Comments on: Where is the Shoe Guy? Beatings, Apologies and Censorship

By: bluebutterfly

bluebutterfly — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 02:26:40 +0000

This is not good. The UN Observer and International Report says that al-Zaidi is well known for his hard hitting reporting on the Americans and the Baghdad Government.

http://www.unobserver.com/inde.....#038;blz=1

By: Blub

Blub — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 01:47:14 +0000

speak up? sounds like emperor no-clothes did speak up… to shutter a newspaper that dared embarass the king. shrub wants him tortured and disappeared, I’m sure

By: tjbs

tjbs — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 01:38:59 +0000

Which one of our goons water boarded him for that apology. Make no mistake about it these GOONS are Nuremburg flunkies and WAR CRIMINALS PERIOD ’bout had my fill of this shit. There are no Iraq war heroes only thugs in the service of scum boy george and can you tell I’ve about had enough of America the beautiful.

By: SouthernDragon

SouthernDragon — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 01:24:48 +0000

The faces of the government have changed, the behaviour has not.

By: lokywoky

lokywoky — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 01:22:55 +0000

You are correct about Chimpy not being able to stand criticism. Examples abound.

In this case however, the possibility/probability that Mr. Muntader al-Zaidi has been beaten and/or tortured in some way to get him to ‘apologize’ cannot be dismissed at this point. The refusal to produce him in open court, or let the ICRC see him is very telling. An apology is not an apology if you have to beat it out of someone.

By: Siun

Siun — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 01:09:08 +0000

Well said Loky … it does seem that that both US and Iraqi security had a role in this.

By: milly

milly — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 01:08:14 +0000

# 16. The last several years, it has seemed to me that everyone who criticized bush in a substantial way would say they were wrong a few days later. Is this a personal characteristic of our chimperor? Just can’t stand criticism and did he just invent another apology?

By: lokywoky

lokywoky — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 01:06:35 +0000

What disturbs me about this incident is that it was Iraqis who subdued him in the press conference when his hand was apparently injured. Then there was some info that he was at Camp Cropper - a prison complex controlled by the US. The US denied they had him in custody. But then there was an announcement that he had been ‘turned over to the Iraqi government for prosecution’.

So, in this instance - I am thinking that everyone’s hands are dirty and the fact that the US is trying to shut the media up about the incident to get attention off it tells me there is really something fishy about the whole affair.

I fear for him. And his family.

By: Siun

Siun — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 00:52:20 +0000

Precisely – I know the family was asking that the ICRC be allowed to see him but no one has been allowed access. As his mother says in the video above, we don’t even know if he is still alive.

By: SanderO

SanderO — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 00:52:13 +0000

…

“The influence on future US economic policy in the hands of Goldman Sachs and Citigroup is alarming, as evidenced by Obama’s appointment of Geithner at the Treasury and now Gensler in a “clean up derivatives” role. They are all linked to Robert Rubin and the whole cabal that made immense fortunes through derivatives trading. And now we should believe that one of them will clean up the mess they themselves made? No, what will happen is that losses are transferrred to the public, while any links to illegal activity will be buried. the boys are taking care of their own.”