throws shoe at Bush

An Iraqi television news reporter threw his shoes at U.S. President George W. Bush and called him a "dog" in Arabic, during a press conference in Baghdad on Sunday, U.S. television station ABC has reported.

Iraqi security officers and U.S. secret service agents leapt at the man and dragged him struggling and screaming out of the room where Bush was giving a news conference with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.

The shoes missed their target about 15 feet away. One sailed over Bush's head as he stood next to Maliki and smacked into the wall behind him. Bush smiled uncomfortably and Maliki looked strained. Advertisement


"It doesn't bother me," Bush said, urging everyone to calm down as a ruckus broke out in the conference room.

When asked about the incident shortly after, Bush made light of it. "I didn't feel the least threatened by it," he said, adding: "Whoever it
interests - it was a size ten that he threw at me."

In Arab cultures being attacked with shoes is a sign of profound disrespect, as is being compared to a canine.

Bush on Sunday made a farewell visit to Iraq, a place that defines his presidency, just 37 days before he hands the war off to a successor who has pledged to end it.

Air Force One landed at Baghdad International Airport in the afternoon, after a secretive Saturday night departure from Washington and an 11-hour flight. In a sign of modest security gains in this war zone, Bush was welcomed with a formal arrival ceremony - a flourish that was not part of his previous three trips to Iraq.

Bush planned a quick series of meetings with senior Iraqi leaders, including Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. He and Bush were marking the recent security agreement between the two nations.

Bush's national security adviser, Stephen Hadley, said the agreement was a remarkable document - unique in the Arab world because it was publicly
debated, discussed and adopted by an elected parliament.

Hadley said the trip shows "that we are moving into a different relationship... with Iraqis rightfully exercising greater sovereignty, we in an increasingly subordinate role."

It was Bush's last trip to the war zone before President-elect Barack Obama takes office Jan. 20. Bush's most recent Iraq stop was over 15 months ago, in September 2007.

Most respectable US president??_. Har har har

HAHAAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! WHAT!!! HE GOT A SHOE THROWN AT HIM—?


HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

That made my morning 😄

Bush sure has fast reflexes lol. Damn that man should've had better aim 😛.

Bush jogs alot, he's in great reflexive shape! ..impressed too. 😉

..seriously, that was embarrassing, i hope they jail the guy. For me messages are lost in any type of violence or aggression. That whacked the wall behind him pretty hard!

I hope they jail bush he is a war criminal anyway...


Virgogotme I??ll send you a private message later, right now I am so damn busy, sorry mate.

Fallstar..

I am with you on this buddy.

The freak mother fucker has said....?? It doesn't bother me?? question is... what bothers him..??

Any disgruntled person can throw a shoe if they're angered enough, no real guts from my pov. Thankfully, it was only a shoe, could've been something far worse! i always get a bit nervous when dignitaries travel abroad (especially to the mid-east), and i had a feeling about this one. People will remember the shoe for their own reasons, but what was the guy really angered about? Will it make any difference? Bush had joked some, because he was nervous & likely wanted to save face, what else was he going to do? ..really. He was clearly startled, and i think he handled it well. Nowadays, i think it takes MORE guts just being a politician, nevermind a nations top CEO..LOL!

not to defend bush..... but its ironic that under saddam he wouldn't have even had the freedom to attempt such an action and would be dead already.lol

mystic_fish

It's not an article about how stupid or ass kisser you can be.

You would throw bomb on the bastard if you personal value, family members, life investment, country and your future got destroyed by this bastard..


http://www.dxpnet.com/opinion/messages.asp?id=1510979<BR>


Do you ever READ or you are just a cold senseless FISH with the keyboard..??..??

yeah....i read that he had his reasons.......if we could all only walk a mile in each others shoes the world would be a better place for it 🙂

sorry, but i'm trying to look at both sides, and not just the violent one. i doubt if i'm the only one. If he had and gun and assassinated the president, would everyone still applaud. Where does it stop, why can't this man be able to express his anger in ways that may really count and make a difference. He shouldn't have to be forced to his knees in the first place to have a voice.. Sometimes you do have to reach and look a bit further out..

"That takes guts. A lot of it."

He has apologized for his ugly act, I heard ?

The US President "Victim" of Iraq's "Weapons of Mass Destruction? should have been said.

Honestly... do you realize what you're saying..??

Total of 18 years of illegal sanctions/embargos then 2 wars and destruction of Iraqis infrastructure and murdering more than 2 millions of innocent civilian in addition to a total of 6 million refugees by the American led (invasion/destruction) forces and foreign policies?

Releasing more than 800 tons of radio active material around the area causing deaths and other deformations to new born babies is civilised but throwing pair of shoes at the bastard is uncivilized?

What are you?.. really..?

He has apologized for his ugly act, I heard

He never did, the new puppet Iraqi prez said that.

Why does the world hate the US?

We are spreading our theocracy (oops, democracy) as fast as we can. There is a waiting list of oil-rich countries that are waiting for our kind and benevolent leaders to liberate them.

i know it's "ONLY" a shoe (physically).. But to the guy who threw it, obviously there is no "just" or justice.. Deep down after the "hilarious" 5 seconds is over, who is really going to be there to pick up from the aftermath. Haven't these people been through enough? i don't really care to be entertained and i don't think it's that hilarious, and i bet neither the guy who threw the shoe.. It's not just "about" the shoe. Anyway, we're all entitled to our own opinion, i could say a few things too, but will leave it there..lol

Xun3

Come one, if you continue like this, she??ll get back and WILL zap us with another quiz things.

I personally hold no grudge against anyone, but misinformed arrogant are irritating especially those who are attempting to ignore the obvious intentionally.

I CAN examine both sides of a situation, and still remain objective. Everyone shares in what happened here, and everyone is responsible for their own actions, past, present, future.. From the political to the personal. Like many have said, and for many extenuating reasons, (important) it *WAS* an ugly incident, ANY way you look at it.

..pretty obvious to me.

At least i stay on-point, and don't call other posters' arrogant (because i don't laugh & find it so obviously simplistic or racist because i abhor any kind of violence). yeah, i know, i know, it was ONLY a shoe, now why didn't i think of that?..LOL

Can we move on... please.

You people are much too genteel, Bush deserves to be buried to his neck in an ant hill for his great leadership. The Iraqi man was merely using his newly acquired freedom of speech to express himself, bless his sole...

At the risk of getting my head bitten off::::

Id rather live next door to George Bush than those fanatics who are bred to hate us in the west from the day they are born.

ditto for me, dogsbody, i feel the same way.

"Killing and maiming was going on long before the US was in Iraq. Let's not forget that."

..good point too, nov-scorp. It seems to be almost a way of life over there, sadly.

I agree with softcookie.


All bush has ever done is thrown shoes at America. Think about it.

well then we should all throw shoes at people we dont like.......i guess thats better than grenades 😉

Jesus will come down soon and solve the problem! I just know it!

u might be waiting for a while......🙂

I was totally kidding🙂

There arent enough shoes LOL

Xun, obviously you are trying to cause trouble, if i were racist, why am i one of Obama's biggest supporters?

The thread IS about the shoe, so i'm commenting ABOUT the shoe.

OF COURSE, everyone hates whats going on in the war on the bigger scheme of things, that goes without saying. Besides where's your big speech on (BOMBS thrown in Iraq BY BUSH.)

..call me a racist one more time, and DXP WILL know about it. What's really worse than calling someone a racist who isn't-that really hurts Xun, and i don't take it lightly. Grow up. Again, for the second time, can we please move on..

You are not a racist; you are just ignorant and arrogant...

Yeah, well you are rude beyond measure and ignorant, Q.

I along with many others threw a shoe at the Israeli embassy today during the protests on Gaza attended by approximately 12,000...It felt great..it's become quite symbolic across the world..Way to go! It's a contemptuous act..and I think the guy was well within his rights to do so.

And whoever said that it is in-built to hate the west, have a read of this and educate yourself..such a simple statement to make..

Why do they hate the west so much, we will ask

Love you mismoral.. you are my kind of lady

Thank you.

🙂

Yeah, well you are rude beyond measure and ignorant, Q.

One word??_


JUSTICE.

JUSTICE from the lynch-squad mentality, yeah whatever you say, Q. You remind me of one of those dictators, who only tolerates others if their in agreement. Learn some tolerance, not everyone is going to agree with you. So what if i have my own opinion, as you have yours; get over it (it's a forum). Your brand of justice i could do without. Thank you.

~mystic_fish

Excuse me.. are you on drug or something..?


How could you ignore the realty and pretending nothing happened? Can you ever imagine the death of 2,5 million for the OIL..??

I told you once it is OK to be uninformed but ignorant and arrogant is a disease belongs to North American populations.

Controlled by the Zionist main stream media..

If you ever dare to see the truth turn of your radio and tv and follow me.

Exuse me, you must be the one on drugs if you think i don't empathize with innocent lives lost (whatever the nation or country).

In the meantime, here's a reality check for you:
Don't let your (extreme) hatred of Bush blind you to the fact that our own troops, mine included are also dying daily, those that have lost their own son's, husband's, daughter's.

Don't forget about 911, nobody forced the terrorists and militants to take down the twin towers, and it surely wasn't the american's fault.

Echoing, once again the thoughts of another poster, ...middle-easterners (terrorists forever in-training) were born and bred to hate us from the get-go, long before the war ever began.

Everybody's hurting, Q ..