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You’ve seen the video and if you haven’t a friend has sent it. In fact you probably want to give journalist Muntader al-Zaidi, the man who threw two shoes at President George Bush, a few bucks in appreciation.
When I saw the scene on Sunday, a few random thoughts came up: where were the Secret Service? I can forgive one shoe but al-Zaidi was able to throw two of them before he got tackled. Call me a worry wart but that implies slack security.
President Bush, for all of his faults, is a rather nimble fellow. If it were me, I would have been clocked by one of those projectiles. The president even had his trademark smirk when the second shoe went by him, a look I’m sure was used back in the day when he was the dodge ball champion of the playground.
The last thought is that for all of the problems with the Iraq War (torture, lousy intelligence, terrible planning, etc., etc.), al-Zaidi would have never thrown shoes at Saddam Hussein and lived to tell the tale. And the Iraqis now calling the journalist a folk hero would have been clamoring for his death.
That’s incredible that there are people who still try to justify this war (like saying that being able to throw a shoe at someone is a right!), when Bush attacked illegally Iraq unprovoked, lying about the reasons (there were no weapons of mass destruction, etc) and thus killing and torturing people.
Would you like your country to be invaded – and no succeeding at bringing the country peace – destroying museums, torturing people, killing children ?
Al-Zaidi had all the rights in the world to throw shoes at this war criminal !