Comments on Iraqis Celebrate Winning the 2007 Asia Cup

12 Comments on Iraqis Celebrate Winning the 2007 Asia Cup

Mike Dixon

“The victor belongs to the spoils.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
(–?William Learned Marcy (1786-1857))

I wonder who the Iraqi equivalent of Fitzgerald is/was?

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TSUMBRA

\”SHRINKing Hard Bill\”
http://www.ilovepoetry.com/viewpoem.asp?id=93757
Too much of the wrong type of stress? What is Hillary\’s most private response?

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beagle

sincere thanks for a powerful piece of film

I remember the day they won the Asian cup and the feeling of hope then, long since lost. It is the same feeling I get when I remember London in euphoria after the Olympic bid win and then waking up to 7 July bombs. Innocence swept aside by despair.

It was a good final against the saudis though, not bad for a team of sunnis, shia and kurds who just wanted to play football. That fact hasn’t changed.

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Mike Dixon

Ironic wording in the credits aside, do I sense something deeper here?

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1. Cowdozer
  
  I have a feeling that the peculiarity you pointed out was just an oversight in translation. I agree with the others here; this was a very strong piece.
  
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2. BaghdadBrian
  
  Hayder is/was Nabeel\’s brother. He was 19 when he died after receiving a gunshot wound to the stomach. He died on his way to the hospital. Many friends and family members of Alive in Baghdad\’s staff have been killed during the war, we try to remember them as we can.
  
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C-C

That was a strong piece. It’s nice to see what else is going on over there and to hear from “the man on the street”.

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jaime21985

*****

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nitro2k01

It\’s good, especially for the Americans I think, to see another picture of Iraq, where not everything is about terrorism and screaming religious fanatics. Simply normal people doing a normal thing, celebrating a win in a sport cup.
Of course, there IS terrorism, as was also shown in the video, and which is the reality for many people living in Iraq and other countries, but the point is that that\’s not the only side of the coin.

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JP

While it is nice to see the Iraqi people celebrating victory in a peaceful contest, I find it chilling to see some of these celebrations carried out by hefting automatic weapons and firing them into the air. I worry about a society where that is acceptable…

It is also telling that, just as I was noticing that none of the videos showed women, an Iraqi interviewee congratulated “all Iraqi citizens and Iraqi women,” keeping the two separate.

Liz: The Nazis killed 11 million people in their genocidal campaign. And that doesn’t include the 60+ million people they killed in making war. The American invasion of Iraq, misguided as it is, comes nowhere close to that and was not conducted for the purpose of genocide.

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strangefamilia

i cried !

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daveJay

That was an amazing video. It showed a side of iraq I\’ve never seen before. Very powerful.

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