Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose

Courtesy sfgate's excelent World View column, an article about the latest Bushite embarrasment. Seems Team Bush commissioned an Olympics tie-in campaign ad bragging, "At this Olympics, there will be two more free nations and two fewer terrorist regimes." They mean Afghanistan and Iraq, apparently. But they forgot to ask the Olympic atheletes in question. The Iraqi soccer team, which captured world attention by reaching the semifinals, loudly told anyone listening to include them out. "You cannot speak about a team that represents freedom. We do not have freedom in Iraq, we have an occupying force. This is one of our most miserable times," said an Iraqi soccer player.