Geesh ... I take a little time off, to chill out, catch a football game, or two, and all hell breaks loose ...
Shoes flying all over the place ...
And just what page, or section, of the Bush Legacy Project, does this come from?
Bush Dodges Shoes Thrown by Iraqi Journalist
From McClatchy;George W. Bush made his last visit to Iraq as president on Sunday. But instead of highlighting progress from the "surge," it became a reminder that many Iraqis see him not as a liberator who freed them from Saddam Hussein but as an occupier who pushed their country into chaos.
Leave it to The Commander Guy, to go off on a "Mission Accomplished" victory lap and be greeted, as The Bush Grindhouse long propagandized, like a "liberator".
As Bush finished remarks that hailed the security progress that led to a U.S.-Iraq agreement that sets a three-year timetable for an American withdrawal, an Iraqi television journalist leapt from his seat, pulled off his shoes and threw them at the president. Striking someone with a shoe is a grave insult in Islam.
"This is a goodbye kiss, you dog," the journalist, Muntathar al Zaidi, 29, shouted.
Bush ducked the first shoe. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki, standing to Bush's left, tried to swat down the second. Neither hit the president. Another Iraqi journalist yanked Zaidi to the ground before bodyguards collapsed on Zaidi and held him there while he yelled "Killer of Iraqis, killer of children." From the bottom of the pile, he moaned loudly and said "my hand, my hand."
Zaidi was hauled to a separate room, where his cries remained audible for a few moments.
It would be fitting, especially with the Court-Appointed-President's party attempting to kill off unions, to stand by and watch Detroit sink (reprising their positions of Katrina-battered New Orleans), if the UAW workers, as well as all American, sent their old shoes to Dubya, in a symbolic gesture of supporting the sentiments of the Iraqi journalist, Muntathar al Zaidi
Just address them to "Son of a dog", or "Son of a thousand dogs".
I'll be waiting, watching, to see how soon The Worst President Ever makes another one of those mocking videos, ducking shoes, much like he pretended to look for WMDs under his desk.
Bonus Zapatos del Perro Riffs
Mustang Bobby: WMD - Wingtips of Mass Destruction
Jonathan Stein: Iraqi TV Journalist Throws Shoes at Bush at Press Conference
BagnewsNotes: Lame (Duck) Iraq Visit Guarantees Bush Shoe-In As Worst President Ever
Andrew McLemore: In final Iraq visit, Bush ducks a pair of shoes
Sunday, December 14, 2008
"Son of A Dog!"
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