Iraqi soccer players to Bush: Not so fast

President Bush would like to use the image of the successful Iraqi soccer team to endorse his campaign. In a Sports Illustrated article we discover that the soccer players have different ideas. While the Iraqi players are unanimously grateful to have Saddam gone, they are skeptical, to say the least, of the benevolence of George Bush:

Ahmed Manajid, who played as a midfielder on Wednesday, had an even stronger response when asked about Bush's TV advertisement. "How will he meet his god having slaughtered so many men and women?" Manajid told me. "He has committed so many crimes."

It is another compelling reminder that reality to Americans is much different than reality to Iraqis. US voters would do well to evaluate and balance both realities while casting their votes.