It was going to happen shoener or later.....

[Kamal]

Re: It was going to happen shoener or later.....

The problem, though, is that notwithstanding his ample justification and the fact that the throwing of a shoe is largely a symbolic act designed to show strong contempt, had it hit Bush in the face, it could have led to some significant physical harm. Even though I agree that Bush might deserve it, particularly coming from an Iraqi, I'm mostly just saying that we shouldn't set a precedent where we decide that acts of physical violence, regardless of degree, are acceptable as to world leaders. Otherwise, you get into this absurd sliding scale analysis where you have to decide what level of violence is appropriate as to each leader under the circumstances. There are things that we can all agree would be inappropriate to throw, like a grenade, but what if he threw a baseball? A 2x4? Was his shoe hard-soled or soft-soled? Nerf football? Banana cream pie? Was the pie in a aluminum tin, or a ceramic dish? It just gets ridiculous, and the better practice is just to have a bright line rule that throwing shit at world leaders is verboten. Pick another way to show your contempt.

In the same vein, Bush didn't take a fly swatter to rid the earth of Sadam. Yes this comparison may not be in the same league of a reporter throwing a shoe at a President vs. a President waging war with another President and destroying his nation .... but .... we'll agree to disagree.

Imo he visited a country where (possibly) the greatest way to disrespect someone would be to chuck a shoe at them (vs. probably chucking pies in the West) so it's not extraordinary that Bush was greeted with 2. Of course if you present the varied chuckable items (i.e. 2x4, baseball, etc.) I imagine that people walking into a Presidential Press Conference would be screened for, and stopped if such items were found on their person.

[DIDI]

Re: It was going to happen shoener or later.....

cool under fire - despite being probably the biggest twat ever to walk on this planet

Nup, just too stupid to take it all in. The rat cunning ducked ! A bit like when he heard about 911

[dig72]

Re: It was going to happen shoener or later.....

Pick another way to show your contempt.

In an ideal world, Bush and his partners in crime should be tried and if found guilty, hung asap. But we all know that it's not going to happen.

So how do Iraqis seek justice in this case?

[madmrmojo]

Re: It was going to happen shoener or later.....

He is most definitely a rat bastard!
But a quick one indeed.