What type of footwear would you throw ? by GinoBiffaroni

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What type of footwear would you throw ?

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Sunday, December 14, 2008 11:59 AM

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2008/12/14/bush-iraq.html

Security officials pounced on an Iraqi journalist after he threw a pair of shoes at U.S. President George W. Bush during a news conference in Baghdad on Sunday.

Bush was nearly hit on the head, but ducked out of the way as the man tossed one of the shoes, then another, while the president stood beside Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.

The journalist called Bush a dog before being hustled away.

The president said he didn't feel threatened by the action, and other reporters at the news conference offered their apologies.

The security breach came as Bush made a farewell visit to Iraq, a place that defines his presidency for better or worse, just 37 days before he hands the war off to a successor who has pledged to end it.

Air Force One, the president's jetliner, landed at Baghdad International Airport in the afternoon local time, after a secretive Saturday night departure from Washington and an 11-hour flight.

In a sign of modest security gains in this war zone, Bush was welcomed with a formal arrival ceremony — a flourish that was not part of his previous three trips to Iraq.

But in many ways this was a victory lap without a victory: Nearly 150,000 U.S. troops remain in Iraq fighting a war that is remarkably unpopular in the United States and across the globe.

More than 4,209 members of the U.S. military have been killed in a war that has cost U.S. taxpayers $576 billion since it began five years and nine months ago.

While violence has slowed in Iraq, attacks continue, especially in the north. At least 55 people were killed Thursday in a suicide bombing in a restaurant near Kirkuk.

Bush planned a rapid-fire series of meetings with top Iraqi leaders, including al-Maliki. The two were marking the recent U.S.-Iraq security agreement, which sets a deadline of Dec. 31, 2011, for the withdrawal of all American troops.

Bush's national security adviser, Stephen Hadley, said the agreement was "a remarkable document — unique in the Arab world because it was publicly debated, discussed and adopted by an elected parliament."
An 'increasingly subordinate role' for U.S. forces

Hadley said the trip "shows that we are moving into a different relationship ... with Iraqis rightfully exercising greater sovereignty, we in an increasingly subordinate role."

It was Bush's last trip to the war zone before president-elect Barack Obama takes office Jan. 20. Bush's most recent Iraq stop was over 15 months ago, in September 2007.
U.S. President George W. Bush puts his arm around Gen. Ray Odierno, commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, after arriving in Baghdad.U.S. President George W. Bush puts his arm around Gen. Ray Odierno, commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, after arriving in Baghdad. (Evan Vucci/Associated Press)

Bush was met at the airport by U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker and the top U.S. commander Gen. Raymond Odierno. The president then climbed aboard a helicopter for a five-minute flight to the presidential palace.

Other Iraqi officials on Bush's agenda were Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, the country's two vice-presidents, the speaker of the Council of Representatives and the head of the Kurdistan Regional Government, Massoud Barzani.

The trip was conducted under a cloak of secrecy. People travelling with the president agreed to tell almost no one about the plans, and the White House released false schedules detailing activities planned for Bush in Washington on Sunday.

Bush's visit came after Defence Secretary Robert Gates's unannounced stop in Iraq on Saturday, at a sprawling military base in the central part of the country. Gates will be the lone Republican holdover from the Bush cabinet in the Obama administration.

Obama has promised he will bring all U.S. combat troops back home from Iraq a little over a year after taking office, as long as commanders agree a withdrawal would not endanger American personnel or Iraq's security.

Obama has said that on his first day as president, he will summon the Joint Chiefs of Staff to the White House and give them a new mission: responsibly ending the war.

Obama has he should be able to shift troops and bolster the U.S. presence in Afghanistan. Commanders there want at least 20,000 more forces, but cannot get them unless some leave Iraq.
Security pact replaces UN mandate

The new U.S.-Iraqi security pact goes into effect next month. It replaces a UN mandate that gives the U.S.-led coalition broad powers to conduct military operations and detain people without charge if they were believed to pose a security threat.

The bilateral agreement changes some of those terms and calls for all American troops to be withdrawn by the end of 2011, in two stages.

The first stage begins next year, when U.S. troops pull back from Baghdad and other Iraqi cities by the end of June.

Odierno said Saturday that even after that summer deadline, some U.S. troops will remain in Iraqi cities. They will serve in local security stations as training and mentoring teams, and so will not violate the mandate for American combat forces to leave urban areas, he said.

I like Steel Toe Boots ( only after I tour my dads farm )

Lets party like its 1939

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Sunday, December 14, 2008 3:52 PM

DREAMTROVE

Jellies

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Sunday, December 14, 2008 4:02 PM

PIRATECAT

Bush is a weak liberal, stronger than McCain, Clinton, and closet homo elect. But Damn I would have to kick the rag head's ass for that. It's a family thing. The two headed snake party is still my country's bitches. After punchen him I would pour holy water down his throat and stuff a Ole Waynesboro hamm up his ass. 1st amendment applyies here. Oh yeah if you have a degree don't care about enligtenment.

"Battle of Serenity, Mal. Besides Zoe here, how many-" "I'm talkin at you! How many men in your platoon came out of their alive".

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Sunday, December 14, 2008 4:40 PM

FREMDFIRMA

I'd pick some brand sold at the big box stores produced in a third world county with child slave labor.

Since they've no chance to throw em themselves.

-F

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Sunday, December 14, 2008 6:17 PM

PIRATENEWS

John Lee, conspiracy therapist at Hollywood award-winner History Channel-mocked SNL-spoofed PirateNew.org wooHOO!!!!!!

Steeltoe combat boots covered in blood and dogshlt, made in Commie China.

Here's the video: www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/28223089#28223089
www.msnbc.msn.com/

HILARIOUS! Well done!

White House press whore Dana Parino got a black eye!

Quote:
"The (18-year) war is not over. It is decisively on it's way to being won. America is safer and more secure..."
-George DWI Bush

"This is from the widows, the orphans and those who were killed in Iraq! This is your farewell kiss, you dog!"
-Muntadar al-Zeidi, Al-Baghdadia TV
www.albaghdadia.com

Iraq's President is Jalal TALIBANi

"Lips" Bush has obviously gotten Secret Service training on playing dodgeball.

As head cheerleader at all-male schools I'm sure he got a lot of balls thrown his way.

Too bad Amerikan journos are too busy sucking (up) to do their job.

Now all journalists will be required to be shoeless.

Note how Secret Service did NOTHING to protect Bush after the shoe bomb attack. Bush just stands there like an idiot.

Just like 9/11 and the Pet Goat.

Genocide 2.5-million Iraqis, and he's surprised anyone would disagree with that...

The Iraqi prime minister is smiling yet indifferent, seeing the shoe aimed at Bush...

In retaliation, CIA, MI6 and Mossad bombed an Iraqi restaurant, killing 55 people eating dinner. Iraqi Kurds are Wahabi Jews, like USAma Bin Laden.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7777342.stm

NOTE TO SS SECRET SERVICE: LINE #1 IS A SATIRICAL METAPHOR. IN REALITY I'D MAKE A CITIZEN'S ARREST BASED ON PROBABLE CAUSE FOR MILLIONS OF FELONIES.

"But let me talk about the guy throwing the shoe. It is one way to gain attention. It's like going to a political rally and having people yell at you. It's like driving down the street and have people not gesturing with all five fingers."
-George DWI Bush
www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2008/12/20081214-2.html

"If the people knew what we had done, they would chase us down the street and lynch us.”
—President George H. W. Bush Sr Knight of the British Empire, conversation with US Army Intelligence agent and White House press corps Sarah McClendon, December 1992

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Monday, December 15, 2008 1:21 PM

RUE

I have a vote and I'm not afraid to use it!

"Steeltoe combat boots covered in blood and dogshlt, made in Commie China."

HEY ! I was going to say that !

Well, in reality, I was thinking of the steel-toed workboots I wore when climbing over piles of cow poop and human poop to do some testing.

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Silence is consent.

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Monday, December 15, 2008 1:30 PM

STORYMARK

Me? I'd throw something out of Gene Simmons' closet.

Maybe something like this:

"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."

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Monday, December 15, 2008 2:31 PM

DREAMTROVE

All over iraq, iraqis are throwin shoes at americans. Quick! Let's throw shoes back. This will be a definite improvement over the whole explosives tossing situation.

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Monday, December 15, 2008 3:25 PM

MALBADINLATIN

I would just throw the 3" Peton clamp ons without the boot...when does a shoe officially stop being a shoe and become a deadly weapon?

If that didn't get me results I'd start throwing bear traps...let's see your ducking abilities now!

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