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Originally posted by astroblade
i can understand what he's trying to say, and someday i might agree with him. but the fact is he wouldn't be in the olympics now if it weren't for the iraq war. and it's not like the amreican army's killing is unsolicited, they are after all fighting insurgents. it's like the man who they quoted wants the good, but not the bad. he wants the rewards, without the baggage.
Originally posted by dr_strangecraft
While am not a legal expert, I don't believe that the Iraqi soccer team would have any grounds to sue.
The commercial doesn't say they support bush. It says, as far as I can tell, that they wouldn't be at the olympics without US intervention in Iraq.
As sports celebrities, whose images are broadcast pretty wide, they have a pretty high bar for what constitutes libel.
You don't need an athlete's permission to publish their image of them performing on the field.
Finally, please join with me in pulling for the Iraq soccer team to get booted from Olympic play. Those ingrates in the midst of being the surprise success story in the games have started degrading our military our president and the war. In fact, one of these players says if he wasn�t playing soccer he would be an insurgent in Fallujah.
Originally posted by Indy
This is the same guy that pulled rescue workers off the pile at the WTC site so he could get on top and campaign like some kind of idiot.
Originally posted by James the Lesser
Wow, pulling the Iraq team for not liking the guy that is getting their people killed in larger numbers than Saddam. How dare they!
Originally posted by PistolPete
Originally posted by Indy
This is the same guy that pulled rescue workers off the pile at the WTC site so he could get on top and campaign like some kind of idiot.
I'm no Bush supporter, but this is just completely wrong. Those people were clamoring for him to speak to them, they needed to hear the President say something, anything to them. He didn't pull workers off the pile. He didn't plan to speak that day, Bush didn't want to speak. He had no speech prepared. Do you really think Bush would ever want to speak in public without something prepared for him? There's a pretty good description of these events in Bob Woodward's book, Bush at War.