I Just Got Up From Sleep To Find Out 2 Shoes Were Thrown At Bush In Iraq.

I think You Forgot About The Peoples Killing is Worst Sin in Chiristanity as Well & Your Bush Killing Peoples Like a Aunts For Just OIL What About You Don't blame Islam Blame Yourself & If We Compare Bush as a cruel wolf Wolf feeling a shy.

Huh?

been away a month and still haven't learned good manners.

hornswaggled --you said exactly what I was thinking! Thank you! To danishcanadian --President George W. Bush did not single-handedly send troops overseas. Our Congress voted for the sending of troops. Like Hornswaggled said, the U.S. operates on democracy. I have the utmost respect for President Bush and have been supportive of his actions. The throwing of shoes at President Bush was a huge showing of disrespect. Now, I just wonder what would have happened to an American throwing shoes at an Iraqi leader???

No, Bush was not a POW. Mccain was though.

Most Arab heads of state would likely demand that he be beheaded if he'd done it to them. Lucky for him we have a more civilized way of dealing with such things.

In Morocco, one of my husbands friends was put in jail just for writing "God, Country, Barcelona [the soccer team]" on a board at school... the saying is "God, Country, King" so yeah. I agree that this is a huge insult, much more of an insult that words, because throwing anything at someone implies the intent to hurt that person. And that reporter was not just trying to gain attention, as the President said. He was showing an extreme hatred toward the US President. Also, it is one thing for someone to do that on the street, but he as a reporter should have certainly conducted himself more professionally.

They should sell the shoe on ebay.

I don't think that journalist meant it as an insult against the whole USA but rather at our current Dimwit-In-Chief. Annie

clrumfelt if you had to live in Iraq and deal with the war on a regular basis i'm sure you would not be outgoing at being grateful to Bush. Its easy to say good things when your not in the middle of a warzone and dealing with the trama and the tragedies.

I think it is just a shame that the shoes missed. I think he has a cheek going to Baghdad and telling them that the war is not going to end when it should never have started in the first place. I cannot believe that he is still pretending that he had a valid reason to go to war when we all knew there were so weapons and that the whole thing was just an excuse to invade.

Bush should be able to keep the shoes.

lol--i bet you 9/10 he said the same thing, he's a cowboy!!

Well maybe America (Bush) had helped the Iraqis in liberating fro the reign of Saddam but take note also what disaster that war had brought to them. They had been bombed a lot, killing innocent people and destroying a lot of properties in Iraq. I would understand how that man felt (the one throwing the shoes). "This is for the widows, the orphaned and all the damages" this was uttered by the man as he threw those size 10.

Oh I think they have a right to be upset. But I do not think Bush is completely to blame. His major blame is going into Iraq in the first place. After that is two people's fault. 1. THe Iraqi people for their inability to not fight amongist themselves. They started a civil war. If they could have just worked together to set up their government and compromised things would be a lot better and father along in the process of rebuilding. Not to mention a lot of lives would have been saved. 2. Iran. They have been sending troops into Iraq for a long time now to keep the country unstable. They want the war to keep going and have done everything short of declaring war on Iran to do it. They are training and giving supplies to insurgents to keep the fighting going.

Not everyone in Iraq wanted to get rid of Saddam, especially the Sunnis. Also, a lot of people had family killed in the war. So you really can't look at the situation so narrow-mindedly, not everyone in Iraq benefited from the war.

Well when you got alot of people in a room theres no way to read all their minds especially when the weapon is a shoe.

i give Bush props, he handled that situation much gracefully than I can say others--kept a smile on his face the first and second shoe thrown, w-o-w, go President

I don't know suspenseful maybe I will. It just depends on how good Obama is as president. Only time will tell.

Actually, that's only true to a certain extent. Congress approved sending troops in, but they didn't approve a war, Bush declared that without approval. And if someone threw a shoe at Obama in Iraq, it wouldn't make any sense, because he didn't want to invade Iraq in the first place. Also, that hasn't even happened, so where are you pulling this double standard out of?

maybe

Your confused with somebody else. George W. Bush is not a POW.

lol...you're funny

When Bush decides to write his memoir about his years as president he may need some high blood pressure pills for all the mistakes he can slow down and reflect on.

I think that by refusing to act insulted he belittled what the man was trying to do. If someone isn't insulted by your actions you've failed and that's what happened here.

Very good point of view Taskr36.

Yeah thats true.

Hes definitly far from perfect but all U.S. Presidents had to be smart in order to at least get to that level. Bill Clinton had a very high IQ from what i've heard and was probably one of the smartest U.S. Presidents their was.

He about got fed anyway without their help.

I really don't think he ducks the issues. Even though hes U.S. President there still only so much he can do as one person.

I found out about it right before I posted this discussion.

Theres a such thing as copycats. Whos going to out do the shoe throwing reporter. Maybe a woman with high heels. Ouch that could hurt. I don't like copycats.

Those silly republicans. Next you think you know they'll be acting like it's a big deal for people to fly planes into buildings.

Is a day as usual in Iraq for the Iraqi official. He gives most of his speeches while bombs are going off.