Article

2008-12-19 Iraq

Archived material is restricted to Rantburg regulars and members. If you need access email fred.pruitt=at=gmail.com with your nick to be added to the members list. There is no charge to join Rantburg as a member.

Posted by tu3031 2008-12-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Give Bush an A+ for how he played this one. The issue here is Maliki. The news guy severely dishonored him. Al Zaidi should offer Maliki that guy's 20 year old daughter as an additional wife. That will save his face. Surprise her though.

Posted by Penguin 2008-12-19 01:41|| 2008-12-19 01:41|| Front Page Top

#2 "This is something that would honor me. I would like to live in Iraq, especially if I were attached to this hero," she said.

For an olde maid, you sure are picky - what makes you think that you two will have any chance to live in Iraq after dipshit's antics? You two will live in Egypt where your 15 minute husband will scribble for a 3rd rate rag which will lose readership, leading to him being fired in 2 years. There you will listen to him bicker about bone pain when the weather gets cold and hear the same story over and over every eid, "If only I'd hit him. I could have been a contender, now I'm just a bum."

Free speech is the right to forum and propose opinions based upon the weight of words and ideas (that is, the paper he is allowed to write for and have freely distributed in Iraq), not throwing crap like a jouvinile monkey who didn't get a banana.

This goofball, in a 15 second clip, highlighted the gulf in idea of civility between the West and ME, and how far Iraq has come in 5 short difficult years.

Posted by swksvolFF 2008-12-19 12:15|| 2008-12-19 12:15|| Front Page Top

#3 Maliki should tell this punk that in order for a pardon to even be considered, he must first apologize to President Bush in person, explain the error of his ways, and ask for his forgiveness. This should be captured live by all the media and broadcasted to the four corners of the world for all to see.

Of course, Bush will graciously accept his apology and offer his unconditional forgiveness. Immediately following, he will embrace Zaidi as the newest member of the modern world. A world that is based on the shared values of democracy, liberty, freedom of speech, and tolerance for all but the intolerant.

Mission accomplished.

Posted by eltoroverde 2008-12-19 14:05|| 2008-12-19 14:05|| Front Page Top

#4 Bush should ask for him to be cut loose.

Posted by .5MT 2008-12-19 15:46|| www.cybernations.net]">[www.cybernations.net] 2008-12-19 15:46|| Front Page Top

#5 Gee, maybe insulting "the most powerful man in the world©" AND the prime minister of your recently-civilized Arab nation to their faces wasn't a real great idea after all...

Posted by mojo">mojo 2008-12-19 16:50|| 2008-12-19 16:50|| Front Page Top

#6 Pardon the guy allready!!!

This entire incident did our cause way, way more good than bad.

Posted by Glager the Weasel1393 2008-12-19 17:28|| 2008-12-19 17:28|| Front Page Top

23:26 Frank G
23:19 Barbara Skolaut
23:16 Jaique Johnson2117
23:08 OldSpook
23:02 Pappy
23:01 Frank G
22:55 Cheaderhead
22:52 Cheaderhead
22:48 Jolutch Mussolini7800
22:48 CrazyFool
22:43 CrazyFool
22:41 Redneck Jim
22:39 Pappy
22:33 AzCat
22:24 Muggsy Glink
22:15 mojo
22:13 mojo
22:13 JosephMendiola
22:11 mojo
22:07 JosephMendiola
22:07 mojo
22:01 Jolutch Mussolini7800
21:59 Unomomble Borgia3031
21:59 Jolutch Mussolini7800