@ DUBBC415 and bayGIANTS : Iraq had to QUALIFY for the olympics. Iraq made the olympics by beating other middle-eastern teams (i forget). Each country are put into groups depending on each region they're from, and the winner of the groups go to the olympics, i.e. Iraq. Where I'm from, Iran, failed to win their olympic qualifying group, so they aint in the olympics. So, the war doesn't really mean shit if we are talking about how Iraq made it to the olympics. Plus, they beat Australia in the round of 8, so the Iraq team aint no joke either....