Since you can't pelt him in person, if you're so inclined, fling some shoes at Bush here. Hopefully some good smelly old dirty ones:
George W. Bush Presidential Library
c/o SMU
6425 Boaz Lane
Dallas TX 75205
Maybe add a nice personal note.
It's the least you can do.
And a side note. I believe you witnessed the end of the Iraq war on Sunday, as the first shoe was in the air. This one moment finally united all Iraqis - Sunni, Shiite and Kurd.
Get out America. Time to go home. It's their country now.
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I went to SMU for my first year in College. It was the bastion of Bushdom:
-Rich Pricks who never earned anything in their lives
-Old Money that only cared about you if you were old money too
-Slutty girls pretending to be "classy"
-Also the home of the famous and insulting, "Affirmative Action Bake Sale" The students sold pastries and other baked goods for different prices depending on what race you were. I guess they were making a good point, but WOW.
Anyway, Eff Bush.
Let's do it!!!
Of course, in the Land of the Weak, Home of the Slave you're likely to get shot by the Secret Service if you try to throw anything at His Majesty, King George.
Ironically, the Iraqi guy was safer throwing his shoes at Bush in Iraq because obviously they wouldn't want to start some international incident. It's much easier to shoot and kill the slaves at home.
Yeah, bring it on!!
I've got some relevant hip hop music for you, Keith:
Don't Stop the Movement - Paris
Is this a preview of the riots to come in American streets?
Seriously Kieth; get off the Bush/hate track; its not productive
Under normal circumstances, a nation might be shocked and outraged at an act such as this. But I believe the USA is collectively LOL!
I believe the Shoe Throwing Incident really strikes at the heart of the War on Terror, and the differences between the Left and Right Wing Viewpoints.
This reporter was famous for issuing reports that decried the plight of innocent women and children harmed in the War. It is clearly a noble and difficult calling for any journalist reporting in a battlezone. But the true evil of terrorism is at the heart of the matter. The war torn areas where women and children are injured have commonly been areas where insurgents hide their weapons, set IED's, instigate urban assaults against Iraqi police and accept funding from Iranian sources.
You have to ask yourself if it is an evil act for an insurgent to hide behind innocent women and children. If the terrorist hides behind a child, do we simply give up and let him win? What about when he kills a child and grabs a second? Do we take the shot and try to disarm him? Or do we simply lose the war? That is the issue here. Who do you blame: the soldier trying to save the second or third child, or the insurgent using the children as a shield?
Don’t you see that it is a question at the heart of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict? That it is at the heart of the attack we suffered on 911? At the heart of the Iraq War? The insurgents hide in residential areas. They dress in civilian clothing. They pretend to be the soldier’s friend until he walks into their trap. They lay IEDs where any innocent person can trigger it – even their own people. And the common people living in those residential areas DON’T THROW THEIR SHOES AT THE INSURGENTS do they?
The reporter blames the Americans. You have to ask yourself these questions, because 911 was nothing compared to the future. Will you simply give up because the enemy has the guts to kill women and children in cold blood? If the enemy hides their weapons in a residential area, do we just let them keep their weapons? Is it evil of Grandma to allow her militant sons to hide their rocket launchers under her couch? You will have to come to grips with these difficult questions at some point in your life. If you have the point of view that it is all the fault of George W. Bush, then you are destined to bow to Mecca, because the enemy will put on his I-Love-NY t-shirt, carry the suitcase aboard a helicopter, fly over time square, hover at 100 yards, and kill your children.
Go ahead, hit me with the typical left-wing moral equivalency arguments. Just remember, why I was right to “throw my shoes” at France, Germany and Russia when they violated the Oil For Food Agreements. Every million Francs funneled to Saddam during the Sanctions period was a knife in the back of a child. That was evil and the left-wing didn’t care. Did not care.
Regardless of what you may have assumed, I thought that the Iraq War was a mistake. I personally believed we should have executed and sustained a much more massive ground war in Afghanistan shortly after 911. We had the moral authority. We had direct evidence of the Taliban’s support of Al Qaeda and those who planned and executed 911. No country on Earth would have second guessed even a permanent US presence in Afghanistan after what happened in Manhattan. Iraq was irrelevant and Saddam Hussein was contained. Nevertheless, I recognize the enemy we are facing in Iraq, because I know the correct answers to the questions above. If you think you can work your way around terrorism with diplomacy in order to avoid these difficult moments, then you are a fool. I know it will happen again, that the enemy will be hiding behind women and children, and that we will have to decide if we will take the shot or simply give up. Here’s hoping that the child’s family throws the shoe at the terrorist next time. Because he is the true disgrace.
you've got it backwards, keith.
had this guy thrown his shoes at Saddam Hussein he would have been sliced apart live and disemboweled, and then his entire town would have been exterminated. That is, in the event Saddam would have even allowed a press conference to happen.
Seems to me that the throwing of the shoes signals a victory for the U.S. in Iraq. This "journalist" was invited to a democratic press conference and had the opportunity throw his shoes at two heads of States: all he'll be penalized with is a simple charge and then let go and possibly fined. Had this happened in America the perpetrator would be thrown in jail for a couple of years for attemped assault or assassination against the president. that's not going to happen to this guy.
yes, Saddam would have executed this guy on the spot and committed mass murder against his village.
so on the contrary, i'd say this event proves that the U.S. has brought Iraq pretty far forward by defeating tyranny in that country.
I agree - the throwing of the shoe is a victory for the Iraqi people - first over Saddam and then over the occupiers
Time for the US to go.
It's Iraq now. Their country. They can f*ck it up if they'd like to, or they can succeed.
But it's their country now. Not ours.
Time to go.
Not yet but we're getting there. We need to stay another three to five years and then we can consider withdrawing, depending on the situation there.
Why is everyone acting like he will be just let off with a fine. He is a dead man. They already beat him to a bloody pulp before taking him away from the press conference. They're going to put a bullet in his head and dump him in an alley somewhere if he is lucky. They might take him to one of the torture chambers located throughout the world and torture him for the next 5 or 10 years. U.S. press will act like he got off, but all the press members there will know he was never seen again. This was a very brave act that cost him his life.
i've had it said...
Not yet but we're getting there. We need to stay another three to five years and then we can consider withdrawing, depending on the situation there.
May we send you the bill?
We are a little tapped out here at the moment.
Anonymous Glenn said...
"...Why is everyone acting like he will be just let off with a fine..."
Because they are dishonest fucks so accomplished at lying to themselves it seems reasonable to them that others will buy it.
To duarte and I've Had It: Your reasoning sucks! If you recall, there were no insurgents/terrorists in Iraq before the US invasion. Actually, Saddam was an enemy of Al Qaida. He was also keeping Iran at bay for the pleasure of America and its friends in the region. Bush's war in Iraq created more terrorists and gave Iran a free hand in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, etc.
If your concern is about morality, then just ask yourselves:
- In the first place, why invade a country--for no good reason and against the will of the international community- and expose your troops to insurgents' attacks, hiding behind children or not?
- If you're so concerned about Iraqi children, why impose the ten-year-long sanctions that every decent observer says they led to the death of thousands of Iraqi babies from starvation and disease?
- Who is to blame for the death of 100's of thousands of Iraqi civilians and the 4,000+ US soldiers and the plight of millions of Iraqi refugees?
- It's now clear that Bush totally wrecked America's economy and the livelihood of millions of Americans (Saddam caused much less suffering to his pple than Bush did to his and to the Iraqis), would you accept that a foreign country sends troops to America to rid us of Bush and his cronies?
You may say that we have democracy and elections to change our leaders. If you believe that elections alone will free us from the military-industrial complex, then you need to go back to school and be better informed.
It's pple like you who need shoes thrown at them, because you encourage genocide and you try to rationalize tyrants' actions and crimes against humanity. The entire world is against your arguments and, like it or not, Bush is a disgraced SOB whose only claim to fame is helping achieve the designs of small-minded bigots like you.
I wouldn't condone nor support any such action directed at the President. Be careful Keith!
duarte:
If your country is invaded, for your own "liberation" with a million of your fellow Americans killed, and your country men are out numbered, out gunned, what would you do to survive and keep fighting?
What would you do, if you are not capable of fighting, to help those who are fighting to drive out the invaders?
How could the insurgencies survive for so long and get stronger in Iraq? They have the support of the local people!
No matter how the US media want you to believe, the fact on the ground over the last couple years proved that, to an average Iraqi citizen, the US troops are the enemy, the trouble makers, the one who ruined their lives, and the "terrorists" are the ones on his side.
Wake up.
Mushroom Cloud.
Questions?
We have an expression in America -- good riddence to bad rubbish.
"...hit by a rifle butt, and one of his arms was broken..."
Certain wank material for some, but while you're stroking yourselves silly...
ask yourself why you're motivated to lie about the consequences for him.
Did you really think it a persuasive argument?
I bet you applaud the financial "rescue" as well. :^D
dear when2puke,
as far as i know, the iraqi people are incredibly grateful for overthrowing the dictator that you supported, along with your good friends the French and the Germans.
sure enough, there are pissed off iraqis. but the majority of those are the Sunnis who lost power. Who do you think went on the suicide bombing campaign, along with Al Qaeda?
There are not hundreds of thousands of dead iraqis due to this war. there are certainly tens of thousands, but not hundreds of thousands. the hundreds of thousands you refer to happened under Saddam Hussein. Again, not a peep out of you and Left for decades while his crimes were happening.
Bush was right about the axis of evil. Absolutely. We all know now that North Korea was working on nukes. Thanks to Jimmy Carter giving them a light water reactor and violating international law they were able to do so. We also now know that Iran has been building a nuke plant..actually, multiple ones. Not much was said about this prior to the axis of evil speech. And we know that Saddam was up to building weapons of mass destruction and violating international law that required him to provide info on his weapons programs
Today the Iraqis, through U.S. military power, have laid the ground work for what is hoped to be the real first arab democracy. There's a great chance they will blow it; people like you will only help to kill off the seed that's been planted.
As for freeing ourselves from a so-called military industrial complex, i'd say the most threatening thing to our society is the flagrant violation of our Federal constitution by the Left...and by the Right. Both liberals/progressive and big govt. conservatives have trashed that document, and with it...America.
The Left however, will stop at nothing to destroy every last vestage of limited govt. power through their erroneous interpretation of the Constitution's preamble that mentions the "general welfare". For them, this means the govt. can do whatever it wants when in reality what it refers to is the general welfare as defined by the articles of the Constitution that come after the preamble.
No, it's not a military industrial complex (gee whiz, i thought that term went awary in the 70's) that is a threat to our country, but the people who have complete disregard for a limited Federal government that is enshrined in our Constitution.
I'll type slower so that you guys can understand.
a) The sanctions didn't work because France, Germany and Russia were violating the Oil for Food Agreements! You remember them? They were the three votes on the UN Commission that voted against the War. Every violation was a knife in the back of a child - and you still don't care - still don't blame those countries.
b) I was against the Iraq War! I even protested it. Still, Saddam violated the cease fire agreement more than one hundred times before Bush took office, so legally, the Persian Gulf War never ended. It was the reason why Clinton was able to bomb Iraq and kill children. Iraq was in violation of the cease-fire.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENAV_UoIfgc
c) if my country was invaded, how would I survive? I would do what the colonists did in the Revolutionary War. (talk about one of the big lies about America...sheesh). It was a revolution, by the way, not an invasion, since the colonies were the legal property of England.
The colonists had formed militias in advance of the revolution. They even made uniforms. The British outlawed the uniforms in fear of organized rebellion, but the colonists were still armed. When the call went out that the Red Coats were coming, the militias grabbed their weapons, LEFT HOME, GOT OUT OF THE WAY OF THE WOMEN AND CHILDREN, AND ATTACKED THE BRITISH IN SQUADS. The militias even left British noblemen, who lived in the colonies, alone - as they shouted "the King will see you all hang" out of the windows of their palatial estates. The colonists named one man the General over all the revolutionary forces (I forget his name but he was the father of our country) and designed uniforms as soon as possible. They were quite meager, because the colonists didn't have any money. In fact, they completely ran out of uniforms (especially, shoes) at Valley Forge. If you remember - but probably not.
It could have gone down differently. The colonists could have stayed in their homes and hid behind their wives and children, or flown to England and killed a couple thousand innocent people. It may have worked better, because people like you could have said, the Londoners had it coming.
When you ask me, what would I do if my country were invaded, you are insinuating that it's acceptable to hide behind the children (because, ostensibly, I have no choice). I would not hide behind the children, because i'm not a coward - or a terrorist. Neither are you. That's why you don't have it coming.
The Iraqi Police are the true heroes. They wear uniforms. They are not American. They carry out ivasions and disarmament operations entirely without US intervention, now. The press in Iraq have been largely unsympathetic of the Iraqi police. The lives are constantly threatened. Their families are threatened (and murdered). Huge numbers of them were attacked the first time they went to collect their pay. (remember that? oh, of course not, because the news didn't report it). And they have the support of some but not all Iraqis.
e)I'm all for throwing the shoes at Bush. He's a reckless fool. I hope he gets his butt kicked. But I also know to blame the French, German, Russians and the insurgents who hide behind the children. I also blame Saddam Hussein, for actually using chemical weapons, holding televised fund raisers for the families of Palestinian suicide bombers (they served cake!), and firing missiles at the Americans in violation of the Cease Fire Agreement over 100 times.
Don't let self-loathing and hatred of America wash over you. The worst is yet to come.
So what are you all going to say when it's Prez Obama ducking the shoe/rock/book/bottle? Encouraging incivility is a downward spiral. The Arabs don't hate Bush - they hate Americans.
Next...
"...I'll type slower so that you guys can understand...
...Don't let self-loathing and hatred of America wash over you..."
WELL DONE in the space of one post; taunt in a pissy manner and then claim the other guy's a hater.
PFFFFFFT.
yeah, yeah, i apologize, they were right, America is guilty of genocide and encouraging genocide. Wow, and I thought they hated America. I was just being blind. What am I thinking. Note to self: "when the enemy kills children, blame self and give up."
Thanks for setting me straight, anonymous.
AM I THE ONLY ONE TO REMEMBER THE DUD GRENADE SOMEONE THREW AT BUSH SOME WHAT..SEVEN YEARS BACK?
IF HE STILL OWNS THOSE SHOES HE "MISTAKENLY" THREW...THERE IS A TWENTY MILLION REWARD POSTED BY THE SAUDIS FOR THEM?
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