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| "We ain’t got game!": Iraqi students riot over GIs playing basketball |
| 2003-12-23 |
Students of an Iraqi university rioted on Monday, protesting the presence of US soldiers on the campus to play basketball. Our Pravda-envious pals over at Agence France Press strike again! (No need to employ our weapon of EFL because details of this are so "sketchy.") Notice how the Leftist media will cover every Iraqi who suffers from indigestion when they eat a U.S.-made can of Spam (like Saddam) and blame America first but will ignore important news like the peaceful anti-terror, pro-Coalition demonstrations that have been occurring with more and more frequency in liberated Iraq. In this case, it looks as if a couple of hundred young Iraqis got violent because they so clearly "ain’t got game." AFP doesn’t spell out anything specific that is anti-American, but the implications are there, not the least of which is that they decided that this was "news." Sounds like a simple case of Christmas pick-up to me and the Iraqis who "rioted" were just bitter because they couldn’t "join in any reindeer games." Ba’athists=Rudolph? |
| Posted by:Jennie Taliaferro |
| #12 Take these "students" and one by one, strap them to a goal net and let any GIs that know how to play hockey take one good shot... Another reason to blame Chretien for not sending any Canadian troops.... |
| Posted by: Pappy 2003-12-23 9:15:47 PM |
| #11 Shouldn't this have been an American university? Michigan State Univ isn't in session right now -- I was sorry to see that Googling "basketball riot iraq" actually brought up more stories about my old alma mater than Iraq. Sigh... |
| Posted by: snellenr 2003-12-23 5:36:33 PM |
| #10 There must be a mistake. Shouldn't this have been an American university? |
| Posted by: Highlander 2003-12-23 4:24:58 PM |
| #9 Here it is guys from the Hindustan Times: Iraqi students riot over US soldiers' presence on campus (Poor Fred. He thought he was fixing the link but he posted yesterday's of mine. Sorry, everyone!) |
| Posted by: Jennie Taliaferro 2003-12-23 12:40:39 PM |
| #8 Glenn--Thanks, that worked! I thought there'd be more, but this is pretty much the article in entirety here. |
| Posted by: Dar 2003-12-23 11:46:19 AM |
| #7 Dar#3: I couldn't find it in Yahoo news, either, but found it through them. Not to put past they'd pulled the story and re-used the URL. 'sok, the one you found was approximately as credible. And relevant. |
| Posted by: Glenn (not Reynolds) 2003-12-23 11:03:58 AM |
| #6 Found the link at Hindustan Times -- sounds much like the situation with the Egyptial foreign minister in Jerusalem yesterday. I'm angered by these students' presence in the university -- do we get to kick them out now? |
| Posted by: snellenr 2003-12-23 10:54:57 AM |
| #5 Are there ice rinks in Iraq? Take these "students" and one by one, strap them to a goal net and let any GIs that know how to play hockey take one good shot... |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2003-12-23 10:44:02 AM |
| #4 There are and always will be those Arabs that are offended that the sun rises but once over their land. F%$K EM! Some GI's are playing Basketball so they destroy their classrooms? Next they will complain how unsafe the campus is. Hooligans! Round em up and send them to the gulag. |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge (VRWC CA Chapter) 2003-12-23 10:40:22 AM |
| #3 Fred--The link now points to a Yahoo news article about Arafat. I looked but couldn't find the above article there. |
| Posted by: Dar 2003-12-23 10:39:11 AM |
| #2 I fixed it. Putting the anchor ("<a href") in the source line breaks things. The program adds in a second one. |
| Posted by: Fred 2003-12-23 10:16:30 AM |
| #1 Jennie--What's the URL to the story? |
| Posted by: Dar 2003-12-23 9:31:22 AM |