If only in Iraq.......
As it is, Yemen is not taking part in the Asian Cup 2007; but I am, we are, over joyed with Iraq's continuing wins and amazing feat in the tournament. A few minutes ago, they beat - in style - the Vietnamese team; the poor Vietnamese were reduced to running around in circles by the very well organized Iraqis.
If only, back in Iraq: the politicians, the elders and the people of Iraq can have the same team and brotherly cooperation and relation - the joy, I feel, we feel, would be even much more. If the Iraqi soccer team can do it, can't the Iraqis too try to do the same? And share, give and take - in the same spirit that the Iraqi players have and are showing?
But then, there are so many 'ifs'; the biggest being - if only the United States of America did not commit one of the biggest blunders in its modern history, Iraq won't be the chaos, the anarchy and the madness that it is now. Which makes the Iraqi football team and its determination and conquests even more of a joy and gives much hope.
I, and many peace loving people around the World, do congratulate the Iraqi soccer team for qualifying for the semi finals of the Games. Iraqi's wins, is not only a celebration for soccer fans - but, the Iraqi football team has shown that Iraqis can work as a team and achieve, and move forward through a united, team spirit. For a change, there is some thing to celebrate about Iraq; there's some thing that lights up the heart about Iraq. And gives hope.
If only, back in Iraq: the politicians, the elders and the people of Iraq can have the same team and brotherly cooperation and relation - the joy, I feel, we feel, would be even much more. If the Iraqi soccer team can do it, can't the Iraqis too try to do the same? And share, give and take - in the same spirit that the Iraqi players have and are showing?
But then, there are so many 'ifs'; the biggest being - if only the United States of America did not commit one of the biggest blunders in its modern history, Iraq won't be the chaos, the anarchy and the madness that it is now. Which makes the Iraqi football team and its determination and conquests even more of a joy and gives much hope.
I, and many peace loving people around the World, do congratulate the Iraqi soccer team for qualifying for the semi finals of the Games. Iraqi's wins, is not only a celebration for soccer fans - but, the Iraqi football team has shown that Iraqis can work as a team and achieve, and move forward through a united, team spirit. For a change, there is some thing to celebrate about Iraq; there's some thing that lights up the heart about Iraq. And gives hope.
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Don't underestimate how far Iraq has come in the past four years, in spite of blunders by the Americans. And in some ways, it is better that the Americans make big mistakes. If they were rich, powerful and perfect in every way, then they really would be unbearable. As it is, they are human like the rest of us.
Don Cox - people in 'Italy, France and anywhere else' are not dying in thousands every month; they are not fleeing in thousands every month; and they are not living in terror and fear. Can you think of any where else on earth where there is so much extensive fear as in Iraq?
The issue here is not about dictatorships or tyrants; the issue, a very sad and tragic one indeed - is the way Iraq was invaded and the result of that invasion. America invaded Iraq against the feelings and reasonings of the UN and the 'International community'. Even Scott Ritter, an American and once the chief UN inspector for Iraq, was against it. Because there was no justification for America's action and it was illegal. Most Americans now, do believe that Bush and his gang made a huge mistake to have gone in to Iraq. If it was some 'rogue' state to have made that mistake, one can understand; but this was America - the 'leading' power and beacon of democracy in the World. I some times wonder: which is the leading rogue state in the World today?
I have not at all under estimated 'how far' Iraq has come: millions living outside as refugees; millions displaced inside; and all Iraqis inside Iraq have to bear the terror and madness brought against them. And to bear, the chaos and anarchy that is Iraq today.