George Bush & The Shoe Throwing Incident

.OrgOwner · 12-15-2008, 11:28 PM

Would anyone like to comment on this? I was impressed at how well George ducked away on the first throw and managed a smile at the same time.

lanbrown · 12-15-2008, 11:42 PM

And people wondered why Saddam ruled the way he did.

.OrgOwner · 12-15-2008, 11:45 PM

Good point, maybe he was just doing what had to be done to keep some sort of order in the country... With all those shoes flying around. Can you imagine the next batch of Nike commercials to hit the media.

lanbrown · 12-15-2008, 11:51 PM

Shortly after we liberated the Iraqi people, I saw why Saddam did what he did. They do like to use their shoes, as the Saddam statues were torn down, they hit it with their shoes there too. Maybe what the Iraqi PM needs to do is force this guy to never wear shoes again and send him to Texas and make him stand on a fire ant hill. Then to a scropion mound.

ghbzorro · 12-22-2008, 7:07 AM

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Would anyone like to comment on this?

INHO that journalist wasted a good pair of shoes. If I had been him I would have stepped in something before tossing them.

Twincam · 12-22-2008, 9:05 AM

Needs to practise his aiming... Definatly.

exit90a · 12-22-2008, 10:02 AM

I wonder if the shoe thrower thought it was worth it after his "interview" with Secret Service?

FB1000inPA · 12-22-2008, 10:23 AM

Well, he gets possibly 5 to 15 years in prison for that.

slickwill · 12-22-2008, 11:06 AM

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Well, he gets possibly 5 to 15 years in prison for that.

No, it isn't worth that much at all and Bush knows it and wants it that way. The guy has a right to his opinion. This is WHY we liberated them. I just hope everyone remember what would have happened to the guy if he had thrown them at Saddam. We just saw a victory for the democracy in Iraq. Was it disrespectful, yes, but it still shows why we went there and that we WERE successful.

FB1000inPA · 12-22-2008, 11:12 AM

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No, it isn't worth that much at all and Bush knows it and wants it that way. The guy has a right to his opinion. This is WHY we liberated them. I just hope everyone remember what would have happened to the guy if he had thrown them at Saddam. We just saw a victory for the democracy in Iraq. Was it disrespectful, yes, but it still shows why we went there and that we WERE successful.

Nope, according to the current laws he will get 5 to 15 years if he is guilty according to the BBC from this morning.

Stu748R · 12-22-2008, 11:25 AM

They obviously werent British Army boots as they would have fallen apart mid air...........................

MSGT-R · 12-22-2008, 3:31 PM

Too bad he didn't catch it as it flew by.

Pweezy · 12-22-2008, 3:39 PM

I personally wish it woulda hit his @$$

Bucko@buck88.ka · 12-24-2008, 8:03 AM

Just for fun Guys

Sock and Awe!

setanta · 12-24-2008, 8:37 AM

"Liberated" haha love they way you guys throw that word around and the worst bit is i think you belive it or maybe you do have a little intelligence and are taking the piss and the laugh is on me for missing the point.
The good point is that the shoe didnt have to hit him the point was made by the throwing, it was niece to see a normal iraqee person getting a chance to make an opinion in their terms

FB1000inPA · 12-24-2008, 10:08 AM

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The good point is that the shoe didnt have to hit him the point was made by the throwing, it was niece to see a normal iraqee person getting a chance to make an opinion in their terms

Yep, I wonder who he has to thank for being able to "make an opinion in his term?" I doubt it would have happened during Saddam's reign.

pwrpapa · 12-30-2008, 7:09 PM

Don't shoe me bro!!!!!!!!LOL

Twincam · 12-30-2008, 7:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Bucko@buck88.ka

Just for fun Guys

Sock and Awe!

Check who the top scorer is... Hmmm...

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I doubt it would have happened during Saddam's reign.

Talking about him... Did anyone see his Rolls Royce on Ebay for a staggering £150,000-185,000GBP? It was a Maroon convetible/convertable...

Item number: 260317000986 (Type it into Ebay)

Bucko@buck88.ka · 12-31-2008, 5:15 AM

[quote=Twincam;755009]Check who the top scorer is... Hmmm...

Never noticed that before

lanbrown · 01-03-2009, 2:41 AM

I think they released him and he went to Miami.
Thousands of shoes tie up Miami freeway traffic - Yahoo! News

Surffrog · 01-06-2009, 8:27 AM

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Originally Posted by Stu748R

They obviously werent British Army boots as they would have fallen apart mid air...........................

How true

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Originally Posted by Bucko@buck88.ka

Just for fun Guys

Sock and Awe!

Nice one Bucko. That was good for a giggle.

lanbrown · 01-31-2009, 5:06 PM

Iraq sculpture honoring Bush shoe-thrower removed - Yahoo! News

Surffrog · 02-02-2009, 6:50 AM

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Iraq sculpture honoring Bush shoe-thrower removed - Yahoo! News

I can't believe that someone went to all the trouble to make the bloody thing let alone the government going to all the trouble to make them take it down.

lanbrown · 02-02-2009, 7:50 AM

The irony of it all, would that "journalist" be able to do that without what Bush did? The answer is no; which really shows disrespect. I guess I have the feeling that if they don't want us there, then we should leave and when they have 20 or 30 years of civil unrest, they know who to thank, the shoe thrower.

They had to take it down as they received government assistance.

steingar · 02-02-2009, 3:48 PM

Some guy sends in his army to blow up and then occupy my country. It goes to hell in a handbasket as a result. He then comes for a visit. I'd be throwing something bigger and somewhat more destructive than a shoe.

lanbrown · 02-03-2009, 1:22 AM

You make it sound like Iraq was a nice place under the regime of Hussein. You have multiple countries sending troops to Iraq. I guess we should have stayed out and let Hussein kill people as he wished.

ghbzorro · 02-03-2009, 2:26 AM

Finally! An intelligent suggestion. Yes, that would have been the right thing to do. "Regime Change" is codespeak for Imperialism. Not all heads of state, not all governments, not all countries are nice. Never were, never will be. Get over it.

Surffrog · 02-03-2009, 4:56 AM

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The irony of it all, would that "journalist" be able to do that without what Bush did? The answer is no; which really shows disrespect. I guess I have the feeling that if they don't want us there, then we should leave and when they have 20 or 30 years of civil unrest, they know who to thank, the shoe thrower.

They had to take it down as they received government assistance.

While I take your point, Ian, I think perhaps you were looking at it from a different angle to me. I just meant I thought it was so silly that someone made so much of one incident.

Now, the significance of that incident wasn't missed on me. Iraq was not a good place to live before the US went in, but there WAS a form of peace. As long as you kept your head down, the chances were that you'd get left alone. One thing Sadam did manage to do was kept the two main warring factions apart. Once that regime fell apart, those warring factions took it as a green light to fight for supremacy again. Only this time they were met with US forces. This very fact meant that they would be given funding from wealthy Islamic fundamentalists who would otherwise never have got involved. Hence the difficulty the troops had and continue to have over there.

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Finally! An intelligent suggestion. Yes, that would have been the right thing to do. "Regime Change" is codespeak for Imperialism. Not all heads of state, not all governments, not all countries are nice. Never were, never will be. Get over it.

True, but may I point out that Sadam was himself in power due to a "regime change" engineered by the US. That said, now he is out of the way, I think it is time to let the Iraqis attempt to do things there own way. Roll the dice and see what they come up with. If they f**k it up, well that's life.

lanbrown · 02-03-2009, 11:15 PM

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Now, the significance of that incident wasn't missed on me. Iraq was not a good place to live before the US went in, but there WAS a form of peace. As long as you kept your head down, the chances were that you'd get left alone.

I do have to disagree; what about the 100,000 Kurds that were killed by the hands of Saddam. If you were a group liked by Saddam, you were fine, but if you were in a group he despised, then well, you time was ticking away.

Surffrog · 02-04-2009, 4:18 AM

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I do have to disagree; what about the 100,000 Kurds that were killed by the hands of Saddam. If you were a group liked by Saddam, you were fine, but if you were in a group he despised, then well, you time was ticking away.

That's what I was saying, Ian. He used violence as a means of keeping the peace. I never said it was always peaceful. After he did that, most people kept their heads down.