Iraqi journalist throws shoe at bush!

[Zenbuoy]

Iraqi insult (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/28223089#28223089):osama:

[Terran]

Pretty good reflexes, considering...

Bush reported to be drinking heavily
By Wayne Madsen
Online Journal Contributing Writer

Dec 5, 2008, 00:25

(WMR) -- With less than two months remaining in office, George W. Bush, witnessing a devastating defeat for the Republican Party, worse favorability ratings than those of Richard Nixon at the height of the Watergate scandal, and the most devastating economic situation since the Great Depression, is reported by a number of well-placed sources in Washington as drinking heavily.

After having tried to explain away the collapse of several Wall Street brokerage houses by saying, "Wall Street got drunk," it appears that it is Bush who is suffering from bouts of drunkenness.

According to informed sources who spoke to WMR, Bush was visibly drunk at the recent G-20 economic summit in Washington and at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Lima, Peru. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso, Chinese President Hu Jintao, South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Mexican President Felipe Calderon, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper were among the world leaders who had the chance to witness an inebriated Bush both at the G-20 and APEC summits.

Read more... (http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_4093.shtml)

[Gary]

Good one Mr, yet again, you are making the rest of us look lazy!

[Gale]

Hell if I was Bush I would be more than drunk.
:puke:

[Zenbuoy]

From the brilliant David Dees

[Terran]

Bushtrix in Action (GIF Animation)

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[url]http://www.laughters.org/2008/12/bushtrix-in-action/ (http://www.laughters.org/2008/12/bushtrix-in-action/)

[Heretic]

:rofl:

this guy is an Arab hero now, and the 2 shoes are now being sought for grand sums of money


Gaza City


Mosul, Iraq


Najaf, Iraq


:rockon:

[zorgon]

this guy is an Arab hero now, and the 2 shoes are now being sought for grand sums of money

My contact in Oz says they would grant the thrower instant citizenship LOL

Did you all notice how long it took the SS (Secret Service) to respond? They were in the back room...

Awe come on now... don't you guys get it? This was a setup... The SS was told to stand down...

Bush is secretly a comedian. I bet he has contracts lined up in Vegas



I mean when was the last time we had a president that made us laugh so hard?

[zorgon]

This guy could win any crowd in Vegas with his act... and look at the great impersonations he does..



Funny George Bush Moments




This guy is great... and the 'Olde Soft Shoe" is just his way of 'Exiting Stage Left' making sure he is remembered as a comedian

[zorgon]

Look at him laughing while they beat the Iraqi

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=bf6_1229286947

THIS WAS A SETUP

[sfth13]

Peace Activists Take Shoes to White House in Solidarity with Shoe-Throwing Iraqi Journalist

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=11405

[zorgon]

Peace Activists Take Shoes to White House in Solidarity with Shoe-Throwing Iraqi Journalist
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=11405

Posted a suggestion to mail a shoe in the ATS shoe toss video thread and someone ran with it

Send shoes to the Whitehouse
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread419979/pg1

Do a google for
"Send shoes to the Whitehouse"

:whacky095::whacky095::whacky095:

[sfth13]

that is so funny.:rolllaugh: I'd love to see thier faces when the truck backs up full of shoes:bananen_smilies063:

Delivery for Mr. Bush...

[zorgon]

Gaza City

So now we can go home and let them go back to killing each other until the next Saddam comes along that we prop up...

Its good business :tank:

[Zenbuoy]

Throw a shoe yourself NOW!

Play...

Bush's Boot Camp (http://www.t-enterprise.co.uk/flashgame/playgame.aspx?id=bushbootcamp)

[Zenbuoy]

"Send Shoes To Bush The
Genocidal Maniac"

This game is a little better-ZB

Play the game: http://www.sockandawe.com/


Join the protest: (I don't know who began this, but I think it is a great idea)


Please forward to all your lists and join the campaign.


Demand the release of the Iraqi journalist Muntazer Al-Zeidi and flood the White House with old shoes. Speaking Shoes to Power Campaign!


Via Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=39966318314&ref=nf


In solidarity with and in support of the brave Iraqi journalist Muntazer al-Zeidi, I am organizing a flood the White House with your Smelly Old Shoes campaign. From today until his last day in office, we should send Mr. Bush every smelly old shoe that we can find at home or in the street to express our true feelings to a "Job Well-Done!"


With his shoes, Muntazer al-Zeidi spoke for millions of people and he stands as a hero for speaking Shoes to Power.


Below is the address and make sure to send it immediately::rolllaugh:


President George W. Bush
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500

LINK (http://www.rense.com/general84/sending.htm)

[zorgon]

Waiting to see when main Stream Media pick up on this...

Imagine this on the front lawn of the white house




:rolllaugh:

[Norval]

Wish I still had my shop foreman from the 70s, I would send his boots ! !

They could knock a buzzard off a shit wagon at a 100 meters ! :puke:

[zorgon]

I'd love to see thier faces when the truck backs up full of shoes

Well I just did a Google for send shoe to the white house...

Seems we have WILD FIRE

Results 1 - 10 of about 1,930,000 for send shoe to white house. (0.24 seconds)

I propose an award for the thrower... if he survives

Even if not he will be able to use these in the next life

Golden Winged Sandals

[sfth13]

I love it.. they way things are going maybe they can use shoes for currency!!! I'm sure they'll be worth more than the dollar pretty soon.:bananen_smilies029:

[Zenbuoy]

UPDATE

Shoe Leather Flies in Iran

Iranians hurl shoes at Bush pictures (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7800587.stm)

Dozens of people in the Iranian capital have thrown shoes at cartoon pictures of US President George W Bush.
Their action was in support of Iraqi journalist Muntazer Al-Zaidi, who threw his footwear at the American leader in Baghdad.
The journalist is due to go on trial in Iraq, accused of assaulting a foreign head of state.

[Heretic]

I think we have the makings of the "real" legacy of Bush Jr. The shoe heard around the world. 100 yrs from now, when his name comes up, people will say "thats the shoe guy right?"

too funny

[Zenbuoy]

from the Sun.uk cartoons (http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/sun_says/article273715.ece?slideshowPopup=true&articleId=273715&nSlide=19)

[Swami Salami]

http://www.planetdan.net/pics/misc/georgerag.swf

If he gets stuck, click, hold and throw............

[Zenbuoy]

Saddam's hometown unveils statue
dedicated to man who threw shoe at President Bush


BY DAVE GOLDINER
NY DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Thursday, January 29th 2009


Saleh/Getty

A statue dedicated to the man who threw his shoes at President Bush has been erected in Tikrit, Saddam Hussein's hometown.
Many Iraqis considered it poetic justice when a journalist tossed his shoes at President George W. Bush last month.
Now the bizarre attack has spawned a real life work of art.
A sofa-sized statue of the shoe was unveiled Thursday in Tikrit, the hometown of the former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.
Baghdad-based artist Laith al-Amari described the fiberglass-and-copper work as a tribute to the pride of the Iraqi people.
The statue is inscribed with a poem honoring Muntadhar al-Zeidi, the Iraqi journalist who stunned the world when he whipped off his loafers and hurled them at Bush during a press conference on Dec. 14.
In the Arab world, even showing someone the sole of a shoe is considered a sign of disrespect.
Al-Zeidi was charged with assaulting a foreign leader, but his lawyer is asking prosecutors to reduce the charges. The trial has been delayed.
The shoe attack spawned a flood of Web quips, satire and even street rallies across the Arab world, where Bush is widely reviled for starting the war in Iraq and backing Israel against the Palestinians.
A Turkish shoemaking company also claimed its sales skyrocketed after some reports said it made the shoes that al-Zeidi tossed at Bush.:arabia:

[Zenbuoy]

Bush shoe sculpture 'taken down'

BBC
30 January 2009

A sculpture of a shoe erected in Iraq to honour a journalist who threw his footwear at George W Bush has been dismantled, reports say.
Foreign media say the bronze-coloured fibre-glass shoe was removed from its site in the city of Tikrit on the orders of the local authorities.
It had been erected in the grounds of an orphanage.
The monument was reportedly taken down just a day after being unveiled in the late Saddam Hussein's home town.
The head of the Childhood organisation, which owns the orphanage, said she had been told to remove the monument immediately by the Salaheddin Provincial Joint Coordination Centre.


"I did take the shoe down immediately and destroyed it, and I did not ask why," Shahah Daham told the German news agency DPA.
Salaheddin's deputy governor, Abdullah Jabara, told DPA: "Children should be put away from any political-related issues. Since this is an orphanage, this monument can instil in children's heart things for which the time is not now."
Mr Jabara was also quoted by CNN as saying: "We will not allow anyone to use the government facilities and buildings for political motives.":bsflag:
'Source of pride'
When the sculpture was unveiled, artist Laith al-Amari insisted it was not a political work, but a "source of pride for all Iraqis".

Mr Bush managed to dodge the shoes but the man who threw them, Muntadar al-Zaidi, was arrested and awaits trial.
As he pulled off his shoes, Mr Zaidi, now 30, shouted: "This is from the widows, the orphans, and those who were killed in Iraq."
He also told Mr Bush, who launched the invasion of Iraq in 2003 and was paying a final visit to Iraq last month: "This is a farewell kiss, you dog".
Mr Zaidi shot to fame as a result of his action, which signalled extreme contempt in the Arab world, and inspired rallies across the Middle East and beyond.
Since his arrest, the TV journalist has reportedly been beaten in custody, suffering a broken arm, broken ribs and internal bleeding.
He has been charged with aggression against a foreign head of state, and faces up to 15 years in jail if convicted. His family denies he has done anything wrong.

[Zenbuoy]

Iraqi shoe-thrower goes on trial on Thursday
AFP (http://uruknet.info/?p=m51913&hd=&size=1&l=e)

17 February 2009

BAGHDAD - The Iraqi journalist who won global attention when he hurled his shoes at former US president George W. Bush goes on trial on Thursday charged with assaulting a foreign leader.



Muntazer al-Zaidi faces up to 15 years in prison if convicted, but his legal team will ask for the charge to be thrown out and for the reporter to be freed.

"He should be released because he was only expressing himself and protesting against the occupation," Zaidi's lawyer Dhiya al-Saadi told AFP on Tuesday.

Bush, who ordered the US-led invasion of Iraq in March 2003, was on a farewell visit to the country when Zaidi threw his shoes during a Baghdad press conference on December 14.

Zaidi, 30, who works for the Al-Baghdadia television channel, also insulted Bush, shouting: "It is the farewell kiss, you dog," in an action that was hailed across the Arab world.

Bush managed to duck, and after the shoes whizzed past his head joked with reporters that they were a "size 10".

A 25-strong defence team has been preparing the defence of Zaidi, whose gesture is considered a grave insult in the Arab and Muslim world.

If they fail to get the charges dropped they will argue that the journalist did not try to kill Bush and was entitled to make a protest about the US invasion and occupation of Iraq.

"We will present our demands on the day of the trial," Saadi said. "The journalist only wanted to express his opinion," insisting that the law under which Zaidi is charged is not applicable to his case.

The charge of assaulting a foreign leader carries a prison term of between five to 15 years, but Saadi said the reporter should be freed because the shoes did not constitute a "lethal weapon" and could not have killed Bush.

Judicial authorities had the option of dismissing the charge, or have altered it to a lesser one of "attempted aggression" which carries a prison term of one to five years.

The case will be heard at the Central Criminal Court, which is responsible for terrorism cases and is located in the Green Zone, the heavily-protected area of Baghdad where the government and some Western embassies are located.

A judge in December rejected allegations by the journalist's family that he had been tortured in custody, charges that were levelled after his brother was allowed to visit him in prison.

The incident inspired a British student, Alex Tew, to create a "Sock and Awe" (www.sockandawe.com) shoe-throwing website which says it has so far had more than 86 million hits in the face of ex-president Bush on the Internet.

Other journalists at Al-Baghdadia, who asked not to be named, told AFP that Zaidi, who was abducted by insurgents during the sectarian strife that engulfed Iraq in the wake of the US invasion, should not be punished.

"He did not want to say goodbye to Bush in a traditional way, so he said farewell in his own way," said one of the reporter's colleagues.

"I feel that what he did was a national gesture to lift the sorrow of children and widows."

Another Al-Baghdadia journalist added: "Muntazer al-Zaidi is a quiet, respectful and educated person and a professional in every sense of the word. He does not deserve to be sentenced and should not be put on trial."



Iraqi shoe-thrower 'apologises'bsflag

BBC (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7790318.stm)

Muntader al-Zaidi has been charged with "aggression against a president"
The Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at US President George W Bush has apologised to Iraqi PM Nouri Maliki, the prime minister's office says.
Local TV reporter Muntader al-Zaidi wrote a letter to Mr Maliki asking for forgiveness over his "ugly act", prime minister's spokesman Yasin Majeed said.

:bananen_smilies031:

Mr Zaidi has been in custody since he threw shoes and shouted insults at Mr Bush during Sunday's news conference.
His actions have made him a hero in some quarters of the Arab world.
Iraqi officials have described the incident as shameful.
Mr Zaidi has been charged with "aggression against a president", which carries a prison sentence of up to 15 years.

'A lie'
Yasin Majeed said Mr Maliki had received a contrite letter from the journalist."Zaidi said in his letter that his big ugly act cannot be excused," Mr Majeed said.

If [the letter] happened, I tell you it happened under pressure
Udai al-Zaidi

He said Mr Zaidi added: "But I remember in the summer of 2005, I interviewed your excellency and you told me, 'Come in, this is your house'. And so I appeal to your fatherly feelings to forgive me."
However, according to Reuters news agency, one of Mr Zaidi's brothers expressed scepticism over the merits of the letter.
"This information is absolutely not true. This is a lie. Muntader is my brother and I know him very well. He does not apologise," Udai al-Zaidi said.
He added: "But if it happened, I tell you it happened under pressure."

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