Iraq Victorious!

J.J. Jackson* | July 31, 2007

Filed Under Iraq

Failing to heed the advice of liberals to simply cut and run, the Iraqi national soccer team actually stuck around, fought and beat the Saudi Arabia team 1-0.

BAGHDAD — The players wore black armbands to remember the victims of a car bombing. The electricity went out, as usual, at the most exciting moments of the match. Baghdad was under a citywide curfew for fear of insurgent attacks on sports fans.

And all that was forgotten the instant the Iraqi national soccer team won its first Asian Cup championship Sunday in a fairytale 1-0 upset of heavily favored Saudi Arabia. As the Iraqi players wept and danced with joy on a soccer pitch in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta, their countrymen rejoiced at perhaps the rarest of Iraqi experiences: a happy ending.

Yes, proving once again, that when you don’t give up you can actually win!

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