Iraqi journalist throws shoes at Bush

[HardcoreRobot]

lame DUCK!

 

[Zedtom]

The secret service agent that was to the left jumped up and danced around after both shoes had been thrown. He must have been dozing off since the proper response would have been to immediately jump up after the first shoe was thrown and place himself between the attacker and the president. These security people seem to be reactive rather than proactive.

The security people at NFL games face the crowd, the secret service agents should be facing the audience.

 

[BMW540I6speed]

That reporter now probably wishes he had worn a pair of these

 

[zoiks]

Hehe. That video is pretty awesome. Throwing shoes is nothing compared to what happened there.

 

[BoomerD]

Seems to me that throwing shoes is a far cry from the flowers we were promised that the Iraqi's would be throwing...

 

[jonks]

I think there's more to this story....I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop

 

[Vette73]

Originally posted by: Corbett

Originally posted by: Red Dawn

Originally posted by: manowar821

Originally posted by: Corbett
Wow, many of the responses in this thread are absolutely saddening.

Originally posted by: brxndxn
LOL good.. Hand-picked Iraqi press kiss-asses and STILL one of them hates Bush. Every where he goes, society needs to remind him of the fuckups he brought with his presidency.

Originally posted by: amdhunter
Too bad the Iraqi bastard missed.

Originally posted by: compuwiz1
Too bad the shoe thrower missed. Bush should be smacked up against the ears with those shoes.

Originally posted by: Lemon law
somehow I can't blame those soreheads giving GWB a tiny tiny fraction of what he deserves.

Originally posted by: GroundedSailor
Good to see the Iraqis using their freedom.

Originally posted by: waggy
i do have to admit it would have been funnyf if bush got naile din the head witht it.

Originally posted by: microbial
A fitting end to the GWB administration.

Originally posted by: BoomerD
I'd have loved to see "Made in China" imprinted on his forehead...

Originally posted by: Perry404
You're absolutely correct. The guy had no right to be angered over the million dead in his country since the wars beginning.

Originally posted by: colonel
gsave a few more for Dick and dont miss

How exactly are these responses "sad"?

Corbett was enrqaged when he read those responses

Time to lock another thread due to the trollmod.

Calling out a Mod when they are not posting as a Mod is auto ban the last I checked.

 

[jonks]

Originally posted by: Marlin1975

Originally posted by: Corbett

Originally posted by: Red Dawn
Corbett was enrqaged when he read those responses

Time to lock another thread due to the trollmod.

Calling out a Mod when they are not posting as a Mod is auto ban the last I checked.

He knows that. He's trying to become a martyr.

 

[Brovane]

Originally posted by: Zedtom
The secret service agent that was to the left jumped up and danced around after both shoes had been thrown. He must have been dozing off since the proper response would have been to immediately jump up after the first shoe was thrown and place himself between the attacker and the president. These security people seem to be reactive rather than proactive.

The security people at NFL games face the crowd, the secret service agents should be facing the audience.

I watched the video several times and this is the impression that I got.

The briefing was a very controlled environment and the room looked fairly small. I would imagine that all the journalists where searched and scanned before entering the room so the Service Service felt fairly secure. Looking at the video no agent was close by just the agent sitting down in the front row. The guy did a good job with velocity with the shoe throwing his throws where just about 1-2 feet high. Just a little lower he could have gotten a good body shot. He was also fairly quick on the follow up shot. Shortly after he threw them I did see the door open behind Bush and several secret service agents enter. The agent sitting down wasn't in a good position but he might not have had much choice.

 

[umbrella39]

Originally posted by: jonks

Originally posted by: Marlin1975

Originally posted by: Corbett

Originally posted by: Red Dawn
Corbett was enrqaged when he read those responses

Time to lock another thread due to the trollmod.

Calling out a Mod when they are not posting as a Mod is auto ban the last I checked.

He knows that. He's trying to become a martyr.

I like you jonks, you said what I was thinking. We need a new arm of the SS, the SSS, the secret shoe service to prevent future attacks. Hell, everyone knows we are fighting the shoes over there so we don't have to fight them here.

 

[nageov3t]

Maliki?s security agents jumped on the man, wrestled him to the floor and hustled him out of the room. They kicked him and beat him until ?he was crying like a woman,? said Mohammed Taher, a reporter for Afaq, a television station owned by the Dawa Party, which is led by Mr. Maliki. Mr. Zaidi was then detained on unspecified charges.

Other Iraqi journalists in the front row apologized to Mr. Bush, who was uninjured and tried to brush off the incident by making a joke. ?All I can report is it is a size 10,? he said, continuing to take questions and noting the apologies. He also called the incident a sign of democracy, saying, ?That?s what people do in a free society, draw attention to themselves,? as the man?s screaming could be heard outside...

Hitting someone with a shoe is considered the supreme insult in Iraq. It means that the target is even lower than the shoe, which is always on the ground and dirty.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12...iddleeast/15prexy.html

 

[heyheybooboo]

Originally posted by: Brovane

Originally posted by: Zedtom
The secret service agent that was to the left jumped up and danced around after both shoes had been thrown. He must have been dozing off since the proper response would have been to immediately jump up after the first shoe was thrown and place himself between the attacker and the president. These security people seem to be reactive rather than proactive.

The security people at NFL games face the crowd, the secret service agents should be facing the audience.

I watched the video several times and this is the impression that I got.

The briefing was a very controlled environment and the room looked fairly small. I would imagine that all the journalists where searched and scanned before entering the room so the Service Service felt fairly secure. Looking at the video no agent was close by just the agent sitting down in the front row. The guy did a good job with velocity with the shoe throwing his throws where just about 1-2 feet high. Just a little lower he could have gotten a good body shot. He was also fairly quick on the follow up shot. Shortly after he threw them I did see the door open behind Bush and several secret service agents enter. The agent sitting down wasn't in a good position but he might not have had much choice.

He was definitely "wild high" - might have something to do with 'shoe aerodynamics'.

The first toss was was pretty much spot-on and the second went wide-left - so much so that al-Maliki couldn't reach across to swap it down.

It's safe to say that every Bush protest will now involve holding up a shoe like in 'Life of Brian' ...

""Let us, like Him, hold up one shoe and let the other be upon our foot, for this is His sign, that all who follow Him shall do likewise.""

 

[jonks]

and the web gets busy doing its animation thing:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...owing-re_n_151129.html

 

[yllus]

Is it just me or is this an oddly fitting end to the Bush administration's Iraqi adventure?

Edit: Damn, beat by like a dozen people.

 

[Zebo]

Originally posted by: yllus
Is it just me or is this an oddly fitting end to the Bush administration's Iraqi adventure?

Edit: Damn, beat by like a dozen people.

Agreed. Great synopsis of Iraqis feeling for their 'savior'. The public reaction is even more telling. No longer can the administration and their fan bois hide behind green zone iraqis planted interviews when thousands are taking to streets demanding release of the journalist.


And Perry where do you get 1 million dead? Not that it makes it any more palatable but according to Iraqi body count it's around 90,000 dead since war began.

 

[heyheybooboo]

Originally posted by: Zebo

Originally posted by: yllus
Is it just me or is this an oddly fitting end to the Bush administration's Iraqi adventure?

Edit: Damn, beat by like a dozen people.

Agreed. Great synopsis of Iraqis feeling for their 'savior'. The public reaction is even more telling. No longer can the administration and their fan bois hide behind green zone iraqis planted interviews when thousands are taking to streets demanding release of the journalist.


And Perry where do you get 1 million dead? Not that it makes it any more palatable but according to Iraqi body count it's around 90,000 dead since war began.

We've technically been 'liberating' Iraq since January 16, 1991.

 

[Zebo]

Originally posted by: heyheybooboo

Originally posted by: Zebo

Originally posted by: yllus
Is it just me or is this an oddly fitting end to the Bush administration's Iraqi adventure?

Edit: Damn, beat by like a dozen people.

Agreed. Great synopsis of Iraqis feeling for their 'savior'. The public reaction is even more telling. No longer can the administration and their fan bois hide behind green zone iraqis planted interviews when thousands are taking to streets demanding release of the journalist.


And Perry where do you get 1 million dead? Not that it makes it any more palatable but according to Iraqi body count it's around 90,000 dead since war began.

We've technically been 'liberating' Iraq since January 16, 1991.

Ahh I see. I would not combine UN action supported by Muslim states, Clinton's actions, and Bush's BS war together but I can see where some might and Bush represents the leader of all the actions being president of USA. Thats cool.

 

[Lemon law]

For what its worth, the shoe thrower, one Al-Zaidi, has become an instant national Iraqi hero and many are calling for his release. We will see if he is prosecuted or not when the last shoe drops. Pun intended.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/200...WoGeKyxa2.FNNC0was0NUE

 

[Steeplerot]

I would mail a stinky assed shoe I have on the porch some squatter punks left to the WH to show solidarity (or is that soleidarity) but the way UPS is running it would probably arrive at Obamas doorstep.
Anyone know the addy of his new digs in Dallas? :evil:

 

[Alistar7]

Originally posted by: dmcowen674
Must've been SMD

Shoes of Mass Destruction :laugh:

Sanctions killed 10-15k Iraqis a MONTH when WHO was in office? Clinton, sounds like he killed far more Iraqi's than the war that liberated them from brutal oppression.

Ironic they would protest against the man who gave them the freedom to excercise that right. I can only imagine how he would have been treated under Saddams regime. Oh that's right, a free press was just a pipe dream & political dissent was treated with rape/torture/death.

This is the perfect ending to what was accomplished in Iraq. Highlights some of the positive change brought about by Bush's decision to remove one of this centuries most brutal, genocidal dictators.

 

[OrByte]

Originally posted by: Alistar7

Originally posted by: dmcowen674
Must've been SMD

Shoes of Mass Destruction :laugh:

Sanctions killed 10-15k Iraqis a MONTH when WHO was in office? Clinton, sounds like he killed far more Iraqi's than the war that liberated them from brutal oppression.

Ironic they would protest against the man who gave them the freedom to excercise that right. I can only imagine how he would have been treated under Saddams regime. Oh that's right, a free press was just a pipe dream & political dissent was treated with rape/torture/death.

This is the perfect ending to what was accomplished in Iraq. Highlights some of the positive change brought about by Bush's decision to remove one of this centuries most brutal, genocidal dictators.

you are right...definitely worth invading and liberating.

Too bad that's not what America was sold in the run up to the Iraq war.

 

[Red Dawn]

Originally posted by: Alistar7

Originally posted by: dmcowen674
Must've been SMD

Shoes of Mass Destruction :laugh:

Sanctions killed 10-15k Iraqis a MONTH when WHO was in office? Clinton, sounds like he killed far more Iraqi's than the war that liberated them from brutal oppression.

Hell we should have just put him on our payroll like Reagan did in the 80's.

 

[Lemon law]

Originally posted by: Red Dawn

Originally posted by: Alistar7

Originally posted by: dmcowen674
Must've been SMD

Shoes of Mass Destruction :laugh:

Sanctions killed 10-15k Iraqis a MONTH when WHO was in office? Clinton, sounds like he killed far more Iraqi's than the war that liberated them from brutal oppression.

Hell we should have just put him on our payroll like Reagan did in the 80's.

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Somewhat wrong Red Dawn, you only have it half right, Noreiga and Saddam were on the CIA payroll even before Reagan took office, but in the GOP playbook, there is nothing worse than a tinpot dictator that will not stay bought. A sin that must be punished with the dictator death penalty of total loss of power. GHB was too pragmatic, his son lost little time in enforcing the unwritten rules.

 

[tatteredpotato]

This guy better get a very serious sentence, you can't set the precedent that is's okay to hurl objects at the President of the United States.

I know the guy meant to insult Bush, but the reality is that he just made an ass of himself. First off his insult is on that is lost on 90% of Americans, and second he missed.

Luckily I heard the guy could get 7-8 years in prision.

 

[Red Dawn]

Originally posted by: ObscureCaucasian
This guy better get a very serious sentence, you can't set the precedent that is's okay to hurl objects at the President of the United States.

I know the guy meant to insult Bush, but the reality is that he just made an ass of himself. First off his insult is on that is lost on 90% of Americans, and second he missed.

Luckily I heard the guy could get 7-8 years in prision.

Yeah that's sit well with the Iraqi's:roll: