Iraq soccer bombing shreds hope for unity.
By on Jul 26th, 2007 at 11:18 am
Iraq soccer bombing shreds hope for unity.
A widespread love of soccer is “one of the few things that unite Iraqis across ethnic and religious lines,” seen in how “violence dropped to unusually low levels as Iraqis sat transfixed through the nail-biting match.” But barely two hours after the game ended, two suicide car bombs exploded “amid throngs that poured into Baghdad’s streets after the Iraqi national soccer team edged South Korea to reach its first Asian Cup final. Police said at least 50 people were killed and 135 were injured.”
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The BA will spin this as “Victory in Iraq”.
July 26th, 2007 at 11:21 amThe Surge is working?
July 26th, 2007 at 11:21 amThe Surge is working?
Comment by ∞Ω — July 26, 2007 @ 11:21 am
It’s too early to tell. How many more soccer tournaments are there between now and September?
July 26th, 2007 at 11:24 amhow very sad…
there are sick people everywhere…
…
not to be coarse, but if anyone has a link, or whatever,
that allow’s one to watch these matches,
rachel maddow is begging for that information… a huge fan…
g’day all…
July 26th, 2007 at 11:29 amThe suicidal Jihadist barbarians who blew up the car bombs are the very people that you fools would hand the country over too if we retreat.
July 26th, 2007 at 11:31 amThe suicidal Jihadist barbarians who blew up the car bombs are the very people that you fools would hand the country over too if we retreat.
Comment by Ringo — July 26, 2007 @ 11:31 am
And they killed 50 people yesterday despite our troops being there. So what difference does it make if we redeploy?
July 26th, 2007 at 11:37 am“Police said at least 50 people were killed and 135 were injured.â€
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Didn’t Michael Moore compare the “Iraqi resistance” to the Minutemen of the American Revolution?….He must be quite proud.
July 26th, 2007 at 11:37 amBombing for unitiy? The day soccer saved the world?
July 26th, 2007 at 11:38 amThe suicidal Jihadist barbarians who blew up the car bombs are the very people that you fools would hand the country over too if we retreat.
Comment by Ringo — July 26, 2007 @ 11:31 am
Yeah… great going, inviting all of those Jihadist barbarians over there. When the average Iraqi on the street says that things were better when they were ruled by Saddam Hussein, you know you’re screwed.
July 26th, 2007 at 11:38 amStrange. I have a curious feeling it’s the Pentagon behind these bombings. It has always been Bush policy to maintain a permanent presence in Iraq. That can’t happen if the country becomes stable. And a stable Iraq would most certainly fall under the influence of Iran. So, I see the dirty work of the CIA and the Pentagon in many of these bombings.
July 26th, 2007 at 11:38 amStrange. I have a curious feeling it’s the Pentagon behind these bombings.
Comment by david
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Yes, you are strange….sick, in fact.
July 26th, 2007 at 11:40 amHow convenient.
July 26th, 2007 at 11:42 amReagan compared the jihadists in Afghanistan to the revolutionaries, course that was when they were fighting the russians, but don’t let facts get in the way of your irrational hate Ringo
July 26th, 2007 at 11:42 amThe suicidal Jihadist barbarians who blew up the car bombs are the very people that you fools would hand the country over too if we retreat.
Comment by Ringo — July 26, 2007 @ 11:31 am
I can’t overemphasize my level of sincerity when I say that I think you are the dumbest person ever to post a comment on any blog.
You think that be withdrawing from Iraq, we’ll be handing our government over to the Iraqis or the terrorists? What a total freekin’ moron you are.
July 26th, 2007 at 11:42 amJoe Lieberman will say the soccer bombing proves that the surge is working.
July 26th, 2007 at 11:42 am# 5. I would much rather see the “suicidal jihadists” run the country, because it is their country to begin with, than to have the “maniacal theocratists” in the Bush Administration continue to Cheney up the country in the name of securing oil for BP and Exxon.
July 26th, 2007 at 11:43 amGeorge W. Bush, he’s reviving Saddam Hussein’s image for the history books.
Heckuva job.
-GSD
July 26th, 2007 at 11:44 amThe suicidal Jihadist barbarians who blew up the car bombs are the very people that you fools would hand the country over too if we retreat.
Comment by Ringo — July 26, 2007 @ 11:31 am
Yup, you got it that’s us. We’re all about supporting death, havoc, and destruction. Do you just hate people with differing opinions than you?
July 26th, 2007 at 11:44 amJingo sez:
Google “false flag”, jackass. Then come back here and try to convince us that Chimpy & Co. would never do such a thing. Good luck.
July 26th, 2007 at 11:44 amAnd a stable Iraq would most certainly fall under the influence of Iran. So, I see the dirty work of the CIA and the Pentagon in many of these bombings.
Comment by david — July 26, 2007 @ 11:38 am
I think you’re giving the administration way too much credit. What the Cheney Administration wants is a stable Iraq with an environment ripe for privatization of the oil sector. What they got is a civil war. Ooops!
July 26th, 2007 at 11:45 amDidn’t Michael Moore compare the “Iraqi resistance†to the Minutemen of the American Revolution?….He must be quite proud.
Comment by Ringo — July 26, 2007 @ 11:37 am
Stupid and consistent. No one wants foreign soldiers in their country. Not Americans, Not Iraqis, and not the people in Burkina-Faso. It’s called “human nature”.
This might surprise you, as you obviously haven’t taken a moment to think before you post.
July 26th, 2007 at 11:45 amThese bombing will continue until we are gone.
When we leave, an authoritarian Shiite leader will rise up and squash the Sunni like bugs. They’ll round them up and ship them to Anbar, pretty much the concentration camp syndrome. That’ll be the price of security, and the Shiia will be willing to pay it.
Heckuva job Dumbya!
July 26th, 2007 at 11:47 amYou think that be withdrawing from Iraq, we’ll be handing our government over to the Iraqis or the terrorists? What a total freekin’ moron you are.
Comment by Minister of Fact
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I was referring to Iraq not “our” country.
Idiot.
July 26th, 2007 at 11:49 am“Iraqi resistance†to the Minutemen of the American Revolution?….He must be quite proud.
Comment by Ringo
This wasn’t “Iraqi resistance”, this wasn’t aimed at American ‘occupiers’. This was sectarian, as in civil war.
July 26th, 2007 at 11:49 amThe suicidal Jihadist barbarians who blew up the car bombs are the very people that you fools would hand the country over too if we retreat.
Comment by Ringo
Because there is no relationship between suicide bombers and the presence of an occupying army, apparently.
Someone who has actually studied the motivations of suicide bombers over 25 years has determined that 95% of them are “nationalist insurgents with a secular, strategic goal: ousting the military forces of democratic countries from land the insurgents believe is theirs. ”
http://tinyurl.com/9ls2x
Take away the occupiers and the suicide bombings cease.
July 26th, 2007 at 11:50 amWhile this event underscores the facts around the failed surge, check this out:
The scale of the exodus of refugees fleeing violence in Iraq has prompted a “humanitarian crisis”, a conference in Jordan has heard.
More than two million Iraqis have left their war-ravaged homeland.
The UN says about 50,000 more people leave Iraq each month, mostly to Jordan and Syria which want international help to ease the burden on their services.
The UN refugee agency says the mass displacement is threatening the region’s stability.
It says the wave of displacement sparked by the war in Iraq is the biggest in the Middle East since 1948, when hundreds of thousands of Palestinians fled the newly created Israel…
[from: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6916791.stm ]
Iraqi Freedom? ReichWingNutBushBots? Anyone from the right? Anyone? [chirp... chirp... chirp...]
Oh, and just how many of those refugees have been allowed into the US? Disproportionate, you say? You bet it is!
ITMFAs NOW!!!
July 26th, 2007 at 11:51 amYou think that be withdrawing from Iraq, we’ll be handing our government over to the Iraqis or the terrorists? What a total freekin’ moron you are.
Comment by Minister of Fact
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I was referring to Iraq not “our†country.
Idiot.
Comment by Ringo — July 26, 2007 @ 11:49 am
I’m pretty sure Minister of Fact was referring to your (american) government of Iraq.
July 26th, 2007 at 11:51 amMaybe the Iraqis will wise up and start killing off the Saudis among them that are causing the AlQeada problem for them.
July 26th, 2007 at 11:52 amGood Lord, you people are truly sick.
July 26th, 2007 at 11:54 am#28 – Maybe the Iraqis will wise up and start killing off the Saudis among them that are causing the AlQeada problem for them.
Too bad King George is holding hands with the House of Saud. If the Toy King had been serious about “terrorism” he would have done something about his rich friend’s problem (al Qeada).
ReichWingNuts, got Osama? I thought now. Fools.
ITMFAs NOW!!!
July 26th, 2007 at 11:56 amYou are either with America or with George W. Bush and his law breaking, constitution shredding lackeys.
It is that simple.
-GSD
July 26th, 2007 at 11:58 amSomeone who has actually studied the motivations of suicide bombers over 25 years has determined that 95% of them are “nationalist insurgents with a secular, strategic goal: ousting the military forces of democratic countries from land the insurgents believe is theirs. â€
http://tinyurl.com/9ls2x
Take away the occupiers and the suicide bombings cease.
Comment by gummitch — July 26, 2007 @ 11:50 am
Oh, that’s too complicated for the wingnuts. They’d rather just blame it all on Islam.
July 26th, 2007 at 11:59 amYou think that be withdrawing from Iraq, we’ll be handing our government over to the Iraqis or the terrorists? What a total freekin’ moron you are.
Comment by Minister of Fact
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I was referring to Iraq not “our†country.
Idiot.
Comment by Ringo — July 26, 2007 @ 11:49 am
Did you ever consider that Iraq is not “ours” to “hand over”? Did you ever consider that the average Iraqi, after throwin flowers at our feet for “liberating” their country, might think that we are the terrorists?
Of course you didn’t ’cause you are a freekin’ moronic, neocon pig.
July 26th, 2007 at 12:01 pmCan we rig the Asian Cup to let them win? Maybe that will calm them down.
July 26th, 2007 at 12:02 pmGood Lord, you people are truly sick.
Comment by Ringo — July 26, 2007 @ 11:54 am
How so?
July 26th, 2007 at 12:04 pmJingo sez:
Keep up the denial, jackass. We wouldn’t want you to lose sleep.
July 26th, 2007 at 12:05 pmStop all of you!
Quit it all you. Calling people barbarians, extremists, and other objectable terms. As you sit here in America passing judgement cozy as can be have a little perspective. If you were in the middle of that bullshit because of the US(the world sees it as US and not only because of the current administration becuase of our history) you would have a different perspective of things.
July 26th, 2007 at 12:13 pmSo, I see the dirty work of the CIA and the Pentagon in many of these bombings.
Comment by david
I guess is pretty obvious. How come there are no bombing attempts directed to pipelines? No…just people.
I mean, Negroponte is in Iraq, it is like Charles Manson in a children party.
July 26th, 2007 at 12:15 pmStop all of you!
Quit it all you. Calling people barbarians, extremists, and other objectable terms. As you sit here in America passing judgement cozy as can be have a little perspective. If you were in the middle of that bullshit because of the US(the world sees it as US and not only because of the current administration becuase of our history) you would have a different perspective of things.
Comment by michael — July 26, 2007 @ 12:13 pm
And we would idolize the behavior as that of patriots. Morons…
July 26th, 2007 at 12:18 pm————
I think it’s safe to say that the one thing GWB has shredded around the world is HOPE.
R.I.P Hope
Murdered by GWB
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July 26th, 2007 at 12:21 pmIf the USA was occupied by a foreign country:
We would NEVER submit.
We would KILL collaborating citizens.
We would BOMB the infrastructure to hinder the occupiers.
We would do SUICIDE missions for the sake of our children’s future.
We would never give the occupier’s a moment’s peace until we drove them out, and after they are gone we would try and punish the collaborators.
HYPOCRISY is the reason that most Americans do not get that Iraqis are no different!
The Iraqi “patriots” know damn well that if the violence subsides, they will never be able to kick the Americans out, and Iraq will end up an American colony just like Puerto Rico!
July 26th, 2007 at 12:31 pmComment by criticalthinker — July 26, 2007 @ 12:31 pm
Well said, criticalthinker. And undeniable.
July 26th, 2007 at 12:32 pmBAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraqis, brought together in a rare moment of unity by their soccer team’s success in the Asian Cup, said defiantly on Thursday that bombs would not deter them from supporting their country in Sunday’s final.
Thousands of them poured onto the streets after Iraq beat South Korea on Wednesday to reach the Asian Cup final for the first time, but suicide bombings that killed 50 people in Baghdad cast a pall over their jubilation.
The bombings were a sharp reminder of Iraq’s unrelenting cycle of sectarian violence between majority Shi’ites and minority Sunni Arabs.
But many fans, though war-weary, said they would not be cowed and would turn out to support their team in the same fashion when Iraq meet Saudi Arabia on Sunday.
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Go Iraqis!!!
The US is on your side.
President Bush will see to it that you become a free democratic nation!!!
Ignore our TP moonbats here.
July 26th, 2007 at 12:37 pmSo which unbiased news source created the headline for this thread, or was it a TP exclusive?
The victims consisted of all the religious and ethnic groups in Iraq, the bomber didnt care who he killed and managed to get a few of each.
What a crass, made-up headline, as if the person who wrote it decided they knew how Iraqis would react to such a crime.
July 26th, 2007 at 12:46 pmPresident Bush will see to it that you become a free democratic nation!!!
Comment by FLACO
Perhaps in 2 or 3 more carpet bombings.
July 26th, 2007 at 12:50 pmIf the USA was occupied by a foreign country:
We would NEVER submit.
We would KILL collaborating citizens.
We would BOMB the infrastructure to hinder the occupiers.
We would do SUICIDE missions for the sake of our children’s future.
Comment by criticalthinker — July 26, 2007 @ 12:31 pm
Wolveriiiiiiines!
(I wonder what the Iraqi name for Patrick Swayze is)
July 26th, 2007 at 1:10 pm>President Bush will see to it that you become a free democratic nation!!!
How is democracy in palestine working out for you? You approve?
>The suicidal Jihadist barbarians who blew up the car bombs
> are the very people that you fools would hand the country
> over too if we retreat.
A) What group or groups do you think these car bombers are from?
B) If we leave, which group or groups do you think are going to take over?
July 26th, 2007 at 1:13 pmI’ll give you a hint.. do you know who makes up the majority of the country? ..Shia do….they are the ones who are going to take over (even more)..when we are gone.. you think the Shia blew up the soccer crowd?
>But many fans, though war-weary, said they would not be cowed
Another subjective pessimist v. optimistic take on the same event… in other words, is the street half-filled with body parts, or merely half empty of life?
July 26th, 2007 at 1:15 pmWell at lease the Iraq Government can read about it as they are on vacation and out of danger. The Iraq people need a leader who will Dictate to all groups and that new Leader should be George W. Bush with is criminal side kick Dick Cheney. If it wasn’t for the international news Americans would think things are going great in Iraq. All the media stations give a bright out look to what the White House tells them to say. It’s so safe it’s like an American Mall. Yet with the pictures of the dead and the GOP visitors wearing bullet proof vest with hundreds of guards I wonder how many people in America shop with that type of protection.
July 26th, 2007 at 1:22 pmIf the USA was occupied by a foreign country:
We would NEVER submit.
We would KILL collaborating citizens.
We would BOMB the infrastructure to hinder the occupiers.
We would do SUICIDE missions for the sake of our children’s future.
Comment by criticalthinker — July 26, 2007 @ 12:31 pm
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So I take it from your comments that you support the “1nsurgents” that carried out this bombing which killed 50 people? I suppose that I can also assume that you support the Taliban insurection in Afghanistan as well.
Is there no bottom to the depths that Bush hatred will drag the Left?
July 26th, 2007 at 1:23 pm>Is there no bottom to the depths that Bush hatred will drag the Left?
He’s merely pointing out, moron, that if this country were invaded, you’d be calling anyone that cooperated with the invading force “traitors” and I’m sure you’d be advocating violent revolt against them. (although I doubt, you, like most right wingers, would have the balls do much about it)
Whats hes saying is he can understand why these extremists do what they do..
Just because you say you understand why someone does something, doesnt necessarily equate to support…
Another shade of grey in your black and white, “yes” or “no” world of Bush style simplicity.. sorry to complicate your life with nuance…
July 26th, 2007 at 1:28 pmComment by Chocolat Jesus God Help Us into uranUs — July 26, 2007 @ 1:28 pm
Nuance…
Now there’s a word you never hear a troll use.
July 26th, 2007 at 1:51 pmMaybe we could send Beckham and Posh over there to calm things down?
July 26th, 2007 at 4:44 pmOff topic. This is a story that every American must see.
July 27th, 2007 at 12:59 amhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/26/AR2007072602025.html
Was Pat Tillman murdered?
July 27th, 2007 at 2:15 amWhy the three bullet holes in the forehead?
Why were his clothes and other personal items burned?
ffffff
July 27th, 2007 at 5:51 pmbold
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July 27th, 2007 at 5:52 pmTVU has the game on live feed on the Star Sports channel, good luck. Look forward to it myself. Cheering for my homies in Iraq !
July 29th, 2007 at 8:27 am