An Iraqi Journalist Throws SHOEs at Bush

iVillage Member
Registered: 11-05-2008
An Iraqi Journalist Throws SHOEs at Bush
178
Sun, 12-14-2008 - 3:40pm

Good gosh.

Pages

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-09-2001
Sun, 12-14-2008 - 4:49pm

Here's a link to a news story, also:

http://africa.reuters.com/world/news/usnTRE4BD1ES.html

I find myself horrified by such an action, even given my low opinion of his destructive 8 years as President. A sad denouement to his Presidency. I feel sorry for him, even if he created his own Karma by how he did his job...



Blessings,

Gypsy



Photobucket





Photobucket Photobucket



Dog fighting is cruelty, which is a human activity and a human illness.

It's not the dog's fault.

All dogs need to be evaluated as individuals."

--Tim Racer, one of BAD RAP's founders



http://www.badrap.org/rescue/



Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket



Mika Dog




"All things share the same breath;

the beast, the tree, the man.

The Air shares its spirit with

all the life it supports."

--Chief Seattle



"If there are no dogs in Heaven,

then when I die I want to go where they went."

~Will Rogers



"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress

can be judged by the way its animals are treated."

~~Mahatma Gandhi











Blessings,

Gypsy

)O(



iVillage Member
Registered: 03-25-2007
Sun, 12-14-2008 - 4:49pm

<nice weave and bob>


I've been watching him weave and bob for

Sopal

<?xml:namespace prefix = v ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" />

iVillage Member
Registered: 08-13-2008
Sun, 12-14-2008 - 5:34pm
Imagine that... 37 days from the end of his administration, and he discovers WMDs in Iraq.

Full length fiction: http://llhaesa.org/ (pronounced la.hay.ess.sa)



Full length fiction: worlds undone

"You have no power over my body..." ~ Anne Hutchinson

iVillage Member
Registered: 08-13-2008
Sun, 12-14-2008 - 5:35pm

Humour aside, I agree, throwing something like that is ridiculous. He's a journalist, if he disagrees... write something.

Full length fiction: http://llhaesa.org/ (pronounced la.hay.ess.sa)



Full length fiction: worlds undone

"You have no power over my body..." ~ Anne Hutchinson

iVillage Member
Registered: 11-20-2008
Sun, 12-14-2008 - 5:40pm

Thanks for providing the link. Audio-video downloads/streaming are nigh unto impossible with dial-up access.

But I don't share your kind-hearted attitude towards Bush. He deserves far worse than a pair of shoes thrown at his head but is very unlikely to ever be held accountable or responsible. The man is a world-class want-wit. Look at the this bit from the link you provided: "He declared the war "not over" despite recent gains". That's been the story of Iraq for five and a half long brutal years. Won't acknowledge that his goals were met repeatedly and shifted repeatedly.

Iraq has been a Pandora's box which Bush opened; and he has chosen to fixate on "hope" at the bottom, and pour more money and lives into something which has no definite limits or benchmarks. History will not, if there is any justice, judge him kindly. As far as karma, one imagines his next life as an amoeba--or maybe if he starts right now to make restitution, a gnat....

iVillage Member
Registered: 04-03-2003
Sun, 12-14-2008 - 5:40pm
ICBL's... Inter-Continental Ballistic Loafers.
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-25-2007
Sun, 12-14-2008 - 5:44pm

There is some symbolism in the use of the shoes.

Sopal

<?xml:namespace prefix = v ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" />

iVillage Member
Registered: 11-19-2008
Sun, 12-14-2008 - 9:21pm
I wonder why the SS were outside the door?
iVillage Member
Registered: 11-20-2008
Sun, 12-14-2008 - 9:59pm

The journalist had been kidnapped, held for ransom, and beaten according to Martha Radditz.

Muslims don't wear shoes into their mosques. They're left outside the door. Maybe that plays into why throwing shoes is considered to be particularly defamatory.

iVillage Member
Registered: 12-13-2008
Sun, 12-14-2008 - 10:10pm
They were inside the room and outside the door.

Pages