Brazzil

no disrespect intended, but the world cup is over, and it's been over for brazil for more than a week.

Can we move on?

No more postings on Brasils World Cup loss...get a life!

Stories about your poverty, corruption, police murdering children, children murdering police...that is why you have lost the World's respect. Even the insane, mentally unbalanced why you think about soccer is pathetic. But let me give you a newsflash...no one gives a damn about you losing the world cup. Italy won, Brasil is thought of as Ghana, Italy or Japan is thought of simply just another loser of a big game that will be forgotten on Monday by all but the Italians, who have earned the right to celebrate a bit.

I guess NOW we will join the United States...

Only because of shallow "reasons".

Great to see an american preaching about "disrespect".

The hypocrites have no decency.

IMPEACH YOUR MASS MURDEROUS LEADERS and THEN come talking about "respect" f**king pathetic reactionary idiots.

THANK YOU, MR BUSH
by Paulo Coelho
http://www.warriorofthelight.com

Thank you, great leader George W. Bush.

Thank you for showing us the danger Saddam Hussein represents. Maybe some of us had forgotten that he used chemical weapons against his own people, against the Kurds, against the Iranians. Hussein is a bloodthirsty dictator, one of the clearest expressions of evil today.


Nevertheless, this is not the only reason why I thank you. In the first two months of 2003, you sir were able to show the world many important things, and for this you deserve my gratitude. So, remembering a poem that I learnt in my childhood, I want to say thank you.

Thank you for showing everybody that the Turkish people and their parliament are not for sale, not even for 26 billion dollars.

Thank you for revealing to the world the gaping abyss that exists between the decisions made by governors and the wishes of their people. For making it clear that neither José María Aznar nor Tony Blair care or have the slightest respect for the votes they received. Aznar is perfectly capable of ignoring 90% of the Spanish people who are against the war, and Blair is unmoved by the largest public demonstration to take place in England in the last 30 years.

Thank you because your perseverance forced Blair to go to Parliament with a fabricated dossier, written by a student 10 years ago, and present it as “convincing proof gathered by British intelligence”.

Thank you for allowing Colin Powell to make a fool of himself by showing the UN Security Council some photos which were challenged one week later by Hans Blix, the Chief Weapons Inspector in Iraq.

Thank you for adopting your current position, it made the French Foreign minister, Mr Dominique de Villepin, be greeted with sustained applause for his anti-war speech. This is something which, as far as I know, only ever happened once in the history of the UN, following a speech by Nelson Mandela.

Thank you too because, following all your efforts to support war, the Arab nations, usually divided, unanimously condemned any invasion during their Cairo meeting.

Thank you for your rhetoric, for by stating that ‘the UN has a chance to demonstrate its relevance’, you made even the most reluctant countries end up opposing any attack on Iraq.

Thank you for your foreign policy. It provoked the British Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jack Straw, to declare in the 21st century that ‘a war can have moral justifications’, thereby losing all his credibility.

Thank you for trying to divide Europe, which has been fighting for its unification; this was a warning that will not go unheeded.

Thank you for succeeding in what very few have managed to do this century: unite millions of people, from all continents, fighting for the same ideas, although these ideas oppose yours.

Thank you for making us feel again that, even though our words are not heard, they are at least uttered, and this will give us more strength in the future.

Thank you for ignoring us, for marginalizing all those who stood against you, for the future of the Earth belongs to the excluded.

Thank you because, without you sir, we would not have realized our ability to mobilize. This may not seem very useful at the moment, but it will no doubt be in future.

Now that there seems to be no way of silencing the drums of war, I would like to borrow the words of an ancient European king to an invader: “May your morning be beautiful, may the sun shine upon your soldiers’ armour, because during the afternoon I will defeat you”.

Thank you for allowing all of us, an army of anonymous people who have taken to the streets in an attempt to stop a process that is already underway to experience the feeling of impotence, to learn how to deal with it and to transform it. So enjoy your morning and whatever glory it may still bring you. Thank you! For you heard us and did not take us seriously. Rest assured that we heard you and will not forget your words.

Thank you, great leader George W. Bush.

Thank you very much.

SOURCE: by Brazilian author Paulo COELHO, http://www.paulocoelho.com
newsletters at http://www.warriorofthelight.com
(Translated by Lincoln Fernandes and revised by Mona Baker)

What a joke to consider that a lunatic like Paulo Coelho has anything important to say.

Coelho's oposition to the American President gives more credit to his administration.

Thank you, Paulo Coelho, for enhancing the image of President George W. Bush.

Since when a crook like Coelho understands about politic?

The guy who posted this article must believe in Coelho's stories of gnomos and alchimists as well.

What a joke!!!

Saddam Hussein, the mastermind and primary sponsor of the September 11 terrorist attacks (along with the conspiring liberals in our own great country), could elude the president's long arm of justice for only so long; now he trembles in his cell as his dwindling tribe of al-Qaeda terrorists panic in the last throes of their insurgency.

The wisdom of liberating and democratizing Iraq will go down in history as the single most successful (and ethical) military mission ever accomplished (and it WAS accomplished).

I have been following brasil since i was 8 yrs old. I love the selecao. I mean no disrespect to brasil. I only want the brasilian team to understand their duty to the people, most of whom are poor. Brasil had a moral duty to play their hearts out and if you lose then, there is no blame. As it is, Brasil played very mediocre and did not seem to care.

As for being an American, well that is true but I am also european. And I certainly DO NOT support the policies of the Bush Regime. The war in Iraq is nothing but war made by the corporate elites but like all wars fought by and paid for by the working classes.

Vive Liberty, egality and fratrenite...and the Selecao!

"Saddam Hussein, the mastermind and primary sponsor of the September 11 terrorist attacks (along with the conspiring liberals in our own great country), "
what a f**kin dumb you are, because of people like you we have this idiot still in a white house

paolo, understand your passion for the brazilian selecão, it's just that we've seen around 10-15 articles on this site about the brazilian team here lately.

Brazil lost, so did every other team besides Italy. People can't expect to win every world cup even if you have the best players on the planet on your team....that's sports. As far as the apparent lack-luster fashion in which they played and lost, well that's another issue, but it's been amply covered.

I think it's time for the moderators of this site to move on.

quote:

"I guess NOW we will join the United States...

Only because of shallow "reasons".

Great to see an american preaching about "disrespect".

The hypocrites have no decency.

IMPEACH YOUR MASS MURDEROUS LEADERS and THEN come talking about "respect" f**king pathetic reactionary idiots. "

Bud, at least the american leaders, although they may have their fair share of blame in many of the wars they've participated in, don't allow their own citizens and police force to mass murder one another. They don't have a "system" of impunity that exists for themselves.

If you're own goverment won't protects its citizens...who will? As the U.S. may have enemies in other parts of the world, brazil's biggest enemy is themselves and their own corrupt, murderous, politicians and police.

And about respect, once again, that's hilarious coming from a brazilian. At least the american people have respect for others that live in their country, in general. Brazilians have respect for no one or nothing. And that hits you in the face in one's first 24 hours in the country.

Saddam Hussein, the mastermind and primary sponsor of the September 11 terrorist attacks (along with the conspiring liberals in our own great country), could elude the president's long arm of justice for only so long; now he trembles in his cell as his dwindling tribe of al-Qaeda terrorists panic in the last throes of their insurgency.

The wisdom of liberating and democratizing Iraq will go down in history as the single most successful (and ethical) military mission ever accomplished (and it WAS accomplished).


Jesus, what a dumb f**king hillbilly.

Do you want to know who did 911, check these sites out
www.prisonplanet.com
or
www.rense.com

Countrymen ! start believing in what is said !
Stop playing football, as we lost the cup this time. Now there wont be any more wins for Brasil. We have forgotten how to play.

Lets start playing Cricket, baseball and hide and seek.

It is not that the Brazilians have forgotten to play,it is that the paychecks of their most capable players are signed by their European Masters ,not to mention future opportunities e.g Real Madrid,Arsenal etc,etc..As the Italians are upon them I suggest that the brazilians reach for the vaseline and assume the position.
Tsk! Tsk!...Still buying and selling these clowns even after some 500 or so years!!!..........I cry for you Brazil,then I laugh...because the only thing that is left as a South American accomplishment is Drug Traffiking.....and now even the Afghans are giving us a run for our money with that one.....

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