Incredible…you are actually defending an assault against a President of the US, or at the very least concerned about this jerk. If this was done to Sadam, you honestly think he would be alive right now? Ridiculous post.

This sickens me and I suspect I’m not alone in that.

This guy undoubtedly knew that he was gonna get the shit pounded out of him before he tossed the leather- braver than our press corp by miles

it may be several days/weeks before he can be shown in public if he lives that long.

Inadvertently deleted. Destroyed in copying. Died in captivity.

If you are going to phone about this, his full name is Muntader al-Zaidi

They are modeling their judicial system after GWBs amerikan fascist system.

I’m guessing eight days will do it.

Thanks for making calls folks – while the Iraqi Embassy is not very responsive (and their media officer has still not gotten back to me with a statement) they are noticing the calls.

neither of those numbers will do any good, imo. try red crescent or un or int’l civil rights groups. our gov’t is dead and so is the iraqi puppet gov’t.

They’ll learn him to love Big Brother.

why? My guess is he mighta had a shiner a bit bigger than Dana’s. And no make-up.

Eight days is enough for most bruising/swelling to go down.
This is a truly brave man. He knew exactly what would/could happen and still he made his statement..I hope he is going to be alright..

In a letter to the editor today someone described Bush as ‘the artful dodger’

Is Amnesty International doing any thing on this one? The IRCC? Also, how about starting a campaign of religious leaders pressuring Bush to ask for tolerance and forgiveness–so timely at this point in the year?

I like lame-ducker myself.

if i had to guess.. it was unplanned. seeing the swager and smirk of the shrub probably pushed him over the edge.

One of the ways to protect someone is to make it clear to those in charge that people have not forgotten and are paying attention.

Often – clearly not always – governments decide it is too embarassing to keep torturing, etc and make a gesture … when they keep getting calls and letters.

This is one of the key ways Amnesty International has had so much effect for individual cases – make the govt in question notice that the world is watching carefully.

I prefer criminal in chief

What are the procedures to address this to the International Criminal Court to assert jurisdiction and protection of the International Charter of Human Rights for Muntader al-Zaidi. This must qualify for an emergency hearing.

your right, of course. i just have no faith in our gov’t to do the right thing even under pressure.

Also White House Comment fax #: 202 456-2461

I suggest faxing a sheet decorated with Christmas angel, asking Bush to exercise forgiveness and intercede for al Zaidi. (And before you pelt me with derisive comments, think of it as a marketing strategy, not airy-fairy optimism.)

While I really have a great deal of sympathy for Al Zaida I have to wonder how many times a day does the criminal enterprise in Israel do this.

i have no problem with that. he is supposed to be a man of god. well, he says so despite his actions.

Ridiculous comment. What has Saddam got to do with it? Or is Saddam now the benchmark for US Presidents?

er … that was in response to Kurt @ #1

don’t think anyone here at the lake has the guts to tackle that problem. too high profile.

kurt has been out if the country and might be slightly misinformed.

I’d just note that we’ve been covering the blockade of Gaza and I’m working on a new update for later this week. I will be doing further reports on Palestinian issues as well.

@ 1 is a TROLL, DO NOT FEED

okay. i’ll bet that currenet news will be the extent of it. not your fault.

kurt has NEVER been out if the country and might be slightly misinformed.

Small adjustment, no charge ;-)

If, as seems likely, Maliki had the journalist tortured or even executed, he is in one deep pile of shit. There is going to be a lot of shots for Habeas corpus, and if all they can come up with is a couple of detached fingers and toes, there will be hell to pay in the Middle East, and Maliki won’t be the last person to face it.

Very nice! I agree.

they got Habeas corpus in iraq? hell, we don’t even have that here.

“That means my brother was severely beaten and they fear that his appearance could trigger anger at the court,”

new iraqi govt playing by 63 dallas rules? smacks of lee harvey’s treatment before ruby got to him.

New post upstairs

which makes him a hero in my eyes.

IF…a “protester’s” bones are broken and a camera is there to record it (accompanied by the screams of agony), but the MSM lowers the audio and cut the video before it plays thru, was the man still brutalized even before they got him out of the room?

Listen / watch closely: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVH6tVKKwCo

And the jester dances on….

Kurt, we don’t lower our standards to those practiced by the scum of the earth. We pressure them into raising theirs.

Learn this.

Thanks Lou … we used a version of the video last night that was pretty clear – Bush smirked throughout of course.

Has anybody commented about the fact that this guy got off two shoes at the Pres. before the secret service got in front of Bush. Somebody got to take a shoe for the Pres. What if those suckers were steel toed ?

When we can. Good point.
On the other hand, there’s nothing really nice about throwing your shoes at someone, even someone not really nice.

It was shoes pal, they’re not deadly weapons, and it was against a friggin’ war criminal who invaded his country and killed hundreds of thousands of innocent women,children,old men. Think the shoe might be on the other foot if this had somehow been a mirror situation in the US?

Dubya was the American President? I thought he stepped down after he started violating his oath of office?

I wonder which is the greater disgrace…defending the human rights of someone who threw some loafers at a man who has killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqis…or defending the man that killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqis?

And I’d imagine that Kurt and his ilk would be showering praise on al-Zaidi if he had thrown his shoes at Saddam, despite the fact that Saddam was President of Iraq. No praise for dishonoring the office in that case. It would be the MAN that was disgraced. Why not here?

“The Shoes Heard ‘Round The World!”

Probably another reason he was beat as badly as it seems. Secret Service was way late and they wanted retribution. I’ll bet some of the SS agents heads will fry.

Looking in late, something struck as being out of place.

No commentator writes “MILLION PLUS” Iraqi deaths, only hundreds of thousands, as if the denial of all those additional deaths will somehow atone for the evil done by AMERICANS, waving their sacred FLAG, spreading DEMOCRACY and DepletedUranium about as if it were holy dust.

This is just another example of a country so far removed from the reality of what it is, if it were a person, they would be institutionalized. This is even the more aware of the population. You should get a mirror that does not lie to you to see yourselves. Humbug, the lot of you.