GEORGE W BUSH is so good .....

ALICEtheGOON · Post by **ALICEtheGOON** » Sun Dec 14, 2008 5:50 pm

at dodging a shoe being thrown at him.

...the rest is history .

ygmir · Post by **ygmir** » Sun Dec 14, 2008 5:52 pm

just think if Kennedy were as nimble............

DVD Burner · Post by **DVD Burner** » Sun Dec 14, 2008 6:02 pm

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And just when I thought I could not watch this enough times, then comes the shoe.

Yep, now I have something new to watch several times a day.

YEAH BABY!

Hey, too bad it wasn't a shoe bomber.

Post by **Elderberry** » Sun Dec 14, 2008 6:37 pm

That is a misleading news report for which they apologized shortly after they aired it. There was already a photo-op for handshakes and greetings and every dignitary there posed with Bush for a handshake/picture.

JK

DVD Burner · Post by **DVD Burner** » Mon Dec 15, 2008 2:19 am

I still enjoy watching it.

unjonharley · Post by **unjonharley** » Mon Dec 15, 2008 7:11 am

hay buddy can you spare me a 10,, (size shoes)

wedeliver · Post by **wedeliver** » Mon Dec 15, 2008 8:16 am

unjonharley wrote:hay buddy can you spare me a 10,, (size shoes)

Hey unjon, long time no see. I was wondering about you the other day,, everything ok?

Heard there was a bank bombed with bad effect up in your neck of the woods.

unjonharley · Post by **unjonharley** » Mon Dec 15, 2008 8:52 am

wedeliver wrote:
unjonharley wrote:hay buddy can you spare me a 10,, (size shoes)
Hey unjon, long time no see. I was wondering about you the other day,, everything ok?

Heard there was a bank bombed with bad effect up in your neck of the woods.

key board died, printing with the mouse. one letter @ a time. snowed in @ top of hill. 650ft abv c leve

Post by **Sham** » Mon Dec 15, 2008 9:27 am

The guy who threw that shoe, should be made president of Iraq. He is my new hero! He did what we have all been thinking for the last 8 torturous years.

DVD Burner · Post by **DVD Burner** » Mon Dec 15, 2008 10:41 am

Shoe-Hurling Iraqi Becomes a Folk Hero

By TIMOTHY WILLIAMS and SHARON OTTERMAN
Published: December 15, 2008

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/16/world ... ?ref=world

BAGHDAD â€” A day after an Iraqi television journalist threw his shoes at President Bush at a news conference in Baghdad on Sunday, his act of defiance toward the American commander-in-chief reverberated throughout Iraq and across the Arab world.

In Sadr City, the sprawling Baghdad suburb that has seen some of the most intense fighting between insurgents and American soldiers since the 2003 invasion, thousands of people marched in his defense. In Syria, he was hailed as a hero. In Libya, he was given an award for courage.

Across much of the Arab world on Monday, the shoe-throwing incident generated front page headlines and continuing television news coverage. A thinly veiled glee could be discerned in much of the reporting, especially in the places where anti-American sentiment runs deepest.

Muntader al-Zaidi, 29, the correspondent for an independent Iraqi television station who threw his black dress shoes at President Bush, remained in Iraqi custody on Monday.

While he has not been formally charged, Iraqi officials said he faces up to seven years in prison for committing an act of aggression against a visiting head of state.

Hitting someone with a shoe is a deep insult in the Arab world, signifying that the person being struck is as low as the dirt underneath the sole of a shoe. Compounding the insult were Mr. Zaidiâ€™s words as he hurled his footwear at President Bush: â€œThis is a gift from the Iraqis; this is the farewell kiss, you dog!â€

unjonharley · Post by **unjonharley** » Mon Dec 15, 2008 12:05 pm

Mr. Zaidi is a "world" class hero.

I call all to action in an effort for his relese..

DVD Burner · Post by **DVD Burner** » Mon Dec 15, 2008 12:08 pm

Here here!

Laughing Forest · Post by **Laughing Forest** » Mon Dec 15, 2008 12:17 pm

[img]http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g249/ ... shshoe.jpg[/img]

DVD Burner · Post by **DVD Burner** » Mon Dec 15, 2008 12:19 pm

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Mon Dec 15, 2008 1:05 pm

I hope this doesn't fade into oblivion the way the pretzel did.

hsdavis · Post by **hsdavis** » Mon Dec 15, 2008 1:22 pm

theCryptofishist wrote:I hope this doesn't fade into oblivion the way the pretzel did.

This will not fade. This will be a lasting reminder of how this fool screwed up the entire world in such a short time. As he comments on this incident, he still doesn't understand how much he is hated worldwide. He likened this incident to someone giving him the finger as they pass by. This reporter will be know for generations as a folk hero, while that idiot Bush just smirks it off---clueless.

joel the ornery · Post by **joel the ornery** » Mon Dec 15, 2008 1:31 pm

GEORGE W BUSH is so good ..... at being you people's whipping boy.

grow up.

Karlene · Post by **Karlene** » Mon Dec 15, 2008 1:46 pm

I never did buy that "pretzel" thing. I smelled bourbon and branchwater all over that one.

Post by **Elderberry** » Mon Dec 15, 2008 4:03 pm

joel the ornery wrote:GEORGE W BUSH is so good ..... at being you people's whipping boy.

grow up.

Yes he is. But he can't help it. Nobody likes him and he's not that bright a bulb. Hey, look at the shape he is leaving this country in. Don't ever forget--the buck stops with the top 'dog'.

And I don't think you have to be a grown-up to understand that--even kids get it.

JK

DVD Burner · Post by **DVD Burner** » Mon Dec 15, 2008 5:34 pm

Can you imagine how you must feel if you were one that voted for Bush............................TWICE?

LMFAO!

unjonharley · Post by **unjonharley** » Mon Dec 15, 2008 6:08 pm

DVD Burner wrote:Can you imagine how you must feel if you were one that voted for Bush............................TWICE?

LMFAO!

2nite he said "i don't know what the guys beef is"

& VP "ok'd the torture @ getmo"

DVD Burner · Post by **DVD Burner** » Mon Dec 15, 2008 6:11 pm

unjonharley wrote: 2nite he said "i don't know what the guys beef is"

Yeah!

Can you imagine him saying something as insulting as that?

I tell ya, the guy that threw the shoe has bigger balls than any American.
HOW COME BUSH IS NOT CHARGED WITH TREASON YET?

It's now more than obvious he did.

Toolmaker · Post by **Toolmaker** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 1:43 am

DVD Burner wrote:HOW COME BUSH IS NOT CHARGED WITH TREASON YET?

The same reason Clinton was never tried for treason. They're both plutocrats.

DVD Burner · Post by **DVD Burner** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 3:49 am

From someone on Tribe:

It looks like he has practiced that move so many times it is committed to muscle memory. Is it possible he has dodged many a vase hurled by Laura?

Wonder what it must be like to be married to such a fool?

Nope, not really.

DVD Burner · Post by **DVD Burner** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 6:09 am

Official: Shoe-thrower in Iraqi judicial custody

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA â€“ 55 minutes ago

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/art ... wD953QICO0

BAGHDAD (AP) â€” The journalist who threw his shoes at President George W. Bush was handed over to the Iraqi judiciary, an Iraqi official said Tuesday, a move that ordinarily signals the start of criminal proceedings.

Hundreds took to the streets Tuesday for a second day to demand the release of Muntadhar al-Zeidi, who gained folk hero status when he hurled both his shoes at Bush during a news conference Sunday in Baghdad.

Al-Zeidi was initially held by the prime minister's guards and later turned over to the Iraqi army's Baghdad command. The command, in turn, handed him over to the judiciary, the official said on condition of anonymity because he wasn't supposed to release the information.

The official would not elaborate, but referring the case to the judiciary usually signals the beginning of a lengthy process that could end in a criminal trial. Cases referred to the judiciary are given to a judge who reviews the evidence and recommends whether to hold a trial or release the defendant.

Another panel then sets a trial date and appoints judges to hear the case. The process can take months.

Earlier, Interior Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Abdul-Karim Khalaf said al-Zeidi could face charges of insulting a foreign leader and the Iraqi prime minister, who was standing next to Bush when the shoes were thrown. The offense carries a maximum penalty of two years in jail.

Many Iraqis, however, believe al-Zeidi was a hero for insulting an American president widely blamed for the chaos that has engulfed their country since the U.S.-led invasion of 2003.

In Mosul, Iraq's third-largest city, located north of Baghdad, an estimated 1,000 protesters carried banners and chanted slogans demanding al-Zeidi's release.

A couple of hundred more also protested Tuesday in Nasiriyah, a Shiite city about 200 miles southeast of Baghdad, and Fallujah, a Sunni area west of the capital.

"Muntadhar al-Zeidi has expressed the feelings and ambitions of the Iraqi people toward the symbol of tyranny," said Nassar Afrawi, a protester in Nasiriyah.

In Baghdad, Noureddin al-Hiyali, a lawmaker of the main Sunni bloc in parliament, defended al-Zeidi's actions and said he believed the reporter was likely motivated by the invasion of Iraq, the "dismantling of the Iraqi government, destroying the infrastructure," â€” all events he blamed on the Bush administration.

"International law approves peoples' right to resist occupation using all means and Mr. Muntadhar al-Zeidi endeavored to resist occupation in his own manner," al-Hiyali said.

He urged the government to take that into consideration when deciding what to do with al-Zeidi.

The head of the Iraqi Union of Journalists described al-Zeidi's action as "strange and unprofessional" but urged Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to give him clemency.

"Even if he has committed a mistake, the government and the judiciary are broad-minded, and we hope they consider his release because he has a family, and he is still young," Mouyyad al-Lami told AP Television News. "We hope this case ends before going to court."

The perception of al-Zeidi as a hero reflects Arab animosity toward Bush for the 2003 invasion of Iraq and dissatisfaction with the president's handling of foreign policy matters in the Middle East.

That hostility has persisted even though violence has dropped by more than 80 percent in Iraq since earlier this year when car bombings and gunfights throughout the country were rampant.

Nevertheless, Iraqi security forces and U.S. troops continue to be targeted by insurgents.

A roadside bomb targeting an Iraqi police patrol exploded in central Baghdad's Andalus Square Tuesday, wounding three police officers and three civilians, said Iraqi police officer Salam Mohammed.

The U.S. military said in a written statement that troops killed three suspected insurgents and detained three others in separate operations targeting al-Qaida networks in northern Iraq.

Also Tuesday, the U.S. military announced it had transferred the last 10 female detainees in its custody in Iraq to the authorities the day before.

A U.S. statement said the women have either been convicted of a security-related offense or are due to stand trial in the Central Criminal Court of Iraq.

The U.S. still holds about 15,500 detainees, down dramatically from the high of about 26,000 in November 2007.

The U.S.-Iraqi security agreement that goes into effect next month requires the United States to hand over detainees wanted by the Iraqis and release the rest.

DVD Burner · Post by **DVD Burner** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 7:50 am

Ok, now these things are coming out by the bucket loads.

http://bushdodgeseverything.ytmnd.com/

joel the ornery · Post by **joel the ornery** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 8:17 am

things i wonder about...

who will be you people's next scapegoat

DVD Burner · Post by **DVD Burner** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 8:29 am

joel the ornery wrote:things i wonder about...

who will be you people's next scapegoat

ROLMFAO!

He brought it on himself.

Remember, "BRING IT ON" ?

So now everyone is bringin it.

I tell ya, Bush is lucky to be alive at this point.
Shouldn't even be showin his face.

DVD Burner · Post by **DVD Burner** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 9:06 am

Chavez calls Iraqi shoe-thrower courageous

The Associated Press
Published: December 16, 2008

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/12/ ... Tosser.php

CARACAS, Venezuela: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says an Iraqi journalist who tossed his shoes at President George W. Bush was courageous.

Chavez laughed heartily when asked about the incident on state television and called the incident "funny." Referring to the shoe-tosser, he said, "What courage!"

The leftist Venezuelan leader hedged those remarks, however, adding: "At least it didn't hit him, and it's not that one goes around supporting shoe-throwing or anything."

Chavez once famously called Bush "the devil" in a U.N. speech But he said Monday night that Bush "should be congratulated" because he still "has his reflexes." He also said the Iraqi journalist hadn't aimed well.

joel the ornery · Post by **joel the ornery** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 9:06 am

your boorish attitude to the sitting president won't be forgotten anytime soon.