davidylan:

Al Zaidi . . . stone Talabani with your shoe and lets see how much of a hero you really are . . .

why doesnt he stone muqtada al sadr? No more shoes in the market?

debosky:

Without Bush's intervention, how would Talabani have become president? Even Al Sadr wouldn't have his popularity with some Iraqis if not for the American invasion. If he wanted to target those, then there is no better person to throw shoes at than Bush - he's the one holding those puppets up. Without the US support, they would never win any elections.

Besides, Bush is the foreigner who poked his nose in, not Talabani or Al Sadr.

chidichris:

bush in a couple of weeks will join the other past american presidents on the path of history and obama will come online.
he was against invassion so let us see his approach but i will assure you, it is no longer going to be business as usual.
america will never go back to negotiation table with terrorists.
afghans can now enjoy all the benefits they were deneied of by the talibans and no one is saying thanks to bush.
sooner than later, irqis will start enjoying the benefits of democracy and maybe no one will be here to celebrate bush.
if anyone is saying that bush's response to the 9/11 attacks was not good, then i pray he become a victim or his family member becomes one so that we can learn from him how to react to terrorists attacks.
no one is bold enough to say GO to mugabe till date. africans have choosen negotiation and that is paying off to them from the way people are dying day by day from different courses yet we are saving the people from war.
let us see what will happen at the end of the day.
how many lives were saved in liberia by bush's ultimatum to charles taylor? no one is interested. the very best way to save peoples'lives is by loosing lives and that is exactly what bush did in afghanistan and iraq so let us see how obama will save lives.
one more thing is that some wars are unavoidable so the earlier you prepare your mind and go for it the better for you.

debosky:

Fair enough, but who says he won't be killed now? I'm sure he's been tortured already for 'embarassing' Maliki. It's not very different in the end. Torture andextra-judicial killings continue in Iraq, even today.

Reagan forgot to duck. Bush didn't. It's unforgettable television that, upon reflection, appears to sum up the man and his presidency.

Watch the video. From behind we see the Shoe Thrower lurch up, ragged and uncouth, doing his best to reinforce all negative stereotypes of angry Muslim fundamentalists. He yells, "This is a goodbye kiss from the Iraqi people, dog!" and unleashes the shoe, hard, straight at Bush's head. The shoe moves fast, with good rotation, perfect for a bloody nose. And, without batting an eye, Bush ducks a foot and a half. What was about to nail him on the schnoz sails harmlessly into the backdrop.

Then, wait. This is the strange part. There's no mass tackling of the Shoe Thrower, no Secret Service agents diving across the stage to take a Nike for America. For a beat the Shoe Thrower owns the room. And--my favorite part--Bush does NOT hit the deck. Instead he pops back up to normal height. His face is cagey and attentive, on full alert like a basketball defender. He's little bewildered, but not paralyzed. Instinct consumes him. It looks as if he realizes this is incredible, amazing stuff, a must-see event, history unraveling before him. Maybe some Texas bravado wriggles in. Maybe he feels assassination coming and is determined to watch it in. He has to see how this ends.

In this situation, Bush loses no dignity by crumbling to the floor in the fetal position. We expect this of our presidents--it's the rational thing to do. It's what I would do, and what I hope my friends and family would do. But Bush stands there, a sitting duck, waiting, just as intrigued as we are. He does not take over. He is not in control. Like his presidency, Bush's staredown looks foolhardy and counterproductive, but here a corner of my gut roots for him hard. Bring em on, indeed.

The other shoe drops. Good rotation, and thrown hard, but it sails on him. Bush flinches, raises his hand, but it's not a full duck. He's seen major league pitching. This guy doesn't have it. Finally, the other reporters in the room awaken and move to collar the Shoe Thrower. A little while later, Bush adds the mandatory quip: "All I can report is a size 10."

It's a strange capstone to a presidency, one of those semi-absurd semi-scary incidents like the pretzel-choking, the back-shooting, the bike-crashing. Yet somehow those ten seconds seem to say everything about the man, about guts and intelligence, humor and luck, the dangerous world Bush has helped make worse. For what the world hopes to be the last time, we've watched the man do just enough to keep himself afloat
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There were 15 Saudis among the 19 hijackers and zero (okolo, nought) Iraqis, yet the despicable Saudi government was shielded from the wrath of the American Killing Machines, and Iraq was turned to a theater of violence with hitherto unknown/uninvited guests, like Alqaeda, running the show and directing the scenes of unimaginable mayhem and gore!

There must've been a Second Shoe-ter

tharma:

I think some people think that democracy is what everybody want. These people in the middle east are not interested in democracy. And it will be very difficult for them to be govern by democratic means. There is no way Arabs will have democracy. They just don't like it. Right from the begining of Islam, not long ago after the death of the Prophet (PBUH) they abandoned the voting systems and decide to go back to monarchy. Anybody familiar with Islamic system of governance will tell u that, Islam does not recognize mornachy, but majority of Arab world have mornachy system of government. Iraqis are not intersted in democracy. And they don't want it.

tharma:

The animosity between the different clans in Iraq is morethan the one the Ibo people have for Northerners.

carmelily:

The grammatical bullet in the topic pi$$ed me off too. i didn't even want to contribute. Real trashy English.

Kobojunkie:

roflmao!!! you sure?? lol

luvlawyer:

Bush stoned with shoe LOL
More like, shoes thrown at bush! ma friiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiennnnnnnnnnnnndddddddd!!!

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congoshine:

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Tayo-D:

@RichyBlack,
Of the 19 terrorists, 15 were Saudis. Of the 19 terrorists, 19 were muslims. Going by your "logic" then, the US would be justified to consider all muslims enemies? Talk about simplifying a very complex matter.

tharma:

Forget about these mumu idiots that think na big english-grammer make person educated. When the highly, educated, academic and industrially intellectualy brainy, english speaking Nigerian when to the short legged, arm throwing, '419' copy-right, kung-fu chinese to design their satellite I wonder which grammer they used to explain to them

Well, if you're trying to justify Bush's invasion of Iraq with the Sept. 11 attacks then you're an infinite slowpoke! I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and hope you're not trying to justify the stupidity of your mentor!

Now, about the logic of my argument. If you don't understand an argument why not ask questions instead of marching down the wrong path. My reasoning was simple; if Bush and his henchmen were looking for nations to invade (not members of some religion to fight) then Saudi Arabia should have been next on the list after Afghanistan. My discourse was on the senselessness of invading Iraq for an attack she had absolutely nothing to do with! The argument was restricted to countries not religions.

However, you, in your consistent inability to understand minutiae, disregarded the restriction on nations and introduced religion as the new context. Following this kind of irresponsible and dangerous logic of yours, which fails to consider the context in which an argument is made, I quote you:

Of the 19 terrorists, 19 were muslims men. Going by your "logic" then, the US would be justified to consider all muslims men enemies . . . Talk about simplifying obfuscating a very complex simple matter."