Oh come on! How many of us wish we could throw a shoe at Bush. I prefer a brick to knock some sense into him. The reporter is from Iraqi. It is their custom to show disrespect by throwing shoes. It’s not likely to kill someone, just humiliate him. However, many of us found it just plain funny as we all have wanted to do something, anything to show Bush how damn wrong he has been for 8 years and still believing he has done nothing wrong. It gave me a mind break from the Bush Show. I hope nothing bad happened to this man as he deserves to show his anger and distrust just like us. We invaded his country. How would all of you feel if we in the USA were invaded. We’d be pissed and fighting mad too.

I’m no fan of King George, but I fail to understand how some people can actually applaud such contemptible behavior from a “journalist.” Bush was lucky he’s got quick reflexes for an old coot; but he could easily have suffered a broken nose or knocked out teeth if the heel of one of those flying shoes caught him in the face. Would that make people feel good to see a U.S. president bleeding and humiliated in front of the entire world? Not I. And if blame is to be assigned for this stupid war, let’s dole it out to a rubber-stamp Congress, a lapdog press, and an ignorant, lazy electorate.

First & foremost, If we have spent Treasure and Blood to put another regime in power which beats or tortures Iraqi’s, then our entire catalog of ‘reasons’for going there have been debunked! So those in Power had better consider how Americans will view such harsh interrogation methods and treatment for such minor infractions and displays of dissent.We have alot invested in Your Fledgling Democracy..whether we like it or not. We already feel betrayed and angry about No WMD’s,NO AQ connection, NO Anthrax. The only hope for vindication was bringing Justice levied with temperance. We hate to Lose, but we Resent having been conned into fighting On the side of the Bully.
Fight and Win a great cause- Fabulous. Fought and lost a good cause- we will fight again. Fight for a Bad cause, and everyone is demoralized.If the Iraqi gov’t is still torturing those arrested,shit hasn’t changed a bit.And that Utterly pises me off.
There is another reason the Iraq Gov’t had better handle this incident with kid gloves. there is a level of Good Will which should not be underestimated created by this incident, It’s a gift that keeps on giving. 
I am not laughing at the journalist’s mode of expression for his frustration, more at the look on w’s face after the first shoe. He look like a kid playing dodge ball taunting his oppostion. I don’t think W processed the Fact that the object that just flew past him could have actually been something dangerous. He Stood back Up! The man doesn’t even have enough common sense to hit the ground esp when visiting a nation you’ve devastated. W was not showing bravado, so much as Stupidity.
Really, only slightly more ‘deadly’ then the finger. Hell at least it wasn’t a 6 Inch High heel Pump or a Steel Toe boot! I’m guessing, rubber sole?
Honestly, I have not laughed that hard in months. It made may day, I smiled & laughed everytime I thought about it. It was Hysterical! and considering the last 8 yrs, I think the entire world could use a good laugh, esp together at W’s expense.
A Happy Holidays video message of Good Will to All!

The Iraqi Gov’t had better plan for a serious backlash if this journalist has been harmed from US. That will be THE Insult, THE slap in the Face to Every American. At least give US the dignity to have saved your people from torturous regimes.The Bush Admin Will face US inregards to torture, Don’t assume You will be under their protection once their gone. We have a lot of questions about your gov’t and what the hell you all have been doing for 5 yrs!And since We’ve been floating Your boat for those 5 yrs, we have the right to accountablity- at least for our Money! and Public officials will be the first Under the microscope for investigation and prosecution, In Both Countries.

Finally, A Journalist We Can Look Up To!
A Hero of Our Time: Muntadar al-Zaidi

By DAVE LINDORFF

“When Iraqi journalist Muntadar al-Zaidi heaved his two shoes at the head of President George W. Bush during a press conference in Baghdad, he did something that the White House press corps should have done years ago.

Al-Zaidi listened to Bush blather that the half-decade of war he had initiated with the illegal invasion of Iraq had been “necessary for US security, Iraqi stability (sic) and world peace” and something just snapped. The television correspondent, who had been kidnapped and held for a while last year by Shiite militants, pulled off a shoe and threw it at Bush—a serious insult in Iraqi culture—and shouted “This is a farewell kiss, you dog!”  When the first shoe missed its target, he grabbed a second shoe and heaved it too, causing the president to duck a second time as al-Zaidi shouted, “This is from the widows, the orphans, and those who were killed in Iraq!”

I’ll admit, listening to Bush lie his way through eight years of press conferences, while pre-selected reporters played along and pretended to get his attention so they could ask questions which had been submitted and vetted in advance, I have felt like throwing my shoes at the television set.

Al-Zaidi, who paid for his courageous act of protest by being brutally beaten by security guards, is a hero of the profession.  He stopped taking the president’s BS and called him what he is: a murderer and a criminal, with the blood of perhaps upwards of a million Iraqis on his hands. Al-Zaidi used what was supposed to be a staged photo-op for the president as an opportunity to speak up for those whose lives have been ruined by this president—the ones our suck-up journalists routinely ignore.

I’m not suggesting that journalists should routinely leave presidential press conferences in their stocking feet.  We have different ways of expressing our sentiments to people we feel have insulted our intelligence than throwing shoes at them, but it would be nice to see a journalist or two flip the president the bird when he lies so blatantly to them. Or they could all get up and just walk out, leaving him standing alone at the presidential lectern.

It’s time for the press corps to stop treating presidents like royalty.  If he accomplished anything at all in eight years in office, President Bush has demonstrated that, to the contrary, the president is a very ordinary—and in his case a rather less than ordinary—man. The office of president deserves no more respect than that of the mayor of Detroit, or of Wasilla.

My suggestion is that the press corps use the remaining five weeks of the Bush administration to develop a new relationship with the presidency—one in which they drop all the phony propriety and tradition and start acting like boisterous newshounds of old, barking questions, laughing cruelly at inane answers, demanding follow-ups when they are given the run-around, and, where necessary, walking out, or perhaps tossing the occasional shoe.

The journalism profession was a full-blown disaster and an utter disgrace during the Bush administration, and with all the crises facing the country and the world, in part because of that failure on their part, we cannot afford to have them continue that failure into the Obama administration.”

http://www.counterpunch.org/lindorff12152008.html

The man who threw his shoes at our president has started a movement.

I hope it keeps going.

If Bush thinks he did a great service for Iraq why does he show up in secret?  Why does not he parade around in an open vehicle and let the Iraqis applaud him if he is so great.  He won’t because he is a chicken s—t and knows he would get hung or dragged through the streets and THEN hung. 

Just one life lost due to GWB’s war is enough for hanging.  Clinton got impeached for getting a blow job.  COMPARE THAT to the people killed, maimed and displaced because of his wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

What a hero!

Let’s hope the WTI is reconvened soon, since Bush is leaving office:

http://www.tni.org/detail_page.phtml?page=mil-docs_wti

Yes, we, as Americans are the terrorists of the world.  George W. Bush and his hoodlum neocon freak cohorts have turned the USA from being a great nation into the horrific terrorizing shame of humanity. We are the world’s nightmare. 

This man’s fate should be the top of our news.  Why is the “liberal media” basically just a mouthpiece for the criminal psychopath Bush administration and his pals in the DIC?  Alas because it isn’t a liberal media in any sense of the word.  As an example MSNBC should analyze the horrendous mistreatment of human beings at the hands of the Bush administration or it’s puppets, instead of just putting on highly controlled pseudo-representations of free press like Olbermann—albeit Keith is a champion of truth compared to virtually anyone else on mass media.

The truth be told, George Bush should be tried and serve out the rest of his days in an Iraqi jail run by Iraqis who aren’t traitors to their own country, at minimum. No one should have to suffer another day because of this psychopathic degenerate. 

This man is innocent, he is just and rightful in his throwing of the shoes at Bush.  If some country did to England or the USA what Bush has done to Iraq for just one day, we’d burn everyone alive that we could get our hands on.  We’d level every square inch of ground they stood upon, forget about just blowing up vehicles here and there: we’d do so happily and proudly.  Yet if they blow up anything on our side they care labelled terrorists and we put hoods over their heads.  Putting hoods over the heads of captives is a Hitlerian act of terrorism in itself.  This is the liberal media telling us these crooked twisted unholy lies and even suggesting that keeping Guantanomo open is ok as the phony baloney Rachel Maddow of MSNBC made one of her shows focused on promoting.

Just yesterday I read a report by an “AP” “journalist”.  He said, “tens of thousands of civilians have died in the Iraq war.  He is a liar not a member of the press, he is an agent of the criminal mobsters that have hijacked our governments.  By John’s Hopkins studies circa 2004 we had at least 700,000 Iraqi civilians killed as the direct result of coalition activities in Iraq.  We are now into the millions of dead and even more millions of civilian Iraqis displaced.

We are the terrorists whether we admit it to ourselves or not.  The war on terror is a complete fabrication to help justify the theft of trillions of dollars from our treasury.  Wake up now and stop being afraid or we will surely lose our great country and everything good Americans have fought for… everything.  These trash criminals are not worth it.  Let’s break their bones and put an end to their treachery.

I feel this man’s frustration!  I think as an American, if another country had invaded America and done to them what our government did to their country, we too would be up in arms!  We invaded based on lies, deceit, evidence that changed daily!  We went in with no plans, no exit strategy, and worse no plans to secure the peace!  We went in for OIL, and “OUR” control of it!  Don’t believe it, think back to when the country was being looted, where were the troops, surrounding the “OIL MINISTRY”, enough said!!!

How many thousands of Iraqi’s are dead, wounded, displaced from their country - by a pack of war-mongering hyenas that still don’t have a clue!  Or is it ok, because “those people” could still be under Saddam!  Well, let us have a little truth here, where do people think Saddam got his chemical weapons from! Hello, let us connect the dots, Rumsfeld wasn’t there bringing roses!!

That man was angry and it is actually an insult (that was lost on our clueless leader), I’m angry for him, and I’m angry that the sociopath in charge, doesn’t feel any thing, no responsibility, no remorse, nothing for the carnage that has happened not just in Iraq, but over the last 8 years!  Do I think the man should be arrested, no, I think he needs another pair of shoes!!!!!