The Iraqi journalist who threw his shoe at President Bush was sentenced to three years in jail. Muntadhar al-Zeidi was found guilty of aggression against a visiting head of state, a crime that under Iraqi law carries a maximum sentence of 15 years. Asked if he had anything else to say in his defense, al-Zeidi responded: “I am innocent. It was a natural reaction to the crime of occupation.”
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I have a PERFECT, (ok average) idea for maddoff and the shoe thrower.
Send Maddy to the Iraqi prison,and shoe guy to Maddy’s penthouse.
Nuff’ said?
Is it fair to punish this guy when he had only 2 pitches? What kind of a game is that?
Hell, he didn’t even get to score a direct hit, shouldn’t count.
I bet we see riots in the streets, shame on them, treating an international hero like that!
1 1/2 years per shoe, can no penalty box time? This guy definitely needs a new agent and sponsorship.
“I only use Abu’s best shoes, is my motto”
GREETED AS LIBERATORS, I TELL YA!
GSTER DATS FUNNY
Maybe he got three years for missing.
gster,
As I understand it, that brand and model of shoe became the hottest footwear in the middle-east for a while, with over half a million pairs sold.
Yeah.. I couldn’t tell if he threw a knuckle shoe or a slider. ????
He’s lucky.
Under Saddam Hussein, he would have been castrated, electrocuted, beaten, put in solitary, then burned alive.
Reggie,
The only thing Saddam wouldn’t have liked about Muntadhar was that he threw a shoe instead of a hand grenade at Bush!
I do not believe Saddam would’ve done all that to him for throwing a shoe at his buddy GWB!
Duh Libs, always in denial about terrorist leaders. These type of people(Libs) disappear in countries like Iraq, forever.
Reginald, have you ever been outa the country?
Maybe Bush and him can be in the same cell! “Whack” “time to go to chow George,I did not miss this time!”
During the three decades of Saddam Hussein’s totalitarian rule, between 3 and 4 million of Iraqs 24 million people fled the country, another estimated 1 million fell victim to state terror in the form of massacres, executions, torture, disappearances and imprisonment. 260 mass graves have been discovered (as of 2004) they contain an estimated 400,000 bodies. A few of Saddam’s victims are shown here.
http://fdd.typepad.com/fdd/files/1.wmv
Daddyboy,
And I wonder why we never kept count of how many Iraqis we killed. Might make Saddam look like a piker!
MASS GRAVES
http://www.9neesan.com/massgraves
Apparently Regualar has never been out of this country?
Regardless of his uninformed opinion, polls all over the world suggest that Obama is well thought of.
Now lets say you and an Obama supporter find yourselves in the hands of Islamic terrorists.
Who’s head will roll first?
Your turn….
Tarkus I think he isn’t well liked in the UK.
But don’t lose hope. Brown is the first world leader he has had a chance to insult. I think he can get a much larger group of world leaders that don’t like him.
BTW Tarkus I haven’t been on much lately but I saw linda tell you what my nic used to be. I understand you aren’t new here. Introduce yourself.
Saad Azzaldeen Arif al Alousi, a member of Fedayeen Saddam Malitia unit 18, was punished for not fully executing his assignment. His arms were broken by his close friend Talab Jum’ah, in front of the unit. Also Limb amputations and tongue amputations.
http://fdd.typepad.com/fdd/files/2.wmv
dadman, did you know (probably not because our MSN did not mention this) that the crime he was hung for had nothing to do with these really shameful atrocities?
Not that it matters, he was gonna die anyway.
The fact is, the only thing he was tried for was the Iraqi gov’t prosecution for attempts on Saddam’s life. I believe the exucute 160+ Shiite civilians for an ambush attempt.
Strange world huh?
OK. I can assure you his approval ratings are better than W’s, in ANY case.
I wouldn’t want to be the judge who handed this sentence down.
What do you bet he lives DEEP in the green zone?
Executions / beheading
http://fdd.typepad.com/fdd/files/3.wmv
I would agree with Regular . . . “He’s lucky.
Under Saddam Hussein, he would have been castrated, electrocuted, beaten, put in solitary, then burned alive.”
I’m Tracy. I have repeated that several times.
I tried to post with my name, but apparently sumbuudy has took that name.
I don’t remember your other nic.
Not really into trying to guess about all that.
Not too important.
Now we’ve been formally introduced….howdy.
During the 1987-88 Anfal campaign against the Kurds in Northern Iraq. As many as 100,000 people were killed. On March 16th 1988 Saddam’s forces dropped mustard gas, nerve agents, and other chemical weapons on Halabja, killing some 5,000 people. It was the first time a government had used nerve agents against its own citizens. This was one of such 40 attacks against Kurdish targets in 1987-88.
http://fdd.typepad.com/fdd/files/4.wmv
Now we’ve been formally introduced….howdy.
Ya’ve howdied but ya ain’t shook.
Iraq — the way it was
MASS GRAVES
http://www.9neesan.com/massgraves
nuff said ??
Forgive me for not wanting to watch beheadings.
We know they happened.
A truly terrible thing.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . later yall
http://www.nwrnetwork.com/radiostations/RealAnswersRadio/player/embedded_player.php?bw=high
Hi Tracy. I didn’t mention W for a reason. He isn’t our prez. Obama is. I was very disappointed that he chose to treat the prime minister this way.
It was childish and short sighted in my own humble opinion.
dadman, my only point was that the Iraqi gov’t chose not to prosecute these (unsanctioned by the Iraqi govt) atrocities.
It is a strange thing that the deaths he was prosecuted for were apparently legal under Iraqi law at the time.
One would think that they would want to kill him for these mass murders.
ok, fair nuff!
I guess I’ve been reading too much lately to have seen this on the boob tube.
I’ll bet the PM is a pretty tough nut in his own right! he’d hafta be.
Dead is dead, doesn’t really matter.
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TARKUS
Posted March 12, 2009 at 3:41 pm | Permalink
Apparently Regualar has never been out of this country?
Regardless of his uninformed opinion, polls all over the world suggest that Obama is well thought of.
Now lets say you and an Obama supporter find yourselves in the hands of Islamic terrorists.
Who’s head will roll first?
Your turn….
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Apparently, you are wrong. I’ve spent ten years of my life overseas.
Most think that Americans are barely tolerable; they are buffoons, cowboys, war mongers and childish compared to their ancient civilizations.
As far as polls all over the world – please – most could give a rats behind about Obama. I doubt the polls reflect anything but the feel good attitudes of Western journalists trying to sell their stories or in this case polls.
Same old Tracy, more faces than a hundred headed hydra.
I’m thinking there’s been more beheadings across the border in our backyard this yr. than in Iraq for the same time period.
Is Bin Laden making a move on the drug trade?
Phant,
Might be. His Afghan buddies seem to have the heroin trade sewn up, so he may be trying for the cocaine market. Enough money there to finance a world takeover!
Take over the drug trade, and buy our weaponry, probably building up an army, we better get that fence up fast!
Regular, I stand corrected.
my apology.
I do not agree with you about the world’s view of Obama though.
We do know what they think of the last bunch though, and rightly so.
Now if you wanna get too personal we’ll just hafta part ways there.
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TARKUS
Posted March 12, 2009 at 7:04 pm | Permalink
Regular, I stand corrected.
my apology.
I do not agree with you about the world’s view of Obama though.
We do know what they think of the last bunch though, and rightly so.
Now if you wanna get too personal we’ll just hafta part ways there.
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Then don’t write checks you can’t cash or make assumptions you can’t back up.
I agree with closing the border, NOW!
As far as OBL taking the coke trade?
No way, the wrong plants from the wrong side of the world.
Also, OBL is a religious extremist.
The Columbians would be far more ruthless than the Taliban could dream of.
Oh so yer sum badd ass huh?
Ok bad ass away.
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TARKUS
Posted March 12, 2009 at 7:10 pm | Permalink
Oh so yer sum badd ass huh?
Ok bad ass away.
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There you go again.
You gonna explode and stomp off the blog again?
I tried to make conversation and you act like poop.
Enough.
Get the chip off yer shoulder.
Seems to me I apologized and u carried on like a fool.
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TARKUS
Posted March 12, 2009 at 7:14 pm | Permalink
I tried to make conversation and you act like poop.
Enough.
Get the chip off yer shoulder.
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Then discuss what is being discussed without making assumptions about other posters.
sizzle sizzle pop pop – can you hear me now? :D
I’ll discuss what I like, when I like.
Thanks for your suggestion.
What’s sizzle sizzle?
It really is a good thing we got Saddam as former presidential press secretary Air Fleisher said yesterday.
“After 9-11 we could not let Saddam attack us a second time!”.
No really he said it yesterday, not in 2001 or 2002
or 2003 he said it March 11, 2009! But that’s Ok compare to the Neo Conservative today that stated that the truth is not a matter to base actions on. What is it when you still believe something as true even after it is proven to be not true? Oh yeah delusional! And what is scary is that there are still some in the Government who are actually listening to them!
I watched that Ari Fleischer interview, dog. I guess several are out on the trail trying to make the last administration look better. Hard job! I doubt they’ll convince more than those often referred to as ‘the 28percenters.’
As far as this interview, I wasn’t too impressed with either man — Chris Matthews or Ari Gleischer. Seems rude not to be able to listen when the other person is talking, and both of them were doing too much talking and too little listening (talking at the same time). Here’s a link to the interview:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/video/
Yeah Linda Mathews drives me nut when he does that, he ask a question of a guest. Then when they start to answer he breaks in and half the time it is nothing really to do with when he or the guest was talking about.
I wish I remember the Neo-Con name that Mathews had on today if it was not so tragic it would be laughable. A lot of the argument of there was a lot of intelligence that said that Al-Qaeda and Saddam were linked. And just because there was no proof that it was true is not a basis to NOT act!
The truth is not a matter to base actions on.
Have you been paying attention to the neocon involvement of Charles “Chas” Freeman withdrawing his name from consideration to head the National Intelligence Council?
I read everything I could find. THis one pretty much sums up what all the others I read said.
Those of us aware of these warmongers must remain vigilant! They hide in plain sight.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-03-10/obamarsquos-mideast-policy-smackdown/
I have not been keeping up with that but read some about it. Odd it was the American Zionists who is more upset then the Israelis. I guess I will never be chosen for that Position either. Not a big fan of the Saudis but have about the same opinion of the Israelis too. But yes we need to keep our eyes open for the actions of the Neo-Conservatives.
More people need to realize how dangerous they can be. It is hard for even me to believe how these delusional, Paranoid, 12 y.o. bullies were able to gain so much control of the U.S. Government. I still thank God that Wolfowitz was not able to convince President Ford to start a shooting war with the Soviets. We think that Iraq was a blood mess!
You know, if Bush had any class at all he would have asked the Iraqi’s to let this poor guy go…he threw a shoe for God’s sake..how much damage could he have done? The only thing he’s guilty of is insulting Bush to his face. The fact that he’s in jail at all is totally stupid.
Mary I agree that 3 years is harsh and you are right it did no damage and it might be doubtful that Bush even understand what it meant. He and his group even after all these years do not know much of the middle eastern culture. I can imagine it now, when it was explained what the throwing of the shoes meant.
Bush saying “well then why don’t he just give me the finger?”.
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Mary_Caruso
Posted March 12, 2009 at 10:02 pm | Permalink
You know, if Bush had any class at all he would have asked the Iraqi’s to let this poor guy go…he threw a shoe for God’s sake..how much damage could he have done? The only thing he’s guilty of is insulting Bush to his face. The fact that he’s in jail at all is totally stupid.
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Iraq has their own constitution and their own laws. Assault can be just an intent to harm and that’s chargeable in the U.S. as well.
It probable the hardest thing we will have to deal with, these countries we liberated have to be their own nations with their own laws. And it may not be pretty, they are still Moslem countries and unless we truly become a imperial power there is nothing we can say about it.
He practiced that a lot!
http://images.google.com/images?q=bush+giving+the+finger&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=tdO5Sar3GofMM8z1mKgI&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&resnum=1&ct=title
Another peek into his lack of class:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVynnbx1Xsc
TARKUS, Good to see your posts. I am sure I am not alone when I say it is actually refreshing to see a legitimate post from a person with some sense of decorum. Unfortunately, this site usually degenerates into name-calling and bullying after about the tenth post or so. Certainly don’t waste your time expecting the majority of posts to be legitimate or a “free” exchange of ideas. I use this site for my morning amusement between a couple cups of coffee. My best to you.
J Galt, I agree with your post.
Sad ain’t it.
I’m re-learning who is reasonable enough here.
If the name calling and bullying come my way I will try to just consider the source(s) and move on without them.
I read “Atlas Shrugged” years ago.
Man that thing drug on forever.
I skipped “The Fountainhead” because Ayn’s ideas are the same themes with different settings.
I bet bush chuckled when he learned of the prison term.
It wasn’t about assault, it was about embarassing their leader.