October 6, 2004

SURE YOU DON'T WANT TO TRY FOR RUGBY?

Baghdad looks ahead - to bid for the World Cup (Matt Scott, The Guardian, October 6th, 2004)

With suicide bombings, kidnappings and fighting in the streets, you would think Iraqis have enough to worry about. But sports officials in the troubled country are discussing a bid to host football's World Cup - and they are asking England for advice about how to go about it.

Preliminary talks have taken place between the Iraqi football association and its Jordanian counterpart about a joint attempt to stage football's showpiece tournament, Crown Prince Feisal al-Hussein of Jordan has revealed.

Germany will host the World Cup in 2006, after England's bid ended in abject defeat, and South Africa in 2010, so the next possible opportunity will be in 2014.

In a stunning reversal, Orrin Judd today claimed Iraq was a quagmire and called for an immediate withdrawal.

Posted by Peter Burnet at October 6, 2004 6:37 AM
Comments

The date would have to change (can't play in Iraq in July @110 deg. F), but why not?

"At long last, French and German warriors strode down the tarmac, taking their first steps on Iraqi soil".

"John F. Kerry, former US Presidential candidate, and current husband of Anna Nicole Smith, was unavailable for comment".

Posted by: jim hamlen at October 6, 2004 10:32 AM

"current husband of Anna Nicole Smith" Only if she wins (won?) the lawsuits that would enable her to keep her former (90 yr old) husband's billions.

Posted by: AWW at October 6, 2004 10:35 AM

Peter:

Slightly wrong. oj will be arguing the war was pointless and Saddam's regime would have imploded of its own accord. Meanwhile the USAF should have been nuking Tehran. :)

Posted by: M Ali Choudhury at October 6, 2004 10:54 AM

Actually, Anna is fighting for only about $300 million, so it would be a step down for Kerry.

Posted by: ratbert at October 6, 2004 12:49 PM

M Ali:

Well, that's right, isn't it ?

The main reason that the US care about either Iran or Iraq is because they can produce weapons which could hurt the US.

If Saddam had never possessed WMD, nor attempted to, would we have attacked this time ?
If Iraq wasn't trying to join the Nuclear Club, we could outwait the surely doomed Mullahs.

Posted by: Michael Herdegen at October 7, 2004 3:29 AM
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