More Shoe Throwing and Iraqi Reaction
From todays NY Times:
An American military patrol in Najaf on Monday was pelted by shoes thrown by supporters of Moktada al-Sadr, the radical Shiite cleric. In Tikrit, journalists demonstrated in support of the Iraqi reporter who threw his shoes at President Bush during a news conference yesterday. And across Iraq, everyone seemed to have an opinion of the flying footwear incident.
You can read the article the reaction of Iraqis from every walk of life.
Shoe throwing is the new form of protest.
Wouldn’t be surprised if this was coordinated on a relatively-massive word-of-mouth scale throughout Iraq, just sort of a tongue-in-cheek whisper of ‘watch for this.’ Watch al-Maliki… he barely even blinks when the first shoe comes, like he was TOTALLY expecting it, and then he makes that halfhearted swat at the second one without even moving to the side or out of the way.
Gotta give G-Dub credit though, he was quick on the duck.
Oh and can we PLEASE talk about how whatever Secret Service agent was so slow to act that this dude got first ONE, then THE OTHER shoe off before getting tackled by ANYONE?
Hope that’s not the squad that’s gonna be guarding Obama.
Wouldn’t be surprised if this was coordinated on a relatively-massive word-of-mouth scale throughout Iraq
I think you have hit the truth, but not in the way you think.
Bush was lucky it wasn`t Richard Reid, the shoe bombers shoe.