Monday, December 15, 2008

Shoe Throwing Incident demonstrates Iraq Victory

This video not only shows the shoe throwing incident, but it also shows President Bush's comments afterwards (which is something you probably won't see on the media.) Can you imagine what would have happened to that journalist had he thrown the shoe at Saddam Hussein? Although the shoe throwing is the ultimate insult in the Arab world, I think it does a wonderful job of illustrating the new found freedoms in Iraq. Once again President Bush exhibits grace under pressure, not to mention some really good reflexes.

15 comments:

Mike West said...

Poor W. Not a good way to remember what should have been a memorable trip to demonstrate how far we've come in those 2 countries. He hasn't been able to catch a break in the last 2 years of his presidency. Even when he's right he's portrayed as being wrong.

J Dub said...

My boss is quick.

vwatt said...

I was waiting for the positive shoe spin!!! ......"we had to destroy the village in order to save it". Now I see that they are burning our flag in the streets and protesting our presence in Iraq again due to Al Sadr stirring up support for the reporter-but I'm sure it must be a Freedom march-they really do love us. At some point we will have to leave and then they can go back to the 11th century and resume killing themselves.

vwatt said...

The reason Bush hasn't been able to catch a break the past eight years is because competent people make their own breaks. His only breaks have come from his Daddy(set him up in oil business, which failed; Daddy got him in the Air Nat'l Guard, Daddy got him into Harvard Business School, Daddy's buddies bankrolled his Texas Rangers deal, and the Supreme Court made him Pres. This is a man who basically means well but is not competent and is in way over his head. Can't wait till his biggest decision will be "how much brush do I clear today?"

Mike West said...

ALL Presidents are in over their heads; especially BO.

Brodad Unkabuddy said...

Wow.MoveOn.org speaks. You folks really believe the Iraqi people and our national interest would have been better served if we had left Saddam in power, don't you? Can you imagine if BO had been the target? By the way, how many times has Barack Hussein been to Iraq? Or even Afghanistan (where the war really should be fought)? I lost count at one.

Brodad Unkabuddy said...

Talk about bankroll, now where did the Obama campaign get all that money? Oh that's right, he's a Democrat. Democrats don't have to account for things like that.

vwatt said...

So what was our goal? I thought Bush said it was necessary to invade in order to avoid a "mushroom cloud" in the US? Guess what- no WMDs existed. If the goal was to get Sadaam because he was a bad man we could have taken him out with a constant barrage of cruise missiles, or a two hundred man Delta Force operation....all better options than squandering a billion dollars a month(which we can't spare) and thousands of casualties...at best, within five years it will be a Shiite dominated theocracy that hopefully will be somewhat "enlightened" and still sell us a little oil.....definitely not worth one dime we have spent on them, not to mention the human cost-and a Dec. 15 poll in the Wash. Post says that 75% of "real" America is in agreement.

Brodad Unkabuddy said...

"Real" America. What's that? Most of the American people couldn't even tell you who the Speaker of the House is. 93% of real America say the Democratic controlled Congress is the worst in history. I wonder what the polls (democrat's decision-making tool) would have been following the defeat of Japan and Germany. Talk about collateral damage. And our mainland was not even attacked. Oh that's right, Saddam had nothing to do with 9/11 or the support of terrorists throughout the world and had NEVER used WMD.

vwatt said...

I guess you would have to ask Sara Palin what "real" America is, as she came up with it. Fortunately, a majorty did not agree with her view of "real" America. Sadaam had NOTHING to do with 911-as per the bipartisan 911 commission report. Anyone who still believes he did or has information about his involvement should turn that info over to the authorities immediately!! Also include photos of the flying "drones" he had loaded up with anthrax and were on the verge of being launched across the ocean to New York.

Mike West said...

I'm a real American from a stupid state.

vwatt said...

Rick Warren is a great choice(seriously) to give the invocation at Obama's inauguration. I actually agree with him on his marriage stance -it's meant for a man and a woman-anything else(gay, android, transsexual,Klingon) gets a separate category civil union license. Looks like Obama may actually try to be President for all America and not just cater to LimbaughLand or Hollywood Fruits and Nuts. What a novel idea... However , I'm sure that now some on the far right will now no longer consider Warren a Christian, just as Limbaugh says that Powell and McCain are no longer Republicans.

NYT 19Dec

President-elect Barack Obama was asked Thursday at his news conference about the furious reaction from some gay-rights groups to his decision to ask Rick Warren to play a role in his Inauguration.

The choice of Mr. Warren, pastor of a megachurch in Orange County, Calif., set off a round of criticism by gay rights groups angered by his support for California’s ban on same-sex marriages. Mr. Warren is an outspoken opponent of abortion and same-sex marriage — litmus-test issues for Christian conservatives.

Mr. Obama defended the decision as part of his effort to involve a broad range of Americans in the nation’s business without sacrificing civility.

“I think that it is no secret that I am a fierce advocate for equality for gay and lesbian Americans,” Mr. Obama said.

He noted that he had been invited by Mr. Warren to speak at his church a few years ago — despite their obvious differences — and added that “that dialogue, I think, is part of what my campaign’s been all about; that we’re not going to agree on every single issue, but what we have to do is to be able to create an atmosphere where we can disagree without being disagreeable.”

“That’s part of the magic of this country,” said Mr. Obama, “is that we are diverse and noisy and opinionated.”


Just like this blog-"noisy and opinionated."

Mike West said...

Hey - whata ya know? A post comment from Vance I totally agree with concerning Rick Warren. I'm sure Warren would say he loves the sinners (all of us) but not the sin. Warren seems to be a pretty balanced guy. Taking over for Billy Graham perhaps when it comes to Presidents & religion.

vwatt said...

And now I even give kudos to Bush for doing the right thing and giving the auto Big 3 a loan and a "chance" to right their ship before three million jobs and a big chunk of our industrial base go down the drain!! It was noteworthy that all he could talk about yesterday was the "effect on the markets" if nothing was done-you could tell it was against all his MBA/free market/capitalism unbridled philosophy to spit those words out; and of course no mention of the "effect" on Joe fender builder with four kids who might lose his job-he just has no connection to real America and the struggles and the polls this fall reflect this fault line within the Republican Party. Of course, Sen. Toyota(McConnell), Sen. Nissan(Corker) and Sen. Mercedes(Shelby) will probably now say Bush is not a "real" Republican-real Republicans do what is right only for their own state and not America, and are willing to let companies go into bankruptcy just to bust those dang unions-gotta purtect those $10/hour non-union jobs down in Muscle Shoals-next thing you know our workers in Bama will be wantin health insurance and all that fancy liberal stuff-we got hospital emergency rooms-that's good nuff( a Bush adviser actually did make the comment about hospital ERs last year)!! end of daily rant... :-) incoming....

vwatt said...

I stand corrected on Bush not commenting about the impact on workers-from a C-Span interview yesterday:

"The other part of my presidency that's been hard is we've had, you know, huge economic turmoil recently," he added.

"I'm just so sorry it's happening. But it is happening and therefore I have made the decision not to let there be a massive collapse, which would hurt the average guy in the street."


Is he still a Republican??? Sounding much too compassionate and not enough conservative!!