Members Dave Campbell Posted December 16, 2008 Members Share Posted December 16, 2008 Don't forget Aunt Bunnie. Yeah, but at least Aunt Bunnie's would have come back like a boomerang.She would have gotten a good four or five tries before she got tackled.One of 'em woulda corked Bushie. Say it like Forrest Gump, "Sometimes, th' jus ain't enuff shoes". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members King Kashue Posted December 16, 2008 Members Share Posted December 16, 2008 He should sack his entire security team, disgusting.. Good security guys would have seen and diffused that situation before he had even reached for the first shoe..He's media.He had credentials.Prior to throwing the shoe, he was listening to the press conference like everyone else.Precisely what indications should have tipped them off? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Kindness Posted December 16, 2008 Moderators Share Posted December 16, 2008 Precisely what indications should have tipped them off? HE WAS WEARING SHOES!!!! :poke: You must be both myopic and scrupulous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members hi.flyer Posted December 16, 2008 Members Share Posted December 16, 2008 Precisely what indications should have tipped them off? Um... HELLO! He's brown! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Kindness Posted December 16, 2008 Moderators Share Posted December 16, 2008 Um... HELLO! He's brown! {censored} yeah! That too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members db. Posted December 16, 2008 Members Share Posted December 16, 2008 He's media. He had credentials. Prior to throwing the shoe, he was listening to the press conference like everyone else. Precisely what indications should have tipped them off? They should have made all Iraqi journalists remove their shoes. Just in case. Now that guy is a folk hero in Iraq. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mr.Mow Posted December 16, 2008 Members Share Posted December 16, 2008 Really??? Hell yes..Can't remember where I saw it, some doco about secret service guys, trained to watch for body language stuff, these guys know before anything happens just on how people are acting, would have seen the guy reach down go to stand up etc.. Like good martial arts guys, they know what the opponent is going to do before he's even done it.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members collinwho Posted December 16, 2008 Members Share Posted December 16, 2008 He's media. He had credentials. Prior to throwing the shoe, he was listening to the press conference like everyone else. Precisely what indications should have tipped them off? ???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mr.Mow Posted December 16, 2008 Members Share Posted December 16, 2008 vvvv???? Still man, they don't hand out the shades and curly earpieces to any old shlubs.. just sayin, they are in a foreign country that they invaded, I'd assume they would be on high alert at all times.. Unless the general consensus is Bush is an asshole and on the way out anyway.. so security has been scaled back! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Perfessor Posted December 16, 2008 Members Share Posted December 16, 2008 Iraqi = nuts. It's in the DNA of the people there. The Middle East must have been a dumping ground of mentally ill for the Egyptians or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Bensbeenjamin Posted December 16, 2008 Members Share Posted December 16, 2008 I saw it on re-play it cracked me up, that idiot is going to be going to jail for a loooooooong ass time for threatening the president. All because he couldn't keep his shoes on lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members lug Posted December 16, 2008 Members Share Posted December 16, 2008 Iraqi = nuts. It's in the DNA of the people there. The Middle East must have been a dumping ground of mentally ill for the Egyptians or something.The very political incorrectness of this post, FTW! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members chunky-b Posted December 16, 2008 Members Share Posted December 16, 2008 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=081216140356.q96ebz36&show_article=1 Iraq to probe 'custody abuse' of Bush shoe assailant Iraq's justice system is to probe the case of the journalist who hurled his shoes at US President George W. Bush, officials said on Tuesday, as his brother said he had been beaten up by security agents."Muntazer al-Zaidi has been transferred to the judicial authorities who have opened an investigation. But it is too soon to say who was behind this act," General Qassem Atta, spokesman for a Baghdad security plan, told AFP.The journalist's brother, meanwhile, said he has a broken arm and ribs after being struck by Iraqi security agents.Durgham Zaidi was unable to say whether Muntazer had sustained the injuries while being overpowered during Sunday's protest against Bush's visit to Baghdad or while in custody later.He said he had been told that his brother was initially held by Iraqi forces in the heavily fortified Green Zone compound in central Baghdad where the US embassy and most government offices are housed."He has got a broken arm and ribs, and cuts to his eye and arm," said Durgham.Zaidi, 29, a journalist for private Iraqi television channel Al-Baghdadia, was swiftly overpowered by Iraqi security forces after he threw the shoes at Bush in a gesture seen as the supreme mark of disrespect in the Muslim world.An AFP journalist said that blood was visible on the ground as he was led away into custody although it was unclear if it was his.Bush, who was on a swansong visit to the battleground that came to dominate his eight-year presidency, ducked when the shoes were thrown and later made light of the incident.But Zaidi's action won him widespread plaudits in the Arab world where Bush's policies have drawn broad hostility.The Lebanese television channel NTV, known for its opposition to Washington, went as far as offering a job to the journalist.In its evening news bulletin on Monday, it said that if he takes the job, he will be paid "from the moment the first shoe was thrown".Zaidi A manager at the channel told AFP that it had made its offer known to Zaidi and was ready to post bail on his behalf.An Iraqi lawyer said Zaidi risks a miminum of two years in prison if he is successfully prosecuted for insulting a visiting head of state.In Gaza, around 20 Palestinian gunmen from the Popular Resistance Committees, a hardline militant group that has been behind a spate of rocket attacks on Israel in recent weeks, staged a demonstration in support of Zaidi.Wearing fatigues and brandishing Kalashnikov assault rifles, they stamped on photographs of the US president and held banners in support of the journalist.Egyptian independent daily Al-Badeel carried a frontpage caricature of the US flag with the sole of a shoe replacing the stars in the top corner.Even government-owned newspapers in Cairo praised Zaidi's actions. "Pelting the American president with shoes was the best way for expressing what Iraqis and Arabs feel toward Bush," wrote Al-Gomhuria editor Mohammad Ali Ibrahim.In Iraq, press comment was divided.The pro-government Al-Sabah newspaper expressed concern about the potential impact on press freedom of what it called Zaidi's "abnormal individual behaviour."But the independent Al-Dustur newspaper hailed the journalist as the "only Iraqi whose patriotic feelings made him express his opinion in this way.""It is not a declaration by the Iraqi media only, but for all Iraqis who have suffered over the years and we demand that he not be handed over to US forces," the paper said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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