The link says it all.
Funny how liberals were suggesting that they don't talk about this! Bush busted out some serious skills in dodging not one but two flying Size 10 projectiles!
So I guess 9/11 excuses the Iraqi invasion?
What a wonderful thing 9/11 was. It allowed the USA to do whatever they want, and be right about it.
Ironise what you want, Guy, but I am telling you that this shoe represent more than a deranged journalist in the Arab world. Everybody here see the guy as a national hero, for showing to Bush at least once what the Arab people thinks of him, because of the suffering he's caused.
True to form, the press is trumpeting unconfirmed reports of the shoe-thrower having been 'abused' in custody, that he has broken arms & ribs, and a cut to his face. The horror. All on the basis of his brother's uncorroborated claims. None of them stop to realize, let alone remark on the fact, that 5 years ago, he'd already be dead, burned & his body strung up from a bridge in downtown Baghdad as a 'message'.
Yup...a "shoe in" for the job.
Yep...only under Saddam, you never would have heard of it. Guess a lotta folks over there aren't too fond of him.
At least he founf the "WMD"'s....can you imagine what Iraqui shoes smell like?
Just because he wasn't killed as he would have been under a prior regime, does not excuse abusing a prisoner under the current one.
Be well.
How do we know that these injuries didn't occur during his warranted beat down? Most of those who initiated the beat down looked like other reporters. If the abuse came later I agree but that assumes that these injuries weren't sustained when the guy behind and others threw him to the floor near chairs.
I am thankful that the President wasn't hit.
Especially with the possiblity that it could have been a shoe bomb? Thankfully it wasn't.
I thought it was funny when Bush commented that he saw the sole of the attacker.
Clearly there are kooks all over the world and on all political sides.
That doesn't follow at all.
From this incident follows that there are kooks in Arab countries and on the political left.
How do we know that these injuries didn't occur during his warranted beat down?
I am still wondering that the kooks didn't conclude that it was Israeli agents who beat him up in prison.
Most of those who initiated the beat down looked like other reporters.
The media of course report that the single idiot reporter is a "national hero", while the dozens of reporters who disagreed with him are hardly mentioned at all.
And I am especially unhappy at the Arab world's apparently gleeful response.
I think it's a good sign.
That reporter is perhaps the first Arab folk hero in recent memory who did not blow up a mosque or synagogue or murdered a few young children.
Perhaps in 20 years the Arabs will celebrate normal people and then in 40 years or so actual heroes.
I'm not suggesting that it does. I am suggesting that the Arab & American media 1) not accept uncorroborated allegations & trumpet them as if they were true, and 2) at least point out the difference between how this would have been handled in the old regime compared to the new one. They seem only interested in adding fuel to a fire which may be based on false information. The American media seem to love a bit too much reporting how much we are hated, as if the hatred is its own justification - doesn't matter whether the hatred is justified or not.
Yep, no praise for the reporters who reacted heroically in trying to prevent the second shoe being thrown and in assisting the capture of a criminal.
I am suggesting that the Arab & American media 1) not accept uncorroborated allegations & trumpet them as if they were true,
That won't happen.
and 2) at least point out the difference between how this would have been handled in the old regime compared to the new one.
The crimes of the old regime have never found a place in the media's handling of the Iraq affair.
Its a good thing the secret service didn't turn this shoe throwing clown into a swiss cheese. That would have been a PR nightmare.
hehe
So, Adolf Hitler wasn't a kook? Or Mussolini? Or some of our very own far right fascists here in the US like those in the John Birch Society or the KKK? There are Kooks all over the wold in all political persuasions.