Comments on: Iraqi Man Threw Shoes at Bush

By: Lou

Lou — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 04:51:54 +0000

Hey, Chihuahua

How would you feel if a bomb was dropped on your wedding, killing and injuring all your loved ones? Would you feel more "free"?

And when you tried to leave to go to an adjoining state, guards at the road block shot and maimed you?

How would you like Mount Rushmore to be leveled to make an airfield for the bombers?

And then the invading army set up residence in the White House?

Then the USA was bombed for years with cancer-causing depleted uranium?

Would you be enjoying "freedom", as defined by the culture of the invading county?
Or would you feel like your country got raped?

By: Lucy

Lucy — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 14:17:58 +0000

this is so funny i love it

By: Aadam

Aadam — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 05:11:44 +0000

Would that it hit his bloody face..

By: Rocky

Rocky — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 19:43:21 +0000

jessyz, you couldn't be more off. The Iraqis saw their economy dwindle even before the sanctions were placed on them in 1991. True, the median income is starkly below what it was in the late 1970s (when you-know-who seized power) but their non-oil economy is growing at a great pace, with 7% growth per tear expected until 2010. The amount of revenue for the state has also exploded, which is arguably for the betterment of the lives of the Iraqis. You can read about it all here: http://www.gulfinthemedia.com/files/article_en/321901.pdf

I can understand the sympathy you might have for the welfare of the Iraqi people, but something tells me living under a tyranny would not make you all that comfortable yourself. Do not summarily dismiss it as being acceptable for others.

By: Ajan

Ajan — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 08:57:56 +0000

What a fucking lame comment from the fucking ex president..

By: Rob20

Rob20 — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 08:00:26 +0000

great comments and information, i think its funny how people say that there was so many soldiers died because they all knew where they were going or what it meant to be in the military and i know this because ive lost a brother in this war. He belived in this war and i think that freedom is worth it.

By: SparkS

SparkS — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 06:55:16 +0000

Everyone HATES USA,

I assume from your spelling you are English. If so
the next time you come begging for help to save your country from the next Kaiser or Nazi I think the U.S. should tell you to go straight to Hell. Typical anti America BS. Spout all sorts of lies until their
butt is in a sling then who do they come to for help?
How much American blood was shed in two world wars
for your despicable sorry ass?

By: alex kim

alex kim — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 01:17:53 +0000

I don't like Bush, but the reporter should be beheaded just like it used to be when Saddam was there. Iraq is not worth the dead cockroach I killed this morning. They are just ingrates and we should never have spent the time or the money. I hope US learns that not everyone deserves to live free.

By: Full Cotton Jacket

Full Cotton Jacket — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 01:03:23 +0000

@56 Pete. Short memory, remember the oil was going to pay for the war? Bush failed to even achieve that. Doesn't Costello have one out now? @57 Pete. They didn't go in there for 'democracy' or 'nation-building'. Don't remember the Anthrax/Powell thing? Or the 45minutes to drop a rocket on London? 100,000 plus dead people...damn those ragheads are ungrateful.

By: just a guy

just a guy — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:00:39 +0000

That's what I was trying to say, Lemon.

By: hatim

hatim — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:29:23 +0000

Deserved a boot up da ass...

By: xultar

xultar — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:20:54 +0000

A fitting end to the WORST PRESIDENCY EVAH!

By: egm3

egm3 — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:36:59 +0000

This is actually a very enlightening illustration of why terrorists have to stap bombs to themselves and detonate them in crowds: it's because they can't hit anything they aim at.

Go GW!

By: Leela

Leela — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:17:42 +0000

Discussion this and that. I think that guy would not have suffered any bad consequences (not by Saddam Hussein) if the regime was still in power.
You Americans forget that "the good guy" Mr. Bush has been the ENEMY in that conflict AGAINST the "evil" Iraq. Why would Hussein punish a shoe- attack against the enemy?

By: seb

seb — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 15:45:14 +0000

"All I can report is a size 10,"

pure Genius.

By: Lemon

Lemon — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 15:12:28 +0000

Wow lots of people reading way to much into this clip. It's neat because we see a famous person ducking a shoe which isn't something we see every day. Plus he jokes about it so it isn't very serious incident either. I don't see where the politics are in this clip. Neatorama might be biased to the left but it doesn't show in this clip.

By: Pete

Pete — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:54:56 +0000

I too rolled on the moonbat comment that democracy was not worth it if we had to die for it.

Ah, such leftist brilliance! Let us live in servitude instead, right?

So much for "give me liberty or give me death".

By: Pete

Pete — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:49:19 +0000

Yes Rico... Bush went to steal their oil. We have hundreds of tankers shipping the free oil this way now. That's why oil was so cheap, right? Let me know when Elvis makes a new record.

By: Dan0

Dan0 — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:34:44 +0000

I don't like bush, but i thought this was a bonehead move by the reporter, and an ignorant way to treat the leader of a country. There are better ways to protest then shoe throwing, you moron.

By: Polx

Polx — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 12:44:17 +0000

In the film, when the guy is wrestled to the ground you can distinctly hear the Arabic for

"Don't taze me Bro'"

By: sultan

sultan — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 12:09:13 +0000

i am feeling very sorry for that journalist. dog bush really deserved that. that poor journalist was in jail for 6 months and badly torchored. millions of his people died,along with thousands of american,america got bankrupt,houses ruined ( well i wont give all the list)
but would like to say that any person who would have feelings and care for the human beings would be ready to do such a thing.that journalist knew the circumstances but were man enough to stand for the goodness.

A REMINDER,
bush said that he is bringing war on iraq because of WMD, not because he wanted to bring freedom to the people of iraq.now that things went wrong, he just changed his words. poor those who are badly affected by the media controlled by bush administration and some israeli's chairholders.
feeling pity for those who cant distinguish between right and wrong.
do you guys think that killing 1 million people worth such a thing?

By: Christian Gehrke

Christian Gehrke — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 09:52:21 +0000

Oh my this has sparked a lot of comments.

I for one find this neat because I love Austin Powers and it looks like I am not the only one. Here is a great parody of what I actually seen in my head when I seen bush get a shoe thrown at him.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Db3HsIjqavY

"Who throws a shoe, honestly?" Classic!

By: violet

violet — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 08:58:59 +0000

You people better be nice to America or we will bring democracy to your country too.

By: Larfin Jackarse

Larfin Jackarse — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 08:11:21 +0000

@Evil Pundit

It was Mussolini who made the trains run on time.
Also, the Jews didn't ride for free, most paid with their lives.

And you just proved Godwin's law which makes you an idiot.

By: Larfin Jackarse

Larfin Jackarse — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 07:54:07 +0000

ooooooohhh...I'm getting popcorn.

By: Evil Pundit

Evil Pundit — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 07:53:36 +0000

@jessyz

And at least the Nazis made the trains run on time ....

Heck, the Jews even got to ride them for free!

By: jessyz

jessyz — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 06:58:54 +0000

That was really funny. I am sure al ot of Iraqis would want to do the same. The Iraqis might have been living under a tyrant in the Saddam era but they had jobs, stayed in their homes, had power, running water and food. Right now democracy means nothing. Maybe it is not the United States' place to be meddling with the affairs of other countries, at least not by starting a war. Wars just harm everyone involved. Whatever Bush's true intentions were, he has not really improved the quality of life of the Iraqi people.

By: BenJCarter

BenJCarter — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 06:20:15 +0000

That was funny as hell. Size 10, nice comeback.

Of course if anyone is interested in the facts, the guy chucking shoes was an Egyptian "reporter". (Like they have a free press)

BTW, Iraqi deaths have been tracking downwards significantly post surge.

A majority of Iraqis citizens generally approve of what we did for their country, and have a high expectation things will get better. They want us out, but not yet.

On to Afghanistan. At least with a Dem at the helm, we will hopefully start to hear about the good things we are doing...

By: ted

ted — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 04:57:30 +0000

Wow, we're getting all kinds of kooky comments on this one.

I'm not big on Bush, but that is an excellent dodge and a worthwhile response. I'm surprised he managed to come up with that joke. Good for him.

The one other memorable thing that Bush did was to reassure the entire country after the World Trade Center attacks in 2001. I mean before the whole Iraq business. He was, for at least one point in his career, a leader.

By: Mr. Taco

Mr. Taco — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 04:34:45 +0000

Chihuahua you should know that there is more than one surveys of casualties

the Lancet survey claiming -- 654,965 (392,979-942,636)--

ORB survey claiming 900,000-1.2 million dead

IBC saying 93,000

and WHO and Iraqi Ministry of Health saying 100,000-220,000

Fooled by what?

Saying that Iraqis don't really want U.S. occupation there. Crimes of the ING and IP. Do you not believe them? Go look at videos of themselves, they proudly admit it and show it off, beating old men and children because they are Sunni rather than Shia,destroying mosques of the Sunnis. These aren't "death squads" these are IPs and the ING. Go there you see 10 ft walls separating neighborhoods segregating all neighborhoods from each other.

But don't believe me. For internet arguments go nowhere for the ignorant will stay ignorant even in the face of truth. You and the general public will believe you are doing good fighting the Mujahideen all over the world claiming you will rid the world of all "extremist" Muslims and have only pro-west murtad, and munafiqeen Muslims while your country slowly bleeds to death economically as the USSR did, as you keep making the mistakes they did.