Nice to see that after all this time, Commander McFlightsuit is still completely clueless about the country he liberated invaded.
Also odd was Bush’s complete refusal during his exchange with reporters on Air Force One to acknowledge any anger or unhappiness in Iraq or the Muslim Middle East with the invasion he ordered and its aftermath.
"I don’t think you can take one guy throwing shoes and say this represents a broad movement in Iraq," Bush said in response to a question. "You can try to do that if you want to. I don’t think it would be accurate."
Hmmm.
Well for one, there’s that thing called the "insurgency" which has taken the lives of about 4,000 Americans. And there’s this poll from 2006 that indicated 61% of Iraqis favored insurgent attacks on Americans.
Still, we can’t be absolutely mathematically certain that broad Iraqi support of a violent insurgency seeking to eject us from their country by killing lots of our troops is representative of the same sentiment expressed by throwing shoes at the man who sent them there.
So maybe W. has a point.
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Bush and Cheney should try a victory parade in a convertible outside the green zone.
not the sharpest tool, but the most dangerous…
As long as he shovels some money towards Detroit and he’s gone on 20 Jan I don’t give a rat’s ass what Shrub believes.
My mamma says she loves me, but she could be jivin’ me too.
Hey! What’re we doing here at this time of day?!
A dull knife will do more damage to the wielder than a sharp one. Shrub is stabbing at rocks and can’t figure out why he’s bleeding.
I’m home for lunch. Work 6 blocks from home. Love these 2 hour lunches.
Okay, pop quiz. What do these folks have in common? Imelda Marcos, Richard Reid, Old Woman with So Many Children, and Muntadar al-Zeidi?
Speaking of which, it’s time to go back to the quarry.
Booyah!
Shoes?
I digg shoes
Isn’t there a Bagdad market that’s perfectly safe? Absitively, posolutely safe?
ding, ding, ding!
hah! reminds me of this line from the ever awesome Alan Rickman:
Oh! You must be union. :P
The Million Shoe March
The net is just full of comedy about the really big shoe this morning. Old one-liners that refer to shoes are being recycled everywhere to good effect, and a few Republican Patriots are weighing in with steel-toed jackboots of their own. Stiletto heels for Condoweezie? LMAO!
But here’s the real punch line: let’s all send Bush a shoe or two for Christmas. Here’s the address:
President George W. Bush
1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW
Washington, DC 20500
Extra props for manure-encrusted farm boots lolz.
-Studs
a tool never the less
Too bad the shoe thrower wasn’t a quadruped…
Proud card carrying Wobbly.
Please enjoy Eddie Murphy’s Mother’s shoes!
“I stepped up on the platform
The man gave me the news
He said, You must be joking son
Where did you get those shoes?
Where did you get those shoes?”
Steely Dan, Pretzel Logic
Boomerang stilleto heels. That’s some serious shoe throwin’.
I’m still dazzled he got off two shoe shots!
I just love that clip. After recovering from the shock and awe of this journalist, it’s the first thing that came to my mind. EM’s ice cream truck routine is verrry funny also. But I digress.
It was great that the shoe tosser ruined anything Bush had to say about the progress in Iraq.
So Caroline Kennedy is going to campaign for the NY Senate seat, according to the NY TImes and Mrs. Allen Greenspan on MSNBC.
support Muntadar al Zaida if he is still alive. send in the red crecent and the UN to demand humane treatment. let’s get him a lawyer.
If GWB is so well loved there why did he buy a house in the US. We sure don’t love him here.
I agree. Set up a defense fund as show of support. And considering all the legal-types hangin’ at the Lake…….Just sayin……
Apparently he is a hero in Iraq. I wonder if the realize he is also a hero here?
I suppose all the people in the streets are cheering GWB. /s
someone has to do somethin for the guy. he is my hero. can you imagine the guts it took?
Finally — a worthy nominee for the Medal of Freedom.
A “shoe thrower defense fund” for this guy set up in the US would not be worth very much, evan as a symbolic gesture.
More needed is pressure from his employer in Egypt and the rest of the Muslim world and Red Crescent in forcing the Iraki GZG to allow access to him and eventually release him.
Hit and run from NH.
Still tens of thousands without power. Including me.
We have unseasonably mild weather today so that is quite the respite from the cold.
More rain and colder weather coming the next few days. Some power may not be restored till Friday or later.
Family and friends are all safe.
-G
OT and maybe old news, but Illinois AG asking for injunction to remove Blagojevich from office and prevent him from appointing Senate replacement or doing any other governorish things (per WaPo).
EPU’d:
“This is David Shoe-ster reporting from Baghdad.”
Do you think that there should be a “Free the Shoethrower” initiative by the Clintons as SOS following Janaury 20, assuming that they get confirmed as SOS. Or should the Shoethrower be transferred to Gitmo? Did he not commit a crime against the President of the United States?
Wow, you’re all pumped up, aren’t you?! *g*
Pardon the Shoethrower!
-G
Oh Hush, Puppy.
i hope that happens. but, if it doesn’t his family should have help for his funeral. that would be the least we could do. yes?
I wrote about the Bush-Raddatz interview in an oxdown diary. I think Bush’s disconnect from reality is a feature not a bug.
And NPR just reported that thousands in Sadr City were demonstrating against the US and demanding al Zaidi’s release.
As a matter of fact, I think he should be freed as soon as possible. And it would not surprise me if Clinton as SoS pushed for him to be freed.
Showing contempt for the president of the US is not a crime and I’d say she knows that far better than most.
how do you have internet access? work?
Damn. I was just there again and got out as the storm was hitting. Was on a plane that day with David Axelrod on the way back (didn’t get to talk to him sadly…I was in back he was last on and first off).
Best of luck!
Will he live that long? Looked to me as though his cries were due to being kicked while on the floor.
Take good care. Sounds miserable…
Studs at 17, great minds think alike
http://kevinswoodshed.blogspot…..s-guy.html
Since we can’t all get close enough to throw them, send Dubya your oldest,smelliest, most dogshit encrusted sneakers.
and I’d love, love, love to see about 4200 pairs of empty combat boots on the White House lawn one morning
Always, punaise, we can count on you!
Well, I was more thinking along the lines of a symbolic gesture because I know nothing of Iraqi law on this matter. But in that light, I recall that Bachmann’s comments on the tube resulted in hundreds of thousands being raised literally overnight for her opponent. I’m sure he appreciated the money but there was also much symbolic impact too.
gee, do ya suppose this could be that international event that brings those disparate factions together against a common enenmy?
Well, that’s a Croc. /s
a repeat from Late Nite: Bush is that assholed loafer.
OMG. He has an Egyptian employer? That’s not good. That’s another guvmint that regularly dissappears shoe throwers and other perpetrators of petty dissent.
nothin symbolic about helpin fer his funeral is there?
on the second throw he was attempting a Rebonk.
I just heard on NPR that thousands of Iraqis were protesting for the relief of al Zaida from custody. The report mentioned that some had thrown shoes at U.S. soldiers, who had ignored them. I hope Bush’s idiotic “victory lap” doesn’t end up setting off a whole new round of violence.
Iraq TV demands release of Bush shoe attacker
If the shoethrower had done his shoethrowing at a Whitehouse press conference in DC, it certainly could be claimed the shoethrower committed, inter alia, the crime of assault. Maybe there is a conspriacy here as well. I assume the shoethrower commtted the subject assault in the green zone. I understand the US asserts jurisdiction over the green zone. Maybe the showthrower should be extradicted by the Bush administration. Thinking of the shoethrower as just another bad guy, at least Bush suggested as much, why does “Iraq” have custody?
Now we are all shoe flingers.
Speaking of Legal Defense Funds bmaz cross post upstairs.
Clearly what Dubbya needs is a Visit from the Shoe Fairy!
Lucky for Shrub, El Bandito Hush Perrito wasn’t a Kiss fan:
http://www.hollywoodstandups.c…..immons.jpg
you ain’t seen nothin yet. that place is about to explode. worst thing the shrub could have done is rub it in their face. poor bastard.
let’s all dip our shoes in purple ink.
(now that’s “voting with our feet”…)
He dodged those shoes like they were Vietnam.
“A broad movement in Iraq”..huh? What is he talking about? Did no body translate for him? Does he not know that he just got called out on the deaths he has caused by his illegal invasion and occupation?
Who advised him to actually have the audacity to tell the Iraqis that the war isn’t over and that it was necessary?
Please charge this demented fool with war crimes. Maybe Petraeus would testify against him to save his own butt. He knows that war crimes are being committed in Iraq /Afghanistan on a daily basis. He said in his Counter Insurgency Manual of 2006, under the heading The Law of War/ D12, that:
One of the four Geneva Conventions of 1949..the Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War..becomes a prominent source of law during occupation.
http://www.npr.org/documents/2…..manual.pdf
You people don’t get it. George Bush had no reason to go into Iraq. He did it becausae of the Jewish that control our government. He wouldn’t be so foolish to do somehting on his own. As we speak the Israeli are pumping oil from Iraq to Haifa. Do you think Israel had nothing to do with the invasion? Pumping Iraqi oil. It’s probably free oil. Thanks once again Israel. Once again Israel has proven it was responsible for another war. They sit back and they get free oil.