Bush Ducks in Iraq Attack.

[Merlot]

Hello all,

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/12/14/bush.iraq/index.html

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- A man identified as an Iraqi journalist threw shoes at -- but missed -- President Bush during a news conference Sunday evening in Baghdad, where Bush was making a farewell visit.

Bush ducked, and the shoes, flung one at a time, sailed past his head during the news conference with Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in his palace in the heavily fortified Green Zone.

The shoe-thrower -- identified as Muntadhar al-Zaidi, an Iraqi journalist with Egypt-based al-Baghdadia television network -- could be heard yelling in Arabic: "This is a farewell ... you dog!"

While pinned on the ground by security personnel, he screamed: "You killed the Iraqis!"

Al-Zaidi was dragged away. While al-Zaidi was still screaming in another room, Bush said: "That was a size 10 shoe he threw at me, you may want to know."

Hurling shoes at someone, or sitting so that the bottom of a shoe faces another person, is considered an insult among Muslims.

The gesture "is the ultimate insult, reserved for the most hated"

A fitting symbolic statement on Bush's presidency???

YUP!

Merlot

Continued...on link.

Video...http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/12/14/bush.iraq/index.html#cnnSTCVideo

 

[GTA refugee]

Here is the video!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OM3Z_Kskl_U

 

[bond_james_bond]

I predict Oliver Stone will make a movie about it.

 

[Lilly Lombard]

lol Malheureusement, il l'a manqué

Ouin... c'est assez décevant!

 

[THEHITMAN]

Too bad it was only a shoe should of used something bigger so he wouldn't have missed lol

 

[Shiver MeTimber]

Ha! Imagine if it had been Imelda Marcos.........1,060 pairs of shoes or 2,120 SOG

 

[metoo4]

Those were the "weapons of mass destruction" he was talking about!
Bush is lying again: he said he could tell the shoe size just by seeing them fly by. Personally, as "weapons of mass destruction", I'd be more concerned by the smell than the size!

 

[UNIVAC]

Did you notice that no secret service agents steped in the line of fire. If one of them did,he would have been set in theagency for life. He would have been known as the agent that was willing to take one for the president.

 

[Ben Dover]

A fitting final tribute for this great leader who has inspired us all.

I am looking forward to 30 years from now when W is really old and 4 or 5 more presidents have come and gone and the consensus will remain "Yep -- George W Bush was THE worst US president ever."


When he eventually dies, I'm sure there will be piles of dirty shoes on his grave.


BD

 

[THEHITMAN]

Il aurait dû lui lancer les chaussures de Léonid Stadnik. Avec ça, il ne l'aurait pas manqué

Hahaha ta raison lol

 

[sinbad]

Two pitches, two misses.................

No chance of Major League Baseball opening franchises in Iraq any time soon...............

sinbad

 

[newman1]

by the way
the guy said" this is a goodbye kiss , you dog" and he throw the shoe
for me this sitence alone is great!

 

[rollingstone]

I have to say this made my day. Its unfortunate the guy is still in jail. There are already demonstrations demanding his release.

 

[Dee]

Gosh its hard not to love it!

How would you like to be a parent who lost a kid in Iraq and now see the Iraqis going crazy because the thrower is in jail?

 

[Doc Holliday]

It's unfortunate that the thousands of innocents Bush has sent to their deaths due to the fabricated Iraqi invasion & occupancy didn't have the same chances he had to get out of the way.

 

[Merlot]

Did you notice that no secret service agents steped in the line of fire. If one of them did,he would have been set in theagency for life. He would have been known as the agent that was willing to take one for the president.

Hmmmm UNIVAC,

How many seconds between pitches were there? And still he got the second throw away clean. Too bad the guy had only two feet. I think the Secret Service might have hesitated longer to see of the third pitch was the charm. Darn Nuri al-Maliki had to interfere. Spoil sport. Nice how Bush stood there waiting for it too...lol. He's quick...an expert from ducking reality all of his life.

Dufus,

Merlot

 

[metoo4]

Fishing here but, anybody smell a staged shot?

 

[Sexy_BBW_Véro]

Vraiment dommage qu'il l'aie raté!

Il le merite en masse! Même pire!

 

[Techman]

Too bad it wasn't a grenade.

 

[rollingstone]

The brother of the Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at US President George W Bush has said that the reporter has been beaten in custody.

Muntadar al-Zaidi has allegedly suffered a broken arm, broken ribs and internal bleeding, his older brother, Dargham, told the BBC.
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Earlier, Dargham al-Zaidi told the BBC's Caroline Wyatt in Baghdad he believed his brother had been taken to a US military hospital in the Iraqi capital
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Mr Zaidi told our correspondent that despite offers from many lawyers his brother has not been given access to a legal representative since being arrested by forces under the command of Mowaffaq al-Rubaie, Iraq's national security adviser.

Full Article can be found here http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7785338.stm

It looks like the Iraqi's deny he is being tortured, but he still no access to lawyer. In the mean time it looks like a bidding war has started for the actual shoes. I wonder who has them.

On a different note, I have always found it funny when Bush and his cronies praise the security situation, while all their visits to Iraq are conducted in secret and unannounced. Way to act presidential. Looks more like a thief or cuckold slipping out in the middle of the night.