Posted on 12/17/2008 10:24:18 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Iraq's parliament speaker announced his resignation Wednesday after a parliamentary session descended into chaos as lawmakers argued about whether to free a journalist who threw his shoes at President George W. Bush.
The speaker, Mahmoud al-Mashhadani, has threatened to resign before and has been suspended for embarrassing the prime minister with erratic behavior.
On Wednesday, after arguments erupted among lawmakers over the fate of the journalist Muntadhar al-Zeidi, the speaker said: 'I have no honor leading this parliament and I announce my resignation.'
Al-Zeidi's family went to the Central Criminal Court expecting to attend a court hearing for him, said his brother, Dhargham. He added they were told the investigative judge went to see him in jail and that they should return in eight days.
'That means my brother was severely beaten and they fear that his appearance could trigger anger at the court,' he added.
Iraqi officials and another brother have denied that the journalist suffered severe injuries after he was wrestled to the floor after throwing the shoes during a press conference by Bush on Sunday.
The reporter shouted in Arabic, 'This is your farewell kiss, you dog!' In Iraqi culture, throwing shoes at someone is a sign of deep contempt, and his actions have drawn huge demonstrations of support among many in Iraq and throughout the Arab world.
In parliament, lawmakers had gathered to review a resolution calling for all non-U.S. troops to withdraw from Iraq by the end of June but those loyal to radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr interrupted the session.
They said parliament should focus on al-Zeidi's case rather than the proposed legislation. The argument escalated with lawmakers screaming at each other, and finally leading al-Mashhadani to announce his resignation, said Wisam al-Zubaidi, an adviser to Khalid al-Attiyah, parliament's deputy speaker.
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Frankly, if congresses brawls and throws chairs, like they do in many countries, I’d highly welcome that.
Maybe someone should start yelling at pelosi and disrupt her agenda and get her to resign. There could be a lesson in here somewhere.
Throw a shoe at her, too!
Iraqi Ambassador defending Bush and blasting shoe-thrower (plus media and code pink). It’s folks like him that give me hope. With video.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2150684/posts
... And in America throwing shoes at someone means (translating into Arabic)'I love you even more than my Camel!'
'Why do we try,' indeed!
STE=Q
****Maybe someone should start yelling at pelosi and disrupt her agenda and get her to resign.
... Throw a shoe at her, too!***
LOL!
STE=Q
Time to go. The politicians have taken over....
“Frankly, if congresses brawls and throws chairs, like they do in many countries, I’d highly welcome that.”
Speaking of shoes and chairs: At at last one U.S. university back in the 1980s, new immigrated Iranian students, some Islamic fundamentalists who hated the Shah, the others pro-West and in Western dress and liking the Shah, argued one day over whether the shah of Iran had been good or bad.
The Islamic fundamentalists “conversed” by hurling big wooden chairs for almost an hour at the other students across tables in the university library. Taxpayers have ever since been funding the education of students of the religion of peace who study those higher education subjects they plan to utilize in attacking us. Brainwashed university administrators just smile in the name of “diversity.”
In recent decades, the terrorist haters of the West have also gotten smarter in their visible tactics: they started C.A.I.R.
This journalist not only threw shoes, but yelled a threat to the President of the United States. Egads, anti-Obama graffiti at a NC College Campus, and the whole socialist coalition (headed by the NC-NAACP) is demanding "hate crimes legislations" at all college campuses in NC.
Graffiti. I remind you. Graffiti.
A nutjob, boorish, uncivil, journalist prone to temper tantrums, throws his shoes at the President of the Free World, yells threats at the President, and the boorish juveniles of the world applaud.
Really. But everyone is taking the wrong message from this.
The real group that should be humiliated by this sordid incident is the corrupt universe of dirtbag "journalists".
As far as I'm concerned, these filty worthless vermin are all alike!
“Why do we even try?”
You are just now coming to that realization? Iraq’s problem is that they are Muslim. They will always be bloodthirsty savages as long as they remain Muslim.
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