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Baghdad: Protester launched a couple of shoes at George W Bush

weapons of mass destruction | 14.12.2008 21:15 | Anti-militarism | Iraq | Terror War | World

A couple of shoes were launched at George W. Bush at a news conference in Baghdad.







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If only they had been hand grenades!

15.12.2008 19:58

I was delighted to see the Iraqi journalist Muntadar al-Zaidi hurl his shoes at war criminal Bush and his puppet Al Maliki. Far from being arrested he should get a medal for expressing what the majority of people in both Iraq and the UK want - a total withdrawal of all foreign forces.

It was great that it has been shown on television around the world and hopefully will act as an encouragement to all those opposed to imperialism and mass murder.

Let us never forget the half million or more Iraqi children murdered by UN (actually US/British) sanctions of 1990 - 2003 and the deaths of a million or more people since the 2003 invasion. One thing, which gets almost no coverage in the mainstream media, is the terrible Iraqi refugee problem. Over four million Iraqis are displaced either internally or externally.

Here for posterity is a video of the incident:
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7783608.stm

Here is Z net article about the million people killed since the invasion:
 http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/14507

Here is an article about Iraqi refugees in Syria:
 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/50000-iraqi-refugees-forced-into-prostitution-454424.html







An admirer of Muntadar al-Zaidi

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Display the following 10 comments

  1. weapons of mass smellyness — clarkes
  2. what will happen to the "offender"? — pat heron
  3. Americian atrocities. — American Murder
  4. Reply to "weapons of mass smellyness" — anti-imperialist
  5. A fine gesture — anon
  6. Pics of Bush senior and Bush junior getting shoed — An admirer of Muntadar al-Zaidi
  7. reply to anti-imperialist — anon
  8. humour — salt & pepper
  9. Does humour really have no boundaries??? — Maria
  10. maria — salt & pepper