Actually, that might have been an editorial. Here's a slice from the original piece:
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"Iraq as a team does not want Mr. Bush to use us for the presidential campaign," soccer player Salih Sadir told the website of Sports Illustrated magazine over the weekend, after demanding that U.S. troops get out of Iraq. "He can find another way to advertise himself."
His teammate Ahmed Manajid was equally forceful: "How will [Bush] face his god after having slaughtered so many men and women?" he asked. "He has committed so many crimes."
And after Iraq's defeat of Australia on Saturday, coach Adnan Hamad Majeed criticized Bush for "helping to destroy our country." He said that "we will never believe that Bush is with us."
Iraqi fans, too, are angry.
"A lot of people are very upset," Iraqi businessman Samir Ganni, who has been organizing caravans of fans to Iraq's games, said Monday. "These victories are not because of Bush but because of our efforts and hard work. Some of the players are very unhappy with this and said if they weren't in sports they would be fighting the Americans, like their relatives."
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--http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-ad21aug21,1,5553572.story
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