Iraqi Who Threw Shoes at George Bush Hailed as Hero (Attacked Planned for Months)

Times Online ^ | Monday, December 15, 2008 | Philippe Naughton

[kristinn]

It's amazing how the media can't find any Iraqis who are angry at the shoe-flinger.

Here's one.

[basil]

I need some clarification from this shoe throwing "journalist". Was he throwing shoes at President Bush to protest all the widows and orphans of Saddam's regime?

I didn't think so.....

[Dallas59]

Not to mention all the Iraqis beheaded by the Islamic “Freedom Fighters”...

[ladtx]

Someone needs to let the Iraqi’s know that in the U.S. throwing a shoe isn’t an insult it’s what little girls do.

[Sacajaweau]

Bush was amazingly cool through this. Obama would have immediately exited.

[Redbob]

You go to his webpage, that so-called “angry arab” apparently has a real shoe fetish!
He sounds like he could use a little quality time with a therapist...

[caver]

“Attacked Planned for Months”

I thought this was a surprise visit by Bush?

[Redbob]

"Someone needs to let the Iraqi’s know that in the U.S. throwing a shoe isn’t an insult it’s what little girls do."

And the Iraqis throw like girls too!
LOL!

(Wonder if they wear pigskin shoes...)

[penelopesire]

I’d like to know if this ‘Iraqi journalist’ was ‘trained’ at George Soros’s ‘Institute For War and Peace Reporting’. What you wanna bet that some Code Pinkos at this institute helped this journalist ‘develop’ his views?!

[raccoonradio]

How they’re treating it at the lefty Boston Phoenix:

http://thephoenix.com/BLOGS/phlog/archive/2008/12/14/if-the-shoe-fits-dodge-it-dubya-under-attack.aspx

>> Why didn’t American journalists think of this sooner?

And a comment from “Boston Knucklehead”:

>>I love it how Bush after says he doesn’t know what the guys “beef” was. Well lets (sic) see you invaded his country idiot.

[MountainWoman]

Hate to break it to this mongrel, but his attack failed...HE MISSED!!! TWICE!!!! hahaha

[Holicheese]

They should make him happy and treat him like Saddam would have. Throw him in a plastic shredder!

[50sDad]

Hey, crybaby...our astronauts put their footprints all over your holy symbol, the moon forty years ago.

[muawiyah]

This Zaidi puke was tossing shoes at "W" because he wants the plastic shredding machines brought back as a disciplinary tool.

Iraq is so full of totally whacked out crazoids that it isn't funny.

Thankfully there are fewer of them now than 5 years ago.

[Thebaddog]

This is typical muslim alternative reality. How could it have been planned for months? We heard about the visit on Saturday. Do you think that the Americans in Iraq would be less security conscious than we are here? No.

[Yo-Yo]

Isn’t it a wonderful demonstration of Iraqi democracy? Had this reporter done a similar stunt under Hussein’s regime, his family would have been rounded up, the women placed in rape torture cells, and he would have been executed.

Today this same ‘reporter’ throws his shoes at the leader of the Free World, and he not only lives to tell about it, he will most likely only face a civil fine.

[VanillaBlizzard]

HAHAHA only one to mention in yet this morning....we don’t care what it means OVER THERE to throw a show, we know what it ACTUALLY means.

[abb]

I’m thinking we should start chunking shoes at the Drive-Bys...

[flyfree]

Probably a Sadrist

[sazerac]

There’s a website I sometimes visit and I’ve never till now heard the democrats at the site say a good word about Bush.

They almost unanimously think he was awesome dodging the shoes and taking it so well.

Then you go to DU and not one of them will say such a thing.