We should totally invade that country and show them who is boss.
I expect this kind of stuff from the Guardian, but still, the following opening paragraph in a news article infuriates me:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/dec/15/bush-shoe-protest-iraq
“George Bush didn’t need a primer on Middle Eastern culture to know he was being insulted. Having a pair of shoes lobbed at you and having to cower behind a lectern does not look particularly presidential anywhere.”
Notice the choice of words: “cower behind a lectern.”
Doesn’t sound very presidential, does it? But I’m CERTAIN that the reporter’s choice of words was strictly incidental and unintentional. He had no intention at all of having the historical record distorted to make it appear that our President is some sort of coward. Even though, when you watch the clips, that is clearly not the case.
To me, the President was actually quite admirable in how calmly he handled the situation, and how quickly he ducked. But the Left is so filled with blind hatred for this man, they will not even give him credit for gracefully dodging a shoe.
Funny that he calls GWB a dog and throws shoes at him. Guess that guy is pissed about being free to throw shoes.
Doing that shit under Saddam would have resulted in him having his hands and feet cut off while he was forced to watch Uday and Qusay run a train on this wife, his kids fed to dogs, and any other relatives shot in the face with AK47’s.
Saddam would have drawn that Hi Power or whatever he used to carry and shoot the shoe thrower and whoever else within 10 feet of the bastard.
I heard the shoe thrower squealed like a girl when they drag him away.
That’s bullshit, he dodged that shit like the Matrix! I want him on my dodgeball team. If you can dodge a shoe…
Give credit where credit is due. Oh wait, we’re talking the Guardian here. That would be impossible.
Dude … awesome.
Ok, I want W on my Dodgeball team…
-vs- the Obamination and the Billary team… oooooh that would be a nice day on the court. 
“This is from the widows, the orphans and those who were killed in Iraq.”
wtf:confused:
Who exactly was it that helped put Saddam into power in the first place?
Please do tell. As far as I know Saddam was attending school in Cairo when the Baathists assassinated Brig. Qassim who overthrew King Faisal II. He returned to Iraq upon learning of the revolution going on where he started his conquest by becoming a torturer.
Not President George W. Bush.
Should have had Blackwater there.
- The shoe thrower’s act was disgusting
- The President’s reaction is commendable.
I’m really going to miss him in a few months when the new administration comes in.
damn right brother
TacMedic4450,
That was funny as hell! Nice Austin Power’s ref.
Bush, what can you say? He dodges the douchebag’s stupid stunt and seems to be half grinning about it. I will miss him. You know Gore or Kerry would still have the tread of that guy’s show on his face.
Culturally speaking, it is supposed to be highly insulting. For example, even showing the bottom of your shoe (like crossing your legs while sitting in a chair) is supposedly an insult.
The “shoeter” was trying to show as much disrespect as possible, in the context of his culture.
For throwing his shoes, the idiot got a broken arms and broken ribs with other cuts and bruises.
Alas, if only Brady had instead been hit by a shoe and the Brady Campaign focused on banning certain models of shoes. 
Yes showing Iraqi’s the bottom of your feet is supposed to be one of the most insulting things you can do, and flinging your shoes at someone just expands on that. It’s right there on the list with touching someone with your left hand (Iraqi toilet paper), touching a woman, and walking on a prayer mat with your unwashed infidel feet. Arabs are big on feet being supremely disgusting, which given some of the hygiene habits I witness over there is about right.
What’s funny is here just how backwards and under developed that society is as a whole and how it is exemplified in the curses and insults they use. For example I heard “Saddam donkey” or “Saddam dog”, or I myself being a US Soldier was called a dog or donkey. This was pretty high on the insult list for them. Luckily being highly civilized westerners we were able to retort with such gems as “why don’t you go f### your mother you f###ing Iraqi piece of s###.” Which if you thinking about it, making reference to fornication with ones mother while referring to someone as fecal matter does trump simply referring to someone as a dog or donkey. You should have seen the eyes of the interpreters (Iraqi born Assyrian Christians which make American fundies look tame) when they first heard us talking like that and we told them they needed to translate it into Arabic.
BBC is saying he’s gotten it worse than that: