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 Shoe Ambush Sparks Pride and Protest Among ArabsPosted on Dec 15, 2008
Muntadhar al-Zaidi’s now-legendary flying shoes made headlines in the Arab world after the Iraqi journalist registered his disapproval of George W. Bush’s foreign policy choices during the U.S. president’s news conference in Baghdad on Sunday. As Link TV reported Monday, al-Zaidi’s gesture was widely viewed in and around Iraq as an unmistakable show of defiance and outrage, despite Bush’s assertion that al-Zaidi—a broadcast television reporter for Iraqi channel Al-Baghdadia—“wanted to get on TV and he did.” Link TV:
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By Tony Wicher, December 17, 2008 at 11:51 pm Link to this comment
RE Hulk2008, December 17 at 10:04 am
Actually, I am waiting to see Bush and Cheney hang for war crimes and treason. That will be even better than the shoes.
Report thisBy samosamo, December 17, 2008 at 2:28 pm Link to this comment
By Hulk2008, December 17 at 10:04 am
There is a fine sense of decorum in your comment but we are talking about regainning a government that has almost been stripped from its people. I just don’t see how playing by ‘lady’s garden club tea party’ rules will win this back. As a matter of fact I think those responsible would want you to react such a way which benefits their sorry crooked asses. I consider the whole robbery of our treasury and the subversion of our laws to benefit the corporate oligarchy the same as coming home and finding a band of criminals raping your wife & daughters killing your sons stealing your money. If you walked into that situation and had access to a weapon that would stop or prevent such, what would you do? Reason with them, have a ‘lady’s club tea party’, call the police or take care of the situation then and there? In these days and times, I am not sure what anyone would do but I know what I would do.
Report thisBy Hulk2008, December 17, 2008 at 11:04 am Link to this comment
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Report thisThose of you who condone physical assault and mob insanity (e.g. throwing shoes, spitting, epithets etc.) make yourselves as guilty as George W. Bush.
Fascism comes in many forms. W will earn his own place in history - right next to his pals Saddam Hussein, Paul Wolfowitz, and Don Rumsfeld.
By Sodium, December 16, 2008 at 9:53 pm Link to this comment
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It is regrettable that the terribly insulting pair of shoe have missed their intended target.I have wished that,at least,one of the thrown pair had hit the nose of the war criminal and bled it as a symbolic resistence from the UNTAINTED Iraqis by American imperialism and the uncontaminated Iraqis by Iranian hegemony as well,since the blunder of baby Bush had/has enhanced greatly the Iranian old ambition to be the superpower of the Middle East.One credit must be given to Saddam Hussein’s Iraq,who denied Iran and its theocratic clerics of Mullahs from that Iranian long cherished goal.Saddam and his highly educated and dedicated Ba’athists had kept Iran in CONSTANT CHECK.That was for certain;and the eight years war with Iran(1980-1988)had attested to that effect…..
Report thisYes,indeed,the UGLY CRIMINALITY and the DITURBINGLY HUGE STRATEGIC BLUNDER of BABY BUSH deserve not only two pair of shoe thrown at his murderous face,but also the 25 millions pair of shoes worn by the 25 million Iraqis whose lives and country have been destroyed by Baby Bush and his evil cohorts…..
By abdo, December 16, 2008 at 4:28 pm Link to this comment
hulk 2008 Before you moon The Iraqis ask your self who stool to elections from the American people? who falsified documents coned and forced media to drums up In just invasion of other countries and who send poor and minority Americans to Killie hundred of thousand Iraqi and Afghani and other” call them terrorist and kill them or they are collateral damage” ?! Who in your name tortured and kidnapped people all over the world in your name? Hulk I demonstrated yelled and protested the war since it started and be for that too ? If you want go to Washington and ask who committed war crimes in may name
Report thisBy Fadel Abdallah, December 16, 2008 at 3:05 pm Link to this comment
By Hulk2008, December 16 at 9:19 am #
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Next time I meet an Iraqi I will be sorely tempted to shoot him an old-fashioned redneck moon, just for spite - but being an educated American I won’t.
Report thisI wish W had caught the joker’s shoes and refused to give them back, making the fool walk barefoot - or shoved them in his stupid face.
I cannot wait until our soldiers finally escape and shake the filth from their own shoes from that pit of pulverized silicon. Iraq did not need to be pounded back into the Stone Age - it was already there.
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Hulk2008! You’re an evil fascist supporting the latest most evil fascist! If I ever get a chance to meet you I will treat your ugly face with a pair of shoes covered with pig-shit, the I will top that with a big spit in your fascist face!
By Fadel Abdallah, December 16, 2008 at 1:48 pm Link to this comment
Though the shoes-throwing was aimed at criminal Bush who could not understand the depth of the symbolic insult aimed at him, it was likewise aimed at Nori al-Malaki, the puppet prime minister who hosted Bush, and who would understand the symbolic depth of the act.
So in a sense these two shoes symbolize the power of the aggrieved weapon in face of the weapons of mass destruction which evil Bush symbolizes.
No blood was shed, yet the message was more powerful than the message that weapons of mass destruction might convey!
Report thisBy candy moore, December 16, 2008 at 11:05 am Link to this comment
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I think that assault charges against the reporter should be dropped…he missed for God’s sake!
Report thisBy Hulk2008, December 16, 2008 at 10:19 am Link to this comment
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As much as I have strongly opposed George W. Bush, his overall contempt for what I hold dear, and his 8 years of devastation wreaked on our nation, I still believe any foreigner who throws shoes or whatever at him are putting US citizens down. Americans have never treated visitors in such a way; it’s totally unbecoming and speaks volumes about the middle east and their so-called ancient heritage. If that’s the behavior of an educated person in the region, the product of thousands of years of honored traditions and profound religious precepts, they can keep their vaunted “culture”. Next time I meet an Iraqi I will be sorely tempted to shoot him an old-fashioned redneck moon, just for spite - but being an educated American I won’t.
Report thisI wish W had caught the joker’s shoes and refused to give them back, making the fool walk barefoot - or shoved them in his stupid face.
I cannot wait until our soldiers finally escape and shake the filth from their own shoes from that pit of pulverized silicon. Iraq did not need to be pounded back into the Stone Age - it was already there.
By mud, December 16, 2008 at 10:01 am Link to this comment
By randyha, December 15 at 10:43 pm #
This guy is a hero to many here in the US and around the globe and not just in Iraq. Honestly, how many of us wanted to do the same thing to Bush?
YES! my hero too…
Report thisBy Fadel Abdallah, December 16, 2008 at 9:39 am Link to this comment
Since there is no chance for Arabs to develop their own weapons of mass destruction, I think they have two or three powerful alternative weapons to use against their enemies. Besides the weapon of the shoes, there is another even more insulting weapon of spitting in the faces of the enemies.
A few years ago, as a number of Arab intellectuals met informally and began to discuss politics and lament how tiny Israel managed to defeat all Arabs with their weapons of mass destruction, I suggested a novel way to defeat Israel: My plan was for all 350 million Arabs simultaneously holding their urine, then at a single given moment release their combined urine force through pipes reaching the borders of Israel and causing a river of urine that would convince the wise Israelis to take for the Mediterranean and go back where they came from!!
This might be a piece of fiction, but with some low-cost engineering and disciplined planning, it might turn out to be a practical novelty in future warfare technology!!
Report thisBy DarthMiffy, December 16, 2008 at 4:31 am Link to this comment
OR, as we say here in Japan: Bush-shu!
Report thisBy nancy Lo, December 16, 2008 at 12:50 am Link to this comment
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I feel bad for the reporter because he’s probably getting tortured by the puppet’s (Maliki) henchmen.
Report thisBy samosamo, December 16, 2008 at 12:40 am Link to this comment
For sure, I am not one of the less than 25% of americans that support w or his criminal policies and agendas. As a matter of fact, I support taking w into custody and turning him over for war crime trails in the world court or the hague.
Report thisBy randyha, December 15, 2008 at 11:43 pm Link to this comment
This guy is a hero to many here in the US and around the globe and not just in Iraq. Honestly, how many of us wanted to do the same thing to Bush?
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