This weekend, President George W. Bush made a surprise visit to Iraq. He announced it as being a sort of farewell visit. An Iraqi journalist decided to give Bush his own style of farewell–by hurling his shoes at Bush during one of Bush’s speeches.
I saw a disturbing interview with Bush on ABC after the incident where Bush acts like his usual pompous self and says of the journalist, “I don’t know what his beef is.” Well, I don’t know either, but there are a number of possible choices:
1. You knowingly lied about the certainty of his country’s possession of WMD
2. You initiated a war that slaughtered thousands of his countrymen based on these lies
3. You initiated what you called, in your own words, a “crusade” that has made life miserable for Muslims
4. You declared a war on science
5. You gave tax breaks to oil companies who have elevated the global warming crisis
6. Your policies of deregulation, along with that terrible war in Iraq, have plunged the entire world into a virtual economic crisis…
Lots of people have beef with you, Mr. President. You’re the worst president in U.S. history, and most of us can’t wait to see you leave office.
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I agree with everything you said. About #1…I think...
I just watched that video clip – and couldn’t stop laughing for several minutes. Bet he didn’t see that coming… but then, he didn’t see a lot of things coming. Ah, the good old shoe chucking insult. Too bad neither struck. Now THAT would have had me laughing for the whole week.
A few more links:
The Christmas version
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What the media left out
http://i243.photobucket.com/albums/ff81/fairhenbane/shoestorm.jpg
http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/12/14/if-the-shoe-fits-duck/
Haha!! That Bush is a quick one! Glad the rest of the blogosphere is getting into this.
The truth is starting to come out:
Muntadhar al-Zaidi’s feelings were influenced by watching the agony suffered by everyday Iraqis. Most of the reporter’s stories focused on Iraqi widows, orphans, and children, said the brother.
Sometimes the 29-year-old journalist would cry. Moved by the tales he reported of poor families, he sometimes asked his colleagues to give money to them. On most nights, he returned to his home in central Baghdad — one of the country’s most violent slums and the epicenter of several of the war’s pitched battles.
Muntadhar al-Zaidi’s reporting for Egypt-based independent television Al-Baghdadia was “against the occupation,” his brother said. The journalist would occasionally sign off his stories “from occupied Baghdad.”
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