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Raja Kumar
Iraq justice going up by release of show thrower. Way to go Iraq. Hope for the best justice to come out from Iraq, in future.
Jbizzle
To bad he missed. Old dubya did show some quickness though
SuperLib
Odd. I haven't seen that information printed before....
BlackOut
yeah, too bad he missed.
i think, he should run for the next Iraqi president.
smithinjapan
Anyway, the man was tortured as was suspected and which many of the right denied was possible. He's out and free now, though, and will get the heroes welcome he rightly deserves for his actions.
I agree with Jbizzle though in saying bush did show some quickness in dodging the shoes -- but as someone who also dodged any war but wanted to be known as the war president, dodging ought to be considered a specialty. :)
bgaudry
Arabs brought down the Twin Towers, but Bush reduced them to this: throwing shoes at press conferences. Bush is the best!
WayneRooney10
The Shoe Guevara!
Can't wait for the shirt.
Want mine to have the same oversize letters my favourite WHAM ChooseLife! shirt has.
nath
What, no beer? This does not sound like a real party at all. They also never let us know whether he got the shoes back. They belong in the Bush Museum.
seijichuudo9sha
I really want to believe the bit about torture but that would be an admission that Iraq has a free press and isn't controlled by the US State Dept.
ironchef
It would have been beautiful to see Dubya get whacked by those shoes. I guess it proves that quickness is inversely related to brain size. Al-Zeidi should indeed run for PM of Iraq.
SuperLib
Didn't he have a broken arm at one point? Or was that made up, too?
sabiwabi
Yes, and seeing him with a black eye during press conferences.
bushlover
So what if he were tortured? It's his country we shouldn't tell them how to run it after all.
smithinjapan
"So what if he were tortured?"
You mean 'WAS' tortured. This isn't the subjunctive mode you're talking about. Regardless, the torture of another human being in a country that claims to be democratic and above that kind of thing is just plain wrong, particularly when they vehemently denied it after.
"It's his country we shouldn't tell them how to run it after all. Don't Flip Flop on us now."
Man, lay off the hooch. Your posts today have been something else altogether.
isthistheend
I hope someone threw a shoe or two at him and didn't miss!
sharky1
I want to know how he was tortured??? Did they throw shoes at him everyday??? Force him to watch David Letterman??? What did they do???
TumbleDry
bgaudry: wow! your are the king of the generalization...
Taka313
Muntadhar al-Zeidi’s actions, while understandable, were criminal in behavior and also broke the first rule of journalism (report the story; don't become it).
No one should be tortured, ever, no matter what dick cheney says, but he had to expect being arrested for trying to assault a head of state.
Taka
sabiwabi
Do you remember the excuses they used to invade Iraq?
DenDon
from bushlover as well, hahaha priceless