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Iraqi Soccer Team's Response to Bush Ad

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I was watching Bill Maher's show and I couldn't believe how the Iraqi soccer team reacted to Bush's ad that showed them. One guy said he would never thank a baby killer and another player went as far as to say he'd be joining the resistance if he weren't playing soccer. Throughout the Olympics they were portrayed as these guys who were grateful for their "freedom", but their response was different. These guys were tortured by Saddam's brothers, but in the end they hate Bush just the same. With the bombings and sanctions put on Iraq, how could we expect a different response?

I remember the part of Fahrenheit 9/11 when the marine said he would not go back to Iraq and kill other poor people. There was also the part where the mother was standing over rubble that was their home and how she cursed America for causing so much death. I never understood why the "liberal" media ignored the most powerful part of the movie, but I believe they ignored it because it was true. There is never an updated body count of innocent people who have died in Iraq. Since we're sheltered from the all the death and carnage we don't pay attention to its consequences. Imagine if your family was killed in bombing, would you be thankful?
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Reply #26 from PolMach Forums Top
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Ya, the book "Slaughter House V" talks about this being the worst bombing in history, which is still true.
Reply #27 from PolMach Forums Top
Iraq, before the war was a place that was full of brutality, I'll admit that. But Bush did more to hurt than help. He had no plan for the future and instead created a security drain htat has resulted in the loss of tens of thousands of innocents (maybe even hundred thousand by now). He based the war on false claims and now wants to take Iraq's oil to make up the cost. The fact is Iraqis didn't ask for this war and they shouldn't have to pay for it. Bush needs to move troops from Korea to Iraq quicky, focus on heavy training of Iraqi forces, pump a lot of money to fix the infrastructure and encourage investment and then get the hell out.
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Reply #28 from JoeUser Forums Top
Some Iraqis had asked for this war. They had asked for this war back after we pushed the Iraqi army out of Kuwait.
Do you feel Bush isn't focusing on training the Iraqi forces? Do you think he isn't pumping money into the infrastructure?
Do you think he wants to keep us there forever?
Reply #29 from PolMach Forums Top
Than again some Iraqis, mostly the Kurds, hate us because we abandoned them after Desert Storm, building them up for a supposed revolt against Saddam only to abandon them to the wrath of Saddam, because some in congress thought we did enough, and that we should only sanction Saddam, so a lot of Iraqis blame the U.S. for the deaths after Desert Storm because we left Saddam in power. Also, Saddam controlled what news was broadcasted in Iraq, so who knows what kind of excuses he used to cover his mass killings, and purges.

But Bush did more to hurt than help.

Um, Iraq was in the piss-bucket from U.N. Sanctions, which isn't funny how the whole corruption in the 'Oil for Food' program has not been in the news, guess some world leaders didn't want that to come out, that they were exploiting the Iraqi people along with Saddam. So, what more harm could ever be done, do you think Saddam was a kind and benevolent leader, can't see it that way, by the way how was he portrayed in the movie 9-11 by Michael Moore, do the Iraqi people approve of that image?

He based the war on false claims and now wants to take Iraq's oil to make up the cost

Um, if that was the case, oil prices would be going down, not up. Last time I checked Gasoline has not really gone down in price.

Bush needs to move troops from Korea to Iraq quicky

Great idea there, abandon South Korea, so Kim Jong IL has a reason to invade, would collapse the entire Foreign Dipolmacy structure of the U.S. if we did that.

Main problem with reconstruction in any country, is time. TIME TIME TIME TIME, you can't spend a couple of years reconstructing a nation, it's impossible. Hell look at history and tell me when we pulled U.S. personnel out of Germany and Japan after we had reconstructed their perspective societies?
I think most people believe we should be out of Iraq, etc. quicker, because as whole most people in the United States have become impatient, I don't know why, but more people I meet today are impatient, and want stuff NOW NOW NOW.

"Patience is the key to victory, impatience paves the road of defeat."