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Congrats, Iraq

by John Cole|  August 12, 20042:30 pm| 12 Comments

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Iraq just shocked the soccer world and beat Portugal decisively, 4-2.

While sitting in the desert in 1991, I never would have guessed a decade later I would spend three hours rooting for the Iraqi soccer team.

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  1. 1.

    shark

    August 12, 2004 at 3:02 pm

    And thanks to Pres. Bush, if they lose in the next round, they don’t have to worry about Qusay torturing them.

    Think that little fact will be lost on the commentators?

  2. 2.

    Rick

    August 12, 2004 at 3:45 pm

    shark,

    Let’s see what ape, bloggerhead and oregonian (Moe, Shemp & Curley to me) have to say.

    Cordially…

  3. 3.

    Starshatterer

    August 12, 2004 at 3:59 pm

    The commentators (no byline) on ESPN noticed, down in the 8th paragraph.

  4. 4.

    Brian

    August 12, 2004 at 10:10 pm

    John,

    Great comment on your surprise that you would one day root for the Iraqi team. I felt the same exact way today.

  5. 5.

    Geoff Matthews

    August 13, 2004 at 12:58 am

    Iraq is kind of like the Lithuanian basketball team in ’92. Newly liberated, and apparently talented as well.
    But no Greatful Dead uniforms.

  6. 6.

    M. Scott Eiland

    August 13, 2004 at 2:42 am

    If the folks in charge of the Republican National Convention have any brains at all, they’re already preparing a presentation for the convention that looks a lot like this.

  7. 7.

    M. Scott Eiland

    August 13, 2004 at 2:44 am

    “Let’s see what ape, bloggerhead and oregonian (Moe, Shemp & Curley to me) have to say.”

    [sound of crickets]

    Looks like they’re in Simon & Garfunkel mode–“The Sound Of Silence.”

  8. 8.

    Adrian Spidle

    August 13, 2004 at 9:19 am

    John Kerry requests Purple Heart for Moqtada al Sadr

    Teheran Times ^ | 8/13/04 | Abu al Dimikrati

    Abu al Dimikrati reporting from Detroit USA for the TEHERAN TIMES

    Detroit USA (TT)

  9. 9.

    Bloggerhead

    August 13, 2004 at 11:40 am

    Sorry, guys, but I’ve just spent the last couple of days moving my girlfriend back in with her ex-husband…I know, I know, but it’s definitely in the best interest of two very good kids, and we didn’t need no stinkin’ judge.

    As for the Iraq victory, I only saw the highlights & haven’t yet started following this tournament, but ponder on this little bit of synchronicity. In the recently completed Euro2004, the champions, the Greeks–and the hosts of this Olympiad, interestingly enough–too defeated a favored Portugal in their first game of the tournament, and of course, in their last, the championship. If there’s an Iraq/Portugal final in these games, I’d bet the house on the Iraqis. (OK, not my house, the ex-husband’s.) Hey, stranger things have happened.

  10. 10.

    capt joe

    August 15, 2004 at 11:27 pm

    Well, I question the timing. ;)

  11. 11.

    Justin Ogren

    August 24, 2004 at 6:44 am

    You gonna watch em still John, after the Iraqi soccer teams’ comments on Bush and the occupation of Iraq?

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  1. Obsidian Wings says:
    August 12, 2004 at 7:38 pm

    Rare Sports Post

    (Crossposted to RedState) It has long been my general opinion that, no matter whatever path the United States of America takes in this crazy mixed-up world, we must infallibly do one thing: we must, never, ever, ever field a soccer*

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