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2004-08-25 Iraq-Jordan

Iraq's plucky soccer team loses chance for gold medal

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Posted by .com 2004-08-25 2:50:05 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "It was the will of God," said Iraqâs coach, Adnan Hamad.

Perhaps God was making a statement to INGRATES who give insulting interviews to "Sports Illustrated"?

Posted by BigEd 2004-08-25 12:03:43 PM|| 2004-08-25 12:03:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Perhaps God is making a statement about a team with at least one guy on it who wishes he too could be killing the soldiers who liberated him and who rid the world of that sadistic torturer Uday.

But according to them its just God's will. End of story. Of course they couldn't have done anything to deserve it. Who can figure out why God would deny good muslims a gold medal? "Beats us", sez all the muslims.

And there we have the problem......

Posted by peggy 2004-08-25 3:15:27 PM|| 2004-08-25 3:15:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 There is justice sometimes.

Mazaltov Israel!

Posted by peggy 2004-08-25 4:04:22 PM|| 2004-08-25 4:04:22 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 plucky is why i hate pete rose

Posted by Half 2004-08-25 5:07:54 PM|| 2004-08-25 5:07:54 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 peggy - God does let one slip thru now and then -- Iran won a gold in weightlifting today.

Posted by BigEd 2004-08-25 5:55:28 PM|| 2004-08-25 5:55:28 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Excellent. May they lose to Italy as well.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2004-08-25 7:02:02 PM|| [http://www.polipundit.com] 2004-08-25 7:02:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 I'm with you guys!
These Iraqis need to lighten way up on the fatalistic "if Allan wills it" and focus on what's real like GRATITUDE for being liberated from tyrannical evil and a sense of reality for who their true friends in the world are.
They wouldn't have been in the Olympics at all if it weren't for OIF as Iraq was suspended from competition for human rights abuses.

Posted by GreatestJeneration 2004-08-25 7:12:20 PM|| [http://www.greatestjeneration.com] 2004-08-25 7:12:20 PM|| Front Page Top

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