Bush gets shoes thrown at him during speech in Iraq

Can't wait for the spin. I can just hear Cheney saying, "Of course we're being hailed as liberators. That's what they mean when they call you a widowmaker and lob a shoe at your head in that part of the world. Honestly."

Just cultural differences, right?
 
I probably would have done the same thing.

I watched this documentary over the weekend about an Iraqi hospital:

http://www.hbo.com/docs/programs/baghdadhospital/

It blew my mind. It's worse over there right now (or at least when the doc was made) then it was when the war was actually going on. They have no money for even basic hospital supplies over there.

The child you see on the HBO landing page was in the film. They were out of anesthetic so what you see is 4 or so people holding him down while they insert chest tubes into him in order to drain the blood from his lungs. The kid is crying and screaming practically the whole time (I probably would be too without anesthetic). His father and brother died in a bomb blast and he got hit with shrapnel. He was 6 years old in the doc.

Everything breaks down to economics. They have somewhere between a 40-80% unemployment rate over there. We're cheering the drop in oil over here, but over there its killing their economy as most of the food/medical aid comes from government oil revenues.

If throwing shoes is the greatest insult you can gesture towards someone without being outright violent, I probably wouldn't have any shoes left if I lived over there.
 
Maybe it was a CIA operation to boost Iraqi morale.

"Well we can't leave or it'll cause a bloodbath, plus we don't want to. We don't want to give the people any money as we've given all our allocated budget to the corrupt politicians. We can't have troops patrol the streets in meaningful numbers that don't make them sitting ducks as their too busy guarding financial interests. So what can we do to make Iraqi's feel better?"

"I know! We'll let an Iraqi journalist throw a shoe at the President of the US! We'll fly him over special just for the occasion! That'll have the Iraqi's staging victory rallies!"

Worked like a charm I guess.
 
"Dana Perino got a microphone in the eye during the melee"

apparently to replace the one in her mouth
 
WHY OH WHY did he have to duck, i wanted to see that nail him right in the face.... i thought it was funny how he thought it was amusing, and that dorky smile never really left his face, and how secret service just stood there

but i heard the reporter got beat up pretty badly by Iraqi security

OH and the sean hannity snowball was friekin beautiful, and the campaign thought it was hilarious, none of us got in trouble for that :)
 
He's like that knock-off of the James Bond henchman in Austin Powers.

It was a failed assassination attempt.
 
What they didn't show was the guy left his I-wore-them-6-days-in-a-row socks stuffed in the shoes :)
 
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