The Newsweek infotainment weekly, their web site, ran a piece last week about the Iraqi soccer team, which beat Vietnam. Newsweek sportswriter Joe Cochran has decided that Iraq and Vietnam should make common cause against the imperialists:

“Both have hosted U.S. forces, and both have suffered mightily in the aftermath.”

No, we tried to free Vietnam but our own Congress stopped it. We have freed Iraq, and we want to help them strengthen their freedom. Joe Cochran is a ditz.

As my buddy Academic Elephant reports at RedState, team Iraq is playing Saudi Arabia for the title.

My my, Iraq actually winning something, even a soccer match, seems to get them down. But maybe they’re the ones in a “no-win” situation rather than the team, so let’s pity their long, glum faces, loosen up and cheer a little.

She also points to the International Herald Tribune, which calls for the return of Saddam Hussein:

And should they win, it will release another bout of mass revelry back home and possibly more deaths on the streets of Baghdad, Basra and elsewhere.

The implication, of course, is that Saddam could have stopped this. But he’s dead.

Go team Iraq!