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Target_For_Exterm Donating Member (540 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-17-06 07:07 PM
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3. WRT the Olympic Team - here's what happens to them now:
"In recent months, sports teams and officials have been targets in the ongoing violence engulfing Iraq. The taekwondo team members were kidnapped May 17 while driving across western Iraq after a competition in Jordan. Later that month, gunmen killed the coach of the national tennis team and two of his players in western Baghdad. The attackers in that incident reportedly were religious extremists angry that the men were wearing shorts.

And Thursday, the coach of the national wrestling team was shot dead in an apparent abduction attempt in Baghdad, forcing his team to pull out of a tournament in the United Arab Emirates."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/15/AR2006071500241.html

Yes, they're ever so much better off. :sarcasm:

And you might point out that Bush doesn't really have military experience either (since he went AWOL from the National Guard), so by the same rationale he's not qualified to make decisions about Iraq OR serve as Commander in Chief.

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