Comments on: Bush Dodges Shoes in Iraq http://www.eatbees.com/blog/2008/12/15/bush-dodges-shoes/ "If not now, when?" Wed, 07 Jul 2010 09:20:54 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Lucy http://www.eatbees.com/blog/2008/12/15/bush-dodges-shoes/comment-page-1/#comment-26960 Lucy Sat, 20 Dec 2008 14:32:31 +0000 http://www.eatbees.com/blog/?p=709#comment-26960 this is so funny i love that guy this is so funny i love that guy

]]> By: eatbees http://www.eatbees.com/blog/2008/12/15/bush-dodges-shoes/comment-page-1/#comment-26304 eatbees Tue, 16 Dec 2008 06:54:58 +0000 http://www.eatbees.com/blog/?p=709#comment-26304 Richard, if you think the Iraqis "are their own country again" because of President Bush, doesn't that put them in the perverse and degrading position of thanking a foreign army for their own freedom? Do you think that we Americans would tolerate that, if it happened to us? I'm sure that most Iraqis would have been happy to see the overthrow of Saddam, but they never asked us to invade their country and do it for them, certainly not at the cost of hundreds of thousands of innocent lives. Why should they be grateful now? If you want the Iraqis to act more like our Founding Fathers, I'm all in agreement with you. That means demanding their rights, their independence, and the speedy departure of the foreign occupier. To me it looks like the journalist, Muntadar al-Zaidi, acted in the spirit of our Founding Fathers. Maybe Alexander Hamilton would have been too proper to throw a shoe at the foreign tyrant, but I could imagine Ben Franklin doing it, or certainly Tom Paine. Richard, if you think the Iraqis “are their own country again” because of President Bush, doesn’t that put them in the perverse and degrading position of thanking a foreign army for their own freedom? Do you think that we Americans would tolerate that, if it happened to us?

I’m sure that most Iraqis would have been happy to see the overthrow of Saddam, but they never asked us to invade their country and do it for them, certainly not at the cost of hundreds of thousands of innocent lives. Why should they be grateful now?

If you want the Iraqis to act more like our Founding Fathers, I’m all in agreement with you. That means demanding their rights, their independence, and the speedy departure of the foreign occupier.

To me it looks like the journalist, Muntadar al-Zaidi, acted in the spirit of our Founding Fathers. Maybe Alexander Hamilton would have been too proper to throw a shoe at the foreign tyrant, but I could imagine Ben Franklin doing it, or certainly Tom Paine.

]]> By: Richard Huether http://www.eatbees.com/blog/2008/12/15/bush-dodges-shoes/comment-page-1/#comment-26271 Richard Huether Tue, 16 Dec 2008 00:49:42 +0000 http://www.eatbees.com/blog/?p=709#comment-26271 This journalist showed no bravery at all. I would have like to have seen him throw his shoes at Saddam Husseini and see if he lived to see another day. President Bush and the war that the United Nations was to chicken to fight after Saddam Husseini stuck his nose at the UN for years with those stupid ineffective resolutions the UN always vote on with no action to back them up. Iraq can now be their own country again thanks to President Bush. Good thing our Founding Fathers did not act some of these Iraqi people or we would be speaking Old English and pay our respects to the Queen and the Prime Minister of England. This journalist showed no bravery at all. I would have like to have seen him throw his shoes at Saddam Husseini and see if he lived to see another day. President Bush and the war that the United Nations was to chicken to fight after Saddam Husseini stuck his nose at the UN for years with those stupid ineffective resolutions the UN always vote on with no action to back them up. Iraq can now be their own country again thanks to President Bush. Good thing our Founding Fathers did not act some of these Iraqi people or we would be speaking Old English and pay our respects to the Queen and the Prime Minister of England.

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