Posted on 03/12/2009 6:47:54 AM PDT by BraveMan
BAGHDAD The Iraqi journalist who threw shoes at then-President George W. Bush was convicted Thursday of assaulting a foreign leader and sentenced to three years in prison, lawyers said. He defiantly shouted "long live Iraq" when the sentence was read.
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the democrats have a new martyr ...
LOL! Those shoes might have cracked his teleprompter!
In the US he would be hailed as a hero by the left and invited to all the best Hollywood parties.
..now for the good news after 3 years he gets a contract with the NY Mets as a stopper.
The good news is he still has time to prepare for the prom.
3 years dang they don’t fool around over there.
Thanks in part to the target of those shoes.
Iraqis have a very strong cultural base of hospitality and they look upon this poorly as a reflection of themselves.
So this guy gets to pay for it. He’ll probably get some clemency deal at some point. But I think he will be in the slammer for a good stretch of it.
The Iraqi government doesn’t like being made to look bad since it’s been literally a life and death struggle to get this far.
I would be tempted to throw both shoes
I was sad because I had no shoes to throw, until I met a reporter who had no feet.................
I’m thinking a parody of The Who’s song “Long Live Rock” is in order here . . .
I think it would have been funny if the judge had told him, “Who throws a shoe? Honestly! You fight like a woman.”
Very true.
It’s a shame actually that the MSM doesn’t appreciate how far they’ve come. Of course they never acknowledged how bad it was under Saddam.
They have no interests in reporting on how the Iraqis have overcome the tide.
And they certainly don’t want to report facts on the ground that would undercut their “investment” in reporting the failure of Iraq.
That would belie the attacks on President Bush. It’s never in their book.
Most of us saw the tide coming by reading Michael Yon and other reports as the media decided that it’s best to just go silent.
On occasion of course they will trot out someone to say how it will all fail, but they have no interest in reporting or seeing otherwise. The Iraqi people are no more than a prop in the matter.
They had more interests in cutting a deal with Saddam so they could hang out at Iraq hotels than report on the brutality against the people. American reporters in Bagdad were just an extension of the Ugly American.
They are too self-absorbed to see what everyone else does.
And, make him wear panties on his head.
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