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Yes it is only one accused drug cheat critising another drug abuser in GWB

It is amazing all these American heros who are drug cheats and abusers. Makes you wonder how p!ss poor their athletes would be without resorting to drug cheating and their president may have even shown some signs of a small amount of inteligence if not for his drug abuse.

But

Regardless of anyones view of Carl Lewis the staments he made are not so easy to disregard. But then I suppose you and the like of yak do not give a sh!t about the opinion of the Iraqi athletes either.


Bush commercial angers Iraq's soccer Olympians



THESSALONIKI, Greece—Saying their "occupied" country should not be held up as a symbol of freedom, the coach and several players of Iraq's celebrated soccer team are furious over a campaign commercial for U.S. President George W. Bush.

In the commercial, the flags of Iraq and Afghanistan appear as a narrator says: "At this Olympics there will be two more free nations — and two fewer terrorist regimes."

Team coach Adnan Hamad told reporters yesterday: "We don't wish for the presence of the Americans in our country. We want them to go away ... You cannot speak about a team that represents freedom. We do not have freedom in Iraq, we have an occupying force."

Star player Ahmed Manajid asked: "How will (Bush) meet his god having slaughtered so many men and women? He has committed so many crimes."

Manajid said if he was not playing soccer "for sure" he would be home in Falluja — a hotbed of resistance to the U.S.-led occupation — fighting American soldiers.

A Bush spokesman said: "The ad simply talks about President Bush's optimism and how democracy has triumphed over terror. Twenty-five million people in Iraq are free as a result of the actions of the coalition."

REUTERS, BBC




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