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Shoe insult against Bush resounds in Arab world
International Herald Tribune ^ | 12/15/2008 | Timothy Williams and Sharon Otterman

Posted on 12/15/2008 4:43:52 PM PST by autumnraine

BAGHDAD: A day after an Iraqi television journalist threw his shoes at President George W. Bush at a news conference here Sunday, his act of defiance toward the American commander in chief reverberated throughout Iraq and across the Arab world.

In Sadr City, the sprawling Baghdad suburb that has seen some of the most intense fighting between insurgents and U.S. soldiers since the 2003 invasion, thousands of people marched in his defense. In Syria, he was hailed as a hero. In Libya, he was given an award for courage.

Throughout much of the Arab world Monday, the shoe-throwing incident generated front-page headlines and continuing television news coverage. A thinly veiled glee could be discerned in much of the reporting, especially in the places where anti-American sentiment runs deepest.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: iraq; shoe
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To: doc1019
The back end of my toilet faces Mecca … there, take that Mohammed.

The mid east is, and always will be a toilet that faces mecca.

41 posted on 12/15/2008 5:17:05 PM PST by bitterohiogunclinger (America held hostage - day 40)
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To: muir_redwoods

ROFLAMO!!!!

We have a winner!


42 posted on 12/15/2008 5:17:45 PM PST by Recovering Ex-hippie
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To: ikka

In a Civil Islamic way, the only appropriate response is to nuke the Hadj, Tehran and probably London.


43 posted on 12/15/2008 5:18:10 PM PST by Steamburg ( Your wallet speaks the only language most politicians understand.)
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To: Williams

Good point.


44 posted on 12/15/2008 5:19:58 PM PST by Recovering Ex-hippie
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To: glasseye
A “hero” for throwing shoes?

And failing... Actually, it is a pretty good illustration of the Arab world.
45 posted on 12/15/2008 5:20:33 PM PST by Welsh Rabbit
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To: autumnraine
Muzzies are weird.

Of course, I probably would have laughed my ass off if Dubya had returned fire with a pork chop and hit that moron right between the eyes.

46 posted on 12/15/2008 5:20:39 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (For more information on America's "new direction" read The Road to Serfdom. by Friedrich A. Hayek.)
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To: Sola Veritas
“have shot that son of allah right there on the spot. An attack on the POTUS is an attack on America.”
>>>>>>>>>............
Sorry but they are only allowed to shoot American Citizens..all others off limits ..babies in mothers Arms at ruby ridge kinda stuff..
47 posted on 12/15/2008 5:20:48 PM PST by shadowgovernment (From the Ashes of a Republican rout will raise a Conservative Party)
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To: autumnraine

Yeah, I’m not getting it...maybe if he had put some dog crap in a bag and set it on fire outside of Bush’s door or maybe teepeed a tree in the front yard...


48 posted on 12/15/2008 5:20:53 PM PST by davius (You will eventually become what you think about most. Tehran Delenda Est)
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To: gussiefinknottle

At a minimum we should make him wear panties on his head.


49 posted on 12/15/2008 5:21:35 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: autumnraine
President Bush should have quipted:
"...That really hurt! I'm going to have a lump there, you idiot.
Who throws a shoe!? Honestly, you fight like a woman!"

50 posted on 12/15/2008 5:21:35 PM PST by anymouse
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To: autumnraine

Anyone surprised at anything said or done by the arabs.

Bombing children in schools

Bombing children in their homes

Bombing busses

Bombing hospitals, universities, etc.

Shoe throwing, just piggish behaviour compared to the barbarity of the above list of outrages.


51 posted on 12/15/2008 5:23:02 PM PST by Carley (Prayers for Sgt. Eddie Ryan)
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To: freeagle

We are in Iraq to keep Iran from seizing the oil fields.

We are in Iraq so that Saddam Hussein did not march into Kuwait and then on to Saudi Arabia and seize the oil fields.

Our presence in the middle east keeps the world’s energy supply flowing.

As for democratizing the middle east.......never in a million years.


52 posted on 12/15/2008 5:26:13 PM PST by Carley (Prayers for Sgt. Eddie Ryan)
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To: dayglored

OK, I apologize for being un-PC. From now on, I will respectfully refer to them as “{friggin} liddle sheet-heads”.


53 posted on 12/15/2008 5:26:41 PM PST by webschooner
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To: autumnraine

It’s just too bad GW didn’t jump down off the podium and beat the SNOT out of this guy, break his nose, split his lip
etc,” You don’t dis the big dog, farking moron!”.

That would have been a reasonable response in the arab world, now they just think he’s weak.

I hope he has a surprise for them.


54 posted on 12/15/2008 5:27:37 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: autumnraine

As I said in the other post, the ones who confronted us with guns are dead.


55 posted on 12/15/2008 5:28:34 PM PST by Williams (It's The Policies, Stupid.)
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To: Sola Veritas

I think every member of that Secret Service detail should be fired immediately!


56 posted on 12/15/2008 5:28:34 PM PST by Right_in_Virginia
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To: Sola Veritas
You and I weren't there.. should have been greased by our Secret Service. If anyone was in the line of fire, too bad. The Iraqi’s were lax to allow this person to get into this meeting. Sadr city should be leveled and Syria and Libya bombed into the pre-stone age""

Enthusiastically agree!

You and I weren't there but we are here. Everyone is someplace. And none in this nation are doing what should be done. I'm referencing much more than the incident with the shoe.


57 posted on 12/15/2008 5:28:56 PM PST by I see my hands (_8(|)
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To: tet68
I hope he has a surprise for them.

He does...his name is Obama.

58 posted on 12/15/2008 5:34:03 PM PST by Irish Eyes
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To: autumnraine

Once again, the MUSLIMS are getting what they want with this matter. The whole idea of the shoe incident was to create this BS.

HEY brain dead MEDIA MORONS, they are MUSLIMS, the guy who threw the shoe is a MUSLIM, stop with the ARAB BS. MOST of all, they hate our AMERICAN Guts. The despicable Muslim putz DISRESPECTED TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES IS DEPLORABLE.

The question is: How would the media have reacted if that putz had thrown the shoe at BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA?


59 posted on 12/15/2008 5:37:24 PM PST by Paige ("All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing," Edmund Burke)
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To: autumnraine
A thinly veiled glee could be discerned in much of the reporting, especially in the places where anti-American sentiment runs deepest.

MSM newsrooms, Ithaca, Berkeley, Madison, Austin...

60 posted on 12/15/2008 5:37:26 PM PST by denydenydeny ("Banish Merry Christmas. Get ready for Mad Max.."-Daniel Henninger)
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