Yes, this is clear illustration of our victory in Iraq. Ever since we introduced American football over soccer to the Iraqi people, their throwing has improved hundredfold. Yes, this guy's accuracy wasn't the best, but this guy was a gunslinger. His arm strength is good was good. Back in the Iraqi soccer days, that shoe would have fell way short.
This is a perfect illustration of our defeat in Iraq. Iraqis used to throw shoes at Saddam Hussein, now they throw them at Bush. GTFO of Iraq!
Further, he would have used both hands in an overhead throwing motion, and it would have taken too long to reload, so he would have only got one shoe off. Ed O.
This is why I wouldn't vote for any of them. If I were President, I would have called off the Secret Service and went toe to toe with the guy. Throw a shoe at me and IT IS ON MOTHERFUCKER! Like Donkey Kong bitch.
Interesting audio piece on NPR: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=98293176 The reporter says that he's become something of a "folk hero" in Iraq. She also says that she had "trouble finding anyone who condemned his actions" and was a "national hero." Depressing to think that after all the money we've spent and lives we've lost, there doesn't seem to be any outrage at all in Iraq that our President was treated this way. I don't like Dubya, but he's the United States President. It's sad as an American to see the leader of our country, the leader of so many Americans who have sacrificed for Iraq, so disrespected, not just by a guy with a shoe but by a whole region. The best anyone can spin this is, "hey, if somebody tried that on Sadaam they'd be dead!", as though it's some great accomplishment to institute a government that's an improvement over that regime. Oh, and, "I think he was a size 10." That's got to be really ironic. If somebody said, "Go fuck your mother," would you retort, "With a 10 inch dildo?" Of course not. The insult doesn't merit a pithy retort. It should be answered with a raised chin and a cold stare. It just shows how completely out of touch our president was to this insult, and this culture, that he'd reply like he did.
LOL Moron couldn't even hit an old man from point blank range. No wonder Iraq isn't an area known for athletes. Plus Bush was smiling at him. Best thing Bush has done in his second term IMO.
Your commentary on the size ten stuff tells me you are a future Dhimmi. At least until they try to saw your head off, eh? Because I thought that was also an "insult", at least in the Daniel Pearl video. http://www.moveabove.org/ Did NPR mention this insult while glorifying this Iraqi coward? I mean, at least strap a bomb to yourself and kill some innocent people.
Wonder what would have happened to that journalist had he thrown a show at a podium that had Saddam standing behind it?
Oops what? I didn't say Bush was the only one who did it. I was simply making a word-play joke, that applied to Bush, in response to Ed's word-play joke on Obama. Besides, what did Obama dodge?
Oops. Obama didn't dodge military service, he simply didn't volunteer for it. The draft had gone away by the time he came of age, so there was nothing to dodge. barfo
Bush didn't dodge the draft. Clinton did. And you're right, Obama didn't volunteer, yet Bush did. Oops!
the real depressing part is not that there isn't any outrage there, but there is very little outrage here and seem to be a lot of people in the US celebrating this and saying he deserves worse.
Yep. We're a fat and lazy nation. I think we actually need a Depression to separat things. Way too many people seemingly have countless hours to post on these boards while supposedly working. I include myself in this statement. I wonder who is discussing these things on a niche sports forum in, say, Tbilisi?
Huh? I point out that a lot of people in the region seem to be praising this guy, and how depressing I find that our President is treated as such, and you project from that that I am at some point the future I'll be under Shariah law? Whuh? From such a response, I'm guessing you are either a future sandanista, a zapatista or maybe a barista. I shall soon find a site with lots of severed heads to prove my point.
A depression would lead to more unemployment, and thus a rise in our post count. So bring it on! The only thing we have to fear is fear of posting. barfo
Oops. Men who served in the same sort of National Guard units as Bush died in Vietnam and he could have been called as well. I suppose they didn't "volunteer" as well, eh?
Bush volunteered to serve in the military. Obama and Clinton did not. Let's stop this stupid smear. It delegitimizes some otherwise rational points.
