Posted on 12/17/2008 10:27:46 PM PST by STARWISE
"He's lucky he didn't try something like this under Saddam Hussein."
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Ambassador Samir Sumaida’ie:
Mr. Muntader al-Zaidi is very lucky that it was Mr. Bush and Mr. Maliki and not Saddam Hussein. Because, had it been Mr. Saddam Hussein you would be carrying a different plaque by now.
Number 2, in our country, I know that people have told you that showing shoes at someone is an insult. But, it is a bigger insult to the host; in our culture anyone who insults a guest is insulting the host.
So in our culture we believe that what Mr al-Zeidi did was reprehensible.
The anti-American Marxist front group Code Pink ambushed Iraq Ambassador to the United States, Samir Sumaida’ie, during a presentation in Washington on Tuesday.
They demanded that shoe-chucker and Sadrist Muntader al-Zaidi be released after his assault on President Bush. The Code Pink blog described the showdown:
In D.C. this morning, the Iraq Ambassador to the United States, Samir Sumaida’ie, paused during a presentation to address a handful of women from CODEPINK who were holding signs in the audience reading “Free al-Zaidi” and “al-Zaidi speaks for me.”
The signs were to show their support for the Iraqi journalist who was taken into police custody after throwing his shoes at President Bush during a Baghdad press conference on Sunday.
The Ambassador directly acknowledged the women’s presence in the audience. He called al-Zaidi’s act disgraceful and said the journalist was lucky that he didn’t try something like this under Saddam Hussein.
He held his thoughts.
the entire group of Code Pink should be used for chum for white pointers off the south coast of Oz
~~Code PING!
Great video! Thanks for posting it.
Ping worthy! BUMP!
For the Ping list. A must-watch video. (something good on youtube for a change...) Understand it as a reward for Operation Smackdown! Fruits of Freedom.
I’d like to throw some shoes at some pinkos.
I’ll drink to that!
So would I, but with them still on my feet and after a four step run up.
Smack down. ;)
> the entire group of Code Pink should be used for chum for white pointers off the south coast of Oz
(grin!) but they’re bigger and hungrier off Dunedin, South Island NZ...
~~PING!
Aah .. the rest of the story:
“Al-Zeidi reportedly spoke glowingly of al-Sadr, whose followers organized protests Monday to demand his release.”
http://www.mymotherlode.com/News/article/id/D954I62G0
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The Ambassador directly acknowledged the women’s presence in the audience. He called al-Zaidi’s act disgraceful and said the journalist was lucky that he didn’t try something like this under Saddam Hussein.Yea, he would have been taken out back and shot.
Code pink
Little gnats
Shoe fly shoo.
...(T)howing shoes at someone is an insult. But, it is a bigger insult to the host; in our culture anyone who insults a guest is insulting the host.Take him out back and shoot him. Let code pink go over there and protest.
Their evil must be banished from this earth.
Soros is giggling behind the curtain to see
his dollars at work .. can’t post my
fondest wishes for all of them.
Have gone toe to toe with Code Pinkos many times.
They are programed and incapable of an original thought.
With the Public School system as breeding grounds for
their Leftwing foundation, they have a never ending
supply of anti war, islamOfascist lemmings.
What will the Pinkos do when GWB is no longer in office? I guess this is their last hurrah?
Oh no ... they’ll be pushing for hearings and impeachment
for Pres. Bush.
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