[Wyatt's Torch]

Yeah. I was unaware that the "beating with a shoe" was the highest form of insult in the Arab world until hear Shep mention it tonight. I thought it was insuting someone mustache. What if you beat someones mustache with a shoe?

[cyncooper]

What if you beat someones mustache with a shoe?

This happened in the very first days of this campaign in Safwan. The troops arrive, people decline to be identified in the meda by name, but pics of Saddam's pic being torn down are published.

But FIRST, the first image of a man beating Saddam's image while saying "I curse your mustache".

Ever since I have marveled as we were treated to endless questions from the briefing bozos about "when would we see Iraqis celebrating their 'liberation'". It was beyond deceitful conduct when the press surely was aware of incidents like the above.