Iraqi Journalist Throws Shoes At Bush..Misses

On a more serious note, I thought the shoe throwing was rather disrespectful, even though I dislike Bush very much.

If that journo had thrown shoes at Saddam, I am sure he would have been shot on the spot. Credit to Bush for just brushing it off.
 
interwaff said:
Hundreds greeted the president respectfully, and one attention whore got his 5 seconds of fame. What a loser.
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"Hundreds"? What do you suppose the greeting would look like outside the Green Zone? Or even outside the hand picked, background screened, pro-American only Iraqi press corp?
 
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ahtong said:
If that journo had thrown shoes at Saddam, I am sure he would have been shot on the spot. Credit to Bush for just brushing it off.
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Its kind of ironic that President Bush has created the situation in Iraq where people now have the freedom to throw shoes at him. Must have been the way Gorbachov felt when people started to have the freedom to criticise him.
 
skeptigirl said:
"Hundreds"? What do you suppose the greeting would look like outside the Green Zone? Or even outside the hand picked, background screened, pro-American only Iraqi press corp?
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Clearly not all of the journalists there were pro-American.
 
ahtong said:
On a more serious note, I thought the shoe throwing was rather disrespectful, even though I dislike Bush very much.
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I have to imagine that was kind of the point.

But I'll agree that throwing shoes at world leaders is something people ought to avoid doing.
 
If Bush's secret service team was competent this guy might have been shot before the shoe left his hand. It could have been a real mess in that room. Luckily for the shoe thrower they seem to be slow as molasses.
 
ahtong said:
On a more serious note, I thought the shoe throwing was rather disrespectful, even though I dislike Bush very much.
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Ya don't say. That was the whole point. Bush deserves disrespect. He reaps what he sows.


If that journo had thrown shoes at Saddam, I am sure he would have been shot on the spot. Credit to Bush for just brushing it off.
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Credit to Bush? ya kidding us? Bush is a total jerk. He had the gall to say in the ABC interview afterwards that he didn't know what they guy's beef was. :jaw-dropp:jaw-dropp:jaw-dropp
 
rwguinn said:
Gee- Had it bee an American throwing stuff at a Muslim, you ******** whould have been all over the guy.
The blame america first crowd and Bush haters cannot even be good winners- still have to put the guy down AFTER you have won!

Why was this jerk allowed anywhere near the event?
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Well I think he was one of the reasons for it. He was conducting a press conference with the Iraqi Leader.
 
Policenaut said:
If Bush's secret service team was competent this guy might have been shot before the shoe left his hand. It could have been a real mess in that room. Luckily for the shoe thrower they seem to be slow as molasses.
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If the secret service had done that it would be a major disaster. The whole Arab world would be up in arms over Americans bringing guns to a shoe fight. Having said that, I'm amazed the journo had time to throw a second shoe. You'd think they would have tackled him before that.
 
CORed said:
It looked to me like his throws were right on target, but Bush did a good job of ducking.
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Bush has had a lot of practise at press conferences. But while the Iraqi journalist was intending to prove the pen is not mightier than the Florsheim, he couldn't hit a cow in the ass with a bass fiddle.
 
Policenaut said:
If Bush's secret service team was competent this guy might have been shot before the shoe left his hand. It could have been a real mess in that room. Luckily for the shoe thrower they seem to be slow as molasses.
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I was just thinking that.

On the one hand the secret service agents might have quickly assessed the threat and Bush's ability to duck out of the way and rightly classified the situation as not dangerous.

On the other hand maybe they didn't.
 
gtc said:
Its kind of ironic that President Bush has created the situation in Iraq where people now have the freedom to throw shoes at him. Must have been the way Gorbachov felt when people started to have the freedom to criticise him.
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I don't suppose it has dawned on you that all Iraqis don't view the world exactly the way Fox news portrays it.
 
skeptigirl said:
I don't suppose it has dawned on you that all Iraqis don't view the world exactly the way Fox news portrays it.
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:dl:

What has that got to do with what I posted?

And what makes you think I watch Fox News?

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This is because I pointed out that calling people 'retarded' is really insulting isn't it?
 
Seriously, would you prefer the Iraqis didn't have the freedom to throw shoes at a press conference hosted by their leader?
 
the freedom to trow shoes?

10 000's of Innocent Iraqis died in a war based on lies......

I would like to see you greeting your "Liberator" after the Liberators his freedom bombs killed your familie.
 
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