Next stop, Home Depot Center?
Iraq's national soccer team beat favorite Saudi Arabia 1-0 today to win the Asian Cup. No word on whether this win will make the Iraqi team attractive to David Beckham, taking Posh from the Woodland Hills TGI Friday's to a falafel stand in Baghdad...
However, one quote after the victory from Younis Mahmoud, who scored Iraq's goal:
"I want America to go out. Today, tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow, but out. I wish the American people didn't invade Iraq and, hopefully, it will be over soon."
How quickly he forgets how Uday Hussein tortured soccer players after losses or draws.
America, the Husseins...it doesn't make a difference who is making your life miserable...I don't blame him for for wanting the US out...
That's the irony of the U S invasion: It's cost thousands of U S lives, many more family lives disrupted for years, and yet the world thinks we're in this for oil or greed, because of who Bush and Cheney are, and going back to the Cold War.
Yet, average Americans have sacrificed billions and untold billions of dollars to supposedly "bring Democracy" to a place that will never have it and never wanted it: they will be split on ethnic lines, like the former Yugoslavia, Israel, Turkey/the Kurds, Greece, etc. Their ethnic rivalries go back too far for a nitwit like Bush, who never traveled outside America before being elected, to understand.
We need a leader with a GLOBAL perspective to BEGIN to regain world trust and a naional "vision."