Baghdad, Iraq – A journalist has thrown a pair of shoes at George W. Bush, as the President arrived in Baghdad on an unannounced farewell visit to Iraq.
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The Iraqi journalist threw the shoes, when the US president was shaking hands with the Iraqi prime minister Nuri al-Maliki in his office in Baghdad on Sunday, AFP reported.
The Iraqi who was sitting in the third row ‘jumped up’ shouting “It is the farewell kiss, you dog,” the report says.
He then threw his shoes one after the other towards Bush. The president was reportedly not hurt, as the shoes did not hit him. Iraqi security staff ‘frogmarched’ the journalist out.
The shoe was intended for Al-Maliki not for Bush
what kind of security guards dose the president have could have be in the shoes a bomb
This guy isn’t related to the “shoe bomber”, is he????
ha ha
maybe he was just trying to show the president that things are so good in Iraq that they have enough shoes.. even to throw out some pair.
One shoe missed their target by about 15 feet the other passed over bush’s head, Bush said, it dosnt bother me
Mistama he was practicing chalitza….got a little confused and spit at his wife threw the shoe…..
This journalist sees the amount of respect the president gets from journalists in our country.. No wonder he’s throwing shoes.. I’m suprised that the NBC reporters didn’t attack him yet!! These people are shameless!!!
I hope this so-called “journalist” realizes that if not for Bush he would be killed by Saddam for such an act…
Where’s a little Hakuras Hatov?? Its finally under control there. Probably the only success of the Bush administration..
WAS IT SHABBBOS SHOES
Mr. Obama, I hope you are watching.. When you become president, don’t think for a second that these animals in the arab world will respect you 1 oz. More.. They hate us with a passion.. Bring all our troops home!! From all over the world!!Shut the borders.. Put our troops on the border to protect us..And let them kill each other.. Let’s see how long they will survive without any help from us..
I hope this so-called “journalist” realizes that if not for Bush he would be killed by Saddam for such an act…
Let’s see how this guy feels when the shoe is on the other foot.
In Arab culture, throwing shoes is a sign of contempt. Even showing someone the bottom of your shoe is a sign of contempt, and it’s about the rudest thing you can do. So this guy wasn’t necessarily trying to hurt the President, but to insult him. That goes along with calling him a dog, which is a terrible insult in Arabic, even worse than in Yiddish.
The shoe was intended forBush not for Al-Maliki
ha ha haaaa
White House Press Sec. Dana Perino was hit n d eye w/a microphone as security tried to restrain the man who threw the shoe.
And I thought that Bush said that the US intervention was welcomed.
Bush deserves what’s coming to him, He humiliated the Iraqi people. It is time for him to be in the same shoes. I praise the journalist who has the guts to do so.
Actually, this person is a hero to most of the world. Just that most in the world would not dare and have the courage and deal with the consequences; and they rather it be two stones, which should at least have him get stitches, or even worse, and most Americans will agree with it.
I remember when in the pre Iraq war days, when Powell was in the UN presenting the FACTS. Whoever dared say otherwise was booted at a fool and stupid American. The French and Arab leaders who tried to advise us otherwise, were shouted down and their wine boycotted. Myself and one other person in my shul were probably the only STUPID lefties in shul who dared warn that……. the French Chirac might know better then us after all… But we yidden are very right always..
Yes; we should have thrown shoes at him back then.
go Muntadar al-Zeidi; GO!!! do what we all want to!
Where the hell was the secert service????????? The president of the United States is attacked and there was no one there to protect him! Despite how you might feel about him, he is the president of the most powerful country in the world. After the first shoe was tossed that guy should have had a bullet in the head and the president should have been wisked away and out of harms way. What would have been the outcome if he tossed two grenades???????????? Everyone on that detail should be fired and we should get some real heros like there were when Reagan got shot.
Interestingly, I think this incident says more about what Iraq has become than what Bush did to Iraq. A place where you can actually insult leaders and live to see another day. Ironically, an act of protest reassures the goals of the person he is protesting.
See the Dicta.
The Iraqi want to show him that only because of bush they are going with shoes, so Mr bush you take it back.
I am just waiting for the other shoe to drop, a la Nikita Krushev
It’s still better than vomiting on a president of an other country.
Did The Security Take Him Out With The Shoes?
No problem the American army can go home they can take care of any problem, even what secret service, can’t! NABECH
Hey Monseyer #28
Besides the fact that u sound like a self hating jew…
Let me educate u a little..
1) All your lefty friends like Clinton, Kerry supported the war back then..
2) Chirac “lost” big time!! For a reason!! Bush (in ’04) did not!!
3) The fact that the lefty Powell thought they are a real threat, just proves to me that everyone was on the same boat back then.
4) Look at Iraq today, It’s a SUCCESS!! And you & your lefty media have no other choice but to agree!!
So go back to your SHUL and tell your other left buddy that for a change you can be proud of your country! Not bash it!
wow check out bush’s reflex’s
Shoes to get the message across concerning Presidents is the world custom. In 1960 the President of Russia, Nikita Khruschev, banged with his shoe in the UN to get a message across.
God Bless You Dear Reporter .. As Bush Said We Are Free Countery !!
oh what a great safe in iraq ahhhhhhh
How embarasing to the secret service!
This is the most powerful man in the world!
What a shame
The West! Plenty of Americans Indians Brits on and on, had their throats slit. Just two weeks ago im Mumbai, they were looking not for Jews. They said Brits or Americans, should come forward. Arabs are brutal terrorists, the question is why dont so called liberal Arabs call them out for it and fight them.
How many Jewish people where arrested by his justice department and sentence to 15-25 years in prison ?????
Didn’t lowers from his justice department just said in the Rubashkin case that
Every Jew is a flight risk
Mr. bush you are leaving office good riddance
That reporter should be taken out and Shot…..This is the president of the United States of America , even if you dont respect him, you have to respect the office.
Mr bush: shoes belongs on the legs not on the head
Why is this so complicated to understand Mr. bush
What a dumb antisemit !!!!!!!!!!!
That clumsy oaf of a man Bush has upset the whole Arab world. For what? Oil!. In Europe we are still suffering the consequences of Hitler’s ill thought out war. Far from modernising and improving the country Bush has set up huge grieviences which won’t be solved for generations to come. Call that Leadership. I call it stupid bloodymindedness.
and by the end of the day he is still gona sell that shoe on ebay
Looks like Al_Maliki should be signed by the Jets or Giants. He sure can deflect!
And we made fun of Nikita Khrushchev slamming his shoe about the US now we have to deal with flying shoes. good reflex bush
lucky bush that it wasnt high heeled pointy shoes thrown on him. It wouldve stabbed him to death.
I don’t like what this idiot so called reporter did and what he tried to do. but after the fact I say: good. Good that it happened, let president bush and the whole wide world know that the Muslims are not level handed, normally civilized people… now everybody will understand Israel better.
The prez has got those catlike reflexes-nice moves prez were gonna miss ya
I think all he wanted was for bush to be in his shoes! Now the president can say’hey i was in their shoes so i know what’s good for them’!
I wonder how much the bush library will offer for that shoe.
I wonder how much the bush library will offer for that shoe.
.I like to know how many of you VOTE for this OIL COMPANY YES MAN………….
To late for me but i hope some day they bring our JOB’S back.?
And that will happen when you buy MADE IN —–U.S.A
Where did this guy learn to aim? Seems he is a part of the Iraqi army. The first shoe went 15 feet of aim and the second almost hit his president, not Bush.
they guy took off his shoes and people lived?!? i guess he washed his smelly feet this morning.
aside for that, the guy should be hanged.