How about a shoe-in?

[David]

images and symbols can be powerful statements.  The reporter will and has paid dearly for his actions, but he made it clear in a way that cannot be airbrushed, censored, or explained away, just how people feel about the Decider and his actions.   

[jaqeboy]

JOIN US IN WASHINGTON, DC ON PRESIDENT BUSH'S LAST DAY IN OFFICE FOR A SHOE HURLING ACTION

Why Shoe Bush?

Our president stood in a nation he had illegally invaded and occupied, where his actions had caused over 1.2 million deaths, 5 million people forced out of their homes, millions more deprived of electricity or clean water and afraid to walk the streets.  He stood smiling in a nation he had transformed into a living hell, a place where everyone had seen loved ones and neighbors killed.  And when Muntadar Al-Zeidi threw two shoes at him, our president remarked "I don't know what his beef is."
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[jaqeboy]

Suggestions from an Aussie (OK, Scottish, I guess) to honor the "Suicide Slipper fanatic":

Iraqi journalist throws shoes at George Bush

[Russell Kanning]

we could throw shoes at any empire building

[Pat K]

 

[jaqeboy]

we could throw shoes at any empire building

I was thinking at any senator or rep that voted for and supports the 9/11 wars.

[EthanLeeVita]

Any politician?

[jaqeboy]

Any politician?

I think the guy that is most deserving in N.H. would be Judd Gregg, US Senator: http://gregg.senate.gov/public/

[jaqeboy]

http://sockandawe.com/

[Kat Kanning]

Interesting.

Iraqi shoe thrower seeks political asylum
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090119/ap_on_re_eu/eu_switzerland_iraq_shoe_thrower

I read he'd been beaten and tortured in jail.

[Mikey]

If I May-

http://bushbash.flashgressive.de/

[jaqeboy]

I got him 10 times!

[you should fix the link in your post, dude]

[jaqeboy]

Shoe-throwing Iraqi journalist trial is adjourned
Middle East News

Feb 19, 2009, 9:00 GMT

...Montazer al-Zaidi, a journalist for the Cairo-based al-Baghdadiya television station, arrived in court clad in a suit and draped in an Iraqi flag.

People in court waved Iraqi flags as the 30-year-old arrived, and cheered. A crowd gathered outside the court also waved Iraqi flags, and chanted demands for his release.

After listening to witnesses including al-Zaidi himself, a judge at the Central Criminal Court adjourned the trial until March 12 so that the court could ask Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki whether former president Bush had been in Iraq on an official visit. ...

Sounds like a bunch of Porcs in court with him! 

[David]

  
I am suddenly optimistic that they will not railroad him.  If they ask if bush was on an official visit.  The coward commited so many crimes that he almost never travels on official visits to the middle east, or at least none that were pre announced.  He's too afraid of someone who may want revenge.

[jaqeboy]

Why I threw the shoe
I am no hero. I just acted as an Iraqi who witnessed the pain and bloodshed of too many innocents

    * Muntazer al-Zaidi
    *
          o Muntazer al-Zaidi
          o guardian.co.uk, Thursday 17 September 2009 19.30 BST
          o Article history

I am free. But my country is still a prisoner of war. There has been a lot of talk about the action and about the person who took it, and about the hero and the heroic act, and the symbol and the symbolic act. But, simply, I answer: what compelled me to act is the injustice that befell my people, and how the occupation wanted to humiliate my homeland by putting it under its boot.

Over recent years, more than a million martyrs have fallen by the bullets of the occupation and Iraq is now filled with more than five million orphans, a million widows and hundreds of thousands of maimed. Many millions are homeless inside and outside the country.

We used to be a nation in which the Arab would share with the Turkman and the Kurd and the Assyrian and the Sabean and the Yazid his daily bread. And the Shia would pray with the Sunni in one line. And the Muslim would celebrate with the Christian the birthday of Christ. This despite the fact that we shared hunger under sanctions for more than a decade.

Our patience and our solidarity did not make us forget the oppression. But the invasion divided brother from brother, neighbour from neighbour. It turned our homes into funeral tents.

I am not a hero. But I have a point of view. I have a stance. It humiliated me to see my country humiliated; and to see my Baghdad burned, my people killed. Thousands of tragic pictures remained in my head, pushing me towards the path of confrontation. The scandal of Abu Ghraib. The massacre of Falluja, Najaf, Haditha, Sadr City, Basra, Diyala, Mosul, Tal Afar, and every inch of our wounded land. I travelled through my burning land and saw with my own eyes the pain of the victims, and heard with my own ears the screams of the orphans and the bereaved. And a feeling of shame haunted me like an ugly name because I was powerless.
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