Official: I support the Iraqi Shoe Thrower thread

[Tom Nissalke]

If I could throw my shoes at "president" George W. Bush, I would.

He is responsible for the deaths of over 4,000 American troops, 5,000 American contractors and ancillary employees and over 100,000 Iraq civilians.

God Bless the Shoe Thrower!!!!

:ihit

[lefty]

Fuck yeah !!!!

[balli]

:lol :tu

[jn77]

So much fungus in my shoes it would be a biological attack!!

[DarrinS]

If Hussein Obama has the same foreign policy, will you want to throw shoes at him too?

[MannyIsGod]

Meh

[MannyIsGod]

If Hussein Obama has the same foreign policy, will you want to throw shoes at him too?

Obama is going to invade Iraq again?

[smeagol]

That was a stupid thing to do.

[MaNuMaNiAc]

That was a stupid thing to do.

what? throwing the shoes? or actually missing? :lol

Seriously though, what exactly did he hope to accomplish? Granted, the world found out someone threw a shoe at Bush, but honestly, at this point, who really gives a rats ass? Bush is already a complete failure

[byrontx]

:lol Too bad he didn't connect.

[DisAsTerBot]

i'd like to see him throw those shoes at saddam...

[Yonivore]

i'd like to see him throw those shoes at saddam...

Or, at Obama. I wonder if he would have survived the Obamaniac onslaught that would have surely ensued.

[DarkReign]

Or, at Obama. I wonder if he would have survived the Obamaniac onslaught that would have surely ensued.

What, via the internet? What are they going to do, spam his email box?

[MaNuMaNiAc]

What, via the internet? What are they going to do, spam his email box?

At least!

[Anti.Hero]

The real question is how did the actual shoes get passed room security.

[DarkReign]

The real question is how did the actual shoes get passed room security.

Laced with sarcasm, I presume.

IMO, Bush wasnt threatened because he knows everyone in that room were searched just short of an anal probe.

No matter what was going to come at him, in any of those press meet-and-greets in Iraq, it certainly wouldnt be lethal.

Still, the President is quick with the bob-and-weave.

[8ft.tall.tejano]

Still, the President is quick with the bob-and-weave.


yeah he looked pretty jumpy...must be back on coke.......

[cool hand]

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[exstatic]

Laced with sarcasm, I presume.

IMO, Bush wasnt threatened because he knows everyone in that room were searched just short of an anal probe.

No matter what was going to come at him, in any of those press meet-and-greets in Iraq, it certainly wouldnt be lethal.

Still, the President is quick with the bob-and-weave.

Letterman's take was priceless. :lol

[Nbadan]

I'm gonna miss this shit.....can't we keep him around 4 more years for just the laughs?

:lol

[Yonivore]

When an American politician gets into trouble, conservatives like to play the game, "name that party." This is a reference to the fact that if the politician is a Republican, leftist news outlets like the Washington Post will make that fact clear in the first paragraph, whereas if he or she is a Democrat, this news probably won't appear until much later in the piece. You libs on here should try this exercise sometime. You'd be amazed.

In the case of Muntadar al-Zaidi, the shoe throwing Iraqi journalist, we can play a variant of the same game -- name the sect. For as all readers of organs like the Post know, sect (Sunni or Shiite) is everything in Iraq. It was the Bush administration's alleged inability to grasp this core reality that, according to the MSM's narrative, led us to bring Iraq to the brink of disaster in 2005-2006.

Thus, it seems highly relevant to ask: what sect does Muntadar al-Zaidi belong to?

Unfortunately, the Wasington Post (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/15/AR2008121500161.html), in today's story about the shoe tosser -- "Flying Shoes Create a Hero In Arab World" -- provides no answer. The story is full of facts about Zaidi. The mistreatment of prisons at Abu Ghraib angered him; he is unmarried; he was the head of the "student union" in college; he is against the recently signed U.S. - Iraq security agreement. But Post reporter Sudarsan Raghavan has no intention of informing us where Zaidi stands in the Iraqi sectarian/political spectrum that brought Iraq to the verge of civil war not long ago.

This is not an oversight. Raghavan plainly does not want us to diminish Zaidi by locating him in the vicious, partisan world of Iraqi politics. He wants instead that we see Zaidi as an Iraqi patriot or, even better, an Arab hero.

To this end, Raghavan informs us that "thousands of Iraqis demonstrated in the streets demanding [Zaidi's] release from Iraqi custody." The use of the marginally informative word "thousands" to quantify a demonstration is a good sign that the author is attempting to pump up a cause. The cause Raghavan pumps up here is Bush hatred.

At the very end of the story, Raghavan notes that followers of Moqtada al-Sadr took to the streets to support Zaidi. We also learn that in Sadr city, protesters burned American flags and claimed "we pushed [Bush] out with two shoes."

Does this mean that Zaidi is a Shiite and/or supporter of Moqtada al-Sadr? Beats me. But the fact that he is celebrated by the faction that, other than al Qaeda and (of course) the Saddamists, has lost the most by virtue of the success of Bush's policies is telling.

In war, there are winners, losers, and sore losers. Zaidi, his "thousands" of Iraqis supporters, and his admirers in other Arab nations appear to belong to the sore loser group. By lionizing Zaidi, the Post conveys the impression (which must be false) that it does too.

[Nbadan]

...and the wing-nut spin that 'this guy never threw shoes at Saddam Hussein', or 'Bush gave this guy the 'freedom' to throw shoes'......that's freaking comedy genius...

[baseline bum]

I'm gonna miss this shit.....can't we keep him around 4 more years for just the laughs?

:lol

The joke has been on the American people too much anyways. Better to have a good president than a president who is good for SNL skits.

[tp2021]

I don't know what you guys are fussin about, Bush dodged that like a pimp!

[ElNono]

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[Blake]

I guarantee if that was a choncla thrown by someone's abuelita, Bush would have gone down

[Yonivore]

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Mr. Muntader al-Zaidi is very lucky that it was Mr. Bush and Mr. Maliki and not Saddam Hussein. Because, had it been Mr. Saddam Hussein he'd be (inaudible). Number 2, in our country, I know that people have told you that showing shoes at someone is an insult. But, it is a bigger insult to the host; in our culture anyone who insults a guest is insulting the host. So in our culture we believe that what Mr al-Zeidi did was reprehensible.

[clambake]

:lmao:lmao:lmao:lmao:lmao:lmao

now yoni cares about their culture.

:lmao:lmao:lmao:lmao:lmao:lmao

[Spurtacus]

i would have caught that shit and pegged that guy

:lol

[Wild Cobra]

I wonder just how pathetic you people are who think it's funny that president Bush was such a target?

Definitely losers! I just don't know how low of a loser!

[Bob Lanier]

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[Nbadan]

Meet the new King, same as the old king....


Dargham al-Zaidi said he was told a judge had been to see his younger brother, Muntazer, at the jail where he has been held since throwing his shoes at the US president during a press conference in Baghdad on Sunday. The TV reporter – whose actions have made him a star in the Arab world – called Bush a "dog" and said he was angry at the US occupation of his country.

Dargham told the Associated Press he believed the private visit might have been arranged as his brother had been beaten up "and they fear that his appearance could trigger anger at the court".

According to Dargham, the 29-year-old reporter suffered a broken arm and ribs, as well as injuries to an eye and a leg after being badly beaten by security officials, and was treated at the Ibn Sina hospital, in Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone. Dargham said he did not know whether the injuries happened when Muntazer was being overpowered at the press conference or later.

Guardian (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/dec/17/george-bush-shoe-throw)