu3031 2005-06-30 15:48|| 2005-06-30 15:48|| Front Page Top

#19 Iff they had the NFL or Street football, neither Saddam nor any other despot would have lasted so long - in my day soccer was either a girls'-only game, or what boys played as a warmup to other sports or iff no other ball was available. Soccer = safe for Girls and thats why as per Politics and Geopolitics the Despots can and did take over.

Posted by JosephMendiola">JosephMendiola 2005-06-30 23:22|| n/a]">[n/a] 2005-06-30 23:22|| Front Page Top

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