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2008-12-16 Iraq

Arab world embraces Iraqi who threw shoes at Bush

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Posted by Fred 2008-12-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Anyone one in Rantburg would want to be the hero of people who consider a guy who crushed the skull of a four year old girl, a hero?

Just what I thought.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2008-12-16 05:47|| 2008-12-16 05:47|| Front Page Top

Posted by Gerthudion Flavitch9964 2008-12-16 06:00|| 2008-12-16 06:00|| Front Page Top

#3 If he'd done this to Saddam, I'm sure his boys shredder would have been greased that night.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-12-16 07:20|| 2008-12-16 07:20|| Front Page Top

#4 Yet another reason for the Iraqis to loathe their Arab "brothers".

Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife 2008-12-16 07:46|| 2008-12-16 07:46|| Front Page Top

#5 If you're p*ssing off an Arab, you're doing something right....

Posted by Uncle Phester 2008-12-16 08:38|| 2008-12-16 08:38|| Front Page Top

#6 If I were Zaidi, I would hope that Mr Dulaimi has learned a thing or two about the law in the past couple of years. His last client didn't do too well with his legal expertise.

Posted by Cornsilk Blondie 2008-12-16 08:42|| 2008-12-16 08:42|| Front Page Top

#7 So. He had been planning this for months. Did he set up a target and practice like those people did to win money, not to strike a blow for their people, but to win money at a halftime show? NO. Caught President Bush completely by surprise and missed twice from 5 yards - Ha Ha Ha! Ha Ha! My daughter throws better than this Childish Representative of Journalistic Suckulance. Bwaa ha ha! Give Bush 2 baseballs from same distance. Snicker snicker snort.

Hundreds joined a protest? What, everyone else at work? Thhhuupppttt.

Posted by swksvolFF 2008-12-16 10:41|| 2008-12-16 10:41|| Front Page Top

#8 I think president Bush was gaining his fame at the end of his presidency.
President Bush attacked in Iraq ignoring the permission of United Nations.

Though UN is one of the puppet of US. How could President Bush doing this to

Iraqi people? War is not a game. So he get his
reward. I hope this will remembered by President Bush until his death.
http://www.eonlinetask.com

Posted by asif">asif 2008-12-16 10:43|| http://www.eonlinetask.com]">[http://www.eonlinetask.com] 2008-12-16 10:43|| Front Page Top

#9 Yeah, asif, I'm sure he'll be laughing about the idiot who threw the shoes at him for years.

Posted by tu3031 2008-12-16 11:23|| 2008-12-16 11:23|| Front Page Top

#10 More like Saddam ignored every UNSC resolution passed since the end of the first Gulf War.

Bamboozling and hoodwinking the international community is not a game. The "Butcher of Baghdad" got his reward.

Posted by eltoroverde 2008-12-16 12:12|| 2008-12-16 12:12|| Front Page Top

#11 War is not a game. So he get his
reward....

Thanks for the comment, poster from that thriving and advanced nation known as Bangladesh.

Posted by Pappy 2008-12-16 12:24|| 2008-12-16 12:24|| Front Page Top

#12 Mr. Asif Mahmud, you'll notice that Saddam Hussein not only lost his war, but also his life and the lives of his sons. His bloodline has been ended by the Iraqi people he terrorized for two generations.

The fool Zaidi is now locked up with broken bones by the people he claimed to represent by his temper tantrum. While other fools may think him clever and brave, we who conquered Saddam Hussein laugh at a pretend man who acts like a two year old and got spanked for it. Grown men do not need to respond to the outcries of children, nor do conquerors to those who have nothing more to say than, "Look at meeeeeee!"

Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife 2008-12-16 12:35|| 2008-12-16 12:35|| Front Page Top

#13 Inclement weather shuts down Shoe Toss training center. ~~Global Warming~~ Climate Change strikes again.

Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2008-12-16 13:48|| 2008-12-16 13:48|| Front Page Top

#14 The guy missed. Twice. Not to imply that one man's specific failure is symbolic of the Arab world's failure in general. Forget I mentioned it. It wasn't my intention to highlight their lack of cultural progress for the last what? - a millenium or so. But the symbolism *is* compelling, eh?

Posted by SteveS 2008-12-16 21:10|| 2008-12-16 21:10|| Front Page Top

#15 He is rather iconic and symbolic of the arab islamic movement on the whole SteveS. Close, but no cigar.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-12-16 22:17|| 2008-12-16 22:17|| Front Page Top

#16 REDDIT > seems Zaidi's Brother is claiming his brother's act was intended to show Muslim and World disdain for BUSH AS A TYRANT???

ION FREEREPUBLIC > RUSSIA CLAIMS US PLANS NEW MILITARY BASES IN CENTRAL ASIA.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-12-16 22:18|| 2008-12-16 22:18|| Front Page Top

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