I'm not surprised he went there.
It defines his epic failure as the worst President the U.S. has had to date.
It defines the turning point of the fall of the United States itself.
It defines loss that melds with loss on our home soil despite the fact they have nothing to do with each other. ( I am currently living with family members that Bush sucessfully convinced them Sadam was responsible for the 9-11 attack, Bin Laden who?)
It all started on three letters of WMD that ended with four letters BUSH.
Update: Bush gets shoes thrown at him by Iraqi Journalist
12-14-2008 "This is a farewell kiss, you dog!"
BAGHDAD ? On an Iraq trip shrouded in secrecy and marred by dissent, President George W. Bush on Sunday hailed progress in the war that defines his presidency and got a size-10 reminder of his unpopularity when a man hurled two shoes at him during a news conference.
"This is a farewell kiss, you dog!" shouted the protester in Arabic, later identified as Muntadar al-Zeidi, a correspondent for Al-Baghdadia television, an Iraqi-owned station based in Cairo, Egypt.
Bush ducked both shoes as they whizzed past his head and landed with a thud against the wall behind him.
"It was a size 10," Bush joked later.
12-14-2008 Bush makes surprise Iraq visit to close out tenure
BAGHDAD ? President George W. Bush on Sunday made a farewell visit to Iraq, a place that defines his presidency for better or worse, just 37 days before he hands the war off to a successor who has pledged to end it.
Air Force One, the president's distinctive powder blue-and-white jetliner, landed at Baghdad International Airport in the afternoon local time, after a secretive Saturday night departure from Washington and an 11-hour flight. In a sign of modest security gains in this war zone, Bush was welcomed with a formal arrival ceremony ? a flourish that was not part of his previous three trips to Iraq.
But in many ways this was a victory lap without a victory: Nearly 150,000 U.S. troops remain in Iraq fighting a war that is remarkably unpopular in the United States and across the globe. More than 4,209 members of the U.S. military have been killed in a war that has cost U.S. taxpayers $576 billion since it began five years and nine months ago.
While violence has slowed in Iraq, attacks continue, especially in the north. At least 55 people were killed Thursday in a suicide bombing in a restaurant near Kirkuk.
Bush's visit came after Defense Secretary Robert Gates' unannounced stop in Iraq on Saturday, at a sprawling military base in the central part of the country.
It defines his epic failure as the worst President the U.S. has had to date.
It defines the turning point of the fall of the United States itself.
It defines loss that melds with loss on our home soil despite the fact they have nothing to do with each other. ( I am currently living with family members that Bush sucessfully convinced them Sadam was responsible for the 9-11 attack, Bin Laden who?)
It all started on three letters of WMD that ended with four letters BUSH.
Update: Bush gets shoes thrown at him by Iraqi Journalist
12-14-2008 "This is a farewell kiss, you dog!"
BAGHDAD ? On an Iraq trip shrouded in secrecy and marred by dissent, President George W. Bush on Sunday hailed progress in the war that defines his presidency and got a size-10 reminder of his unpopularity when a man hurled two shoes at him during a news conference.
"This is a farewell kiss, you dog!" shouted the protester in Arabic, later identified as Muntadar al-Zeidi, a correspondent for Al-Baghdadia television, an Iraqi-owned station based in Cairo, Egypt.
Bush ducked both shoes as they whizzed past his head and landed with a thud against the wall behind him.
"It was a size 10," Bush joked later.
12-14-2008 Bush makes surprise Iraq visit to close out tenure
BAGHDAD ? President George W. Bush on Sunday made a farewell visit to Iraq, a place that defines his presidency for better or worse, just 37 days before he hands the war off to a successor who has pledged to end it.
Air Force One, the president's distinctive powder blue-and-white jetliner, landed at Baghdad International Airport in the afternoon local time, after a secretive Saturday night departure from Washington and an 11-hour flight. In a sign of modest security gains in this war zone, Bush was welcomed with a formal arrival ceremony ? a flourish that was not part of his previous three trips to Iraq.
But in many ways this was a victory lap without a victory: Nearly 150,000 U.S. troops remain in Iraq fighting a war that is remarkably unpopular in the United States and across the globe. More than 4,209 members of the U.S. military have been killed in a war that has cost U.S. taxpayers $576 billion since it began five years and nine months ago.
While violence has slowed in Iraq, attacks continue, especially in the north. At least 55 people were killed Thursday in a suicide bombing in a restaurant near Kirkuk.
Bush's visit came after Defense Secretary Robert Gates' unannounced stop in Iraq on Saturday, at a sprawling military base in the central part of the country.
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