Arabs hail shoe attack as Bush's farewell gift

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[Sub-Driver]

BDS..........

[Red Badger]

I wonder if he ever threw a shoe at Saddam?............

[dragnet2]

There making this shoeicide bomber out a hero..

[kittycatonline.com]

I wonder if he ever threw a shoe at Saddam?

What, and face being fed into the tree chipper? I'm sure one of Saddam's body doubles is still available. They've seen the guy operate, they know his evil. Put the double back up and tell the Iraqis, they want their Saddam back, they can have him. Well, maybe the next best thing, but whatever.

[fellowpatriot]

Where was this ‘hero’ when saddam was butchering innocent people?

[MEGoody]

Maybe Bush’s farewell gift to them should be the corpse of the shoe-tosser wrapped in bacon.

[SouthernBoyupNorth]

Believe it or not it is a deadly insult in the Arab world. Showing the sole of your shoe or throwing a shoe at some one indicates utter contempt. Such as “you are dirt beneath my feet.” or something much worse. Its like using the “C” word to describe a woman. Over there it IS an insult.... a very bad one.

[edcoil]

History will show what a waste of time, money and effort it was for America to give 2 cents for anyone in the middle east.

[jrooney]

To the lefty retards, this guy loved Saddam Hussein, who was a mass murderer that murdered tens of thousands of innocent people, women and children included with shots to the head, cut off limbs of the innocent for pleasure, had rape rooms and employees of the state that carried I.D. badges identifying them as rapists and whose oldest son would pick young girls up from the street, take them to his home and rape and molest them for his pleasure and power gratification over them. So when you cheer on this idiot, you cheer on those activities.

[Red Badger]

As soon as we leave, Iraq will be back to what it was. Tribal warfare, Sunni-Shia warfare, Muslim-Christian warfare, thug-on-thug warfare, warlord on warlord warfare...........

[Mr. Mojo]

Colleagues of Muntazer al-Zaidi ..said he "detested America" and had been plotting such an attack for months

lol..."plotting." How much plotting does it take to take off one's shoes and hurl them? And as far as it being the "best goodbye kiss ever" ....uh...memo to Muntazer: you missed.

[Slapshot68]

I wonder what sort of journalistic freedom he had under Saddam.

[TexasGreg]

Colleagues of Muntazer al-Zaidi, who works for independent Iraqi television station Al-Baghdadia, said he "detested America" and had been plotting such an attack for months against the man who ordered the war on his country.

Try this on any Arab Leader in any Arab country, TODAY, and you won't have a head to go with the shoes you threw. What an absolute ignoramus ... and what a backward bunch of ingrates. Bush should make a statement about how, while he laughed it off, Saddam would have ordered the reporter executed.

[Boiling Pots]

Right.

Propping up religious elements in the M.E. while tearing down secular ones will prove (has proven) to be disastrous.

[Vaquero]

Coulda been worse

[YOUGOTIT]

Just another PIG faced devil as most from that region are.
Why did the body guards not put him away?

[LouAvul]

Where was this ‘hero’ when saddam was butchering innocent people?

He was probably one of the maggots who did the butchering. Found himself out of work when the US showed up.

[FrankR]

Bush should come out with a statement:

Due to the shoe throwing incident, and as an indication of the lack of appreciation for the United States delivering Iraq from tyranny, rebuildign their infrastructure and providing a stable government and protection, I am ordering the immediate and mass withdrawal of all U.S. Military personnel and equipment, and urging all those countries participating the coalition to do the same.

Now, if you inappreciative bastards get invaded again...just throw a shoe at'em.

[Williams]

The more we are fed this drivel about what the “Arab World” thinks, the further our foreign policy will go off track. This same Arab World depends on us for survival and their leaders know it. The rest is pure show.

[monkeybrau]

Ah the culmination of your journalism career, your life in fact, and you miss. Twice. Epic Fail.