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undeterred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-14-08 11:58 PM
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Remember him like this.
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NNadir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-15-08 12:03 AM
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1. What I'd like to remember is his trial in the Hague.
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-15-08 12:04 AM
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2. Oh, I will, my dear undeterred!
I most certainly will!

:evilgrin:
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elshiva Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-15-08 12:26 AM
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3. Awesome! Thanks
Edited on Mon Dec-15-08 12:45 AM by elshiva
President Bush ducks as the shoes are thrown

A surprise visit by US President George Bush to Iraq has been overshadowed by an incident in which two shoes were thrown at him during a news conference.

An Iraqi journalist was wrestled to the floor by security guards after he called Mr Bush "a dog" and threw his footwear, just missing the president.

The US president has now continued to Afghanistan to inspect troops there.

He arrived before dawn at Bagram air force base, and is due to hold talks with President Hamid Karzai.

Earlier in Baghdad, Mr Bush and Iraqi PM Nouri Maliki signed the new security agreement between their countries.

The pact calls for US troops to leave Iraq in 2011 - eight years after the 2003 invasion that has in part defined the Bush presidency.

If you want the facts, it's a size 10 shoe that he threw
US President George W Bush

Speaking just over five weeks before he hands over power to Barack Obama, Mr Bush also said the war in Iraq was not over and more work remained to be done.

His previously unannounced visit came a day after Defence Secretary Robert Gates told US troops the Iraq mission was in its "endgame".

'Size 10'

In the middle of the news conference with Mr Maliki, Iraqi television journalist Muntadar al-Zaidi stood up and shouted "this is a goodbye kiss from the Iraqi people, dog," before hurling a shoe at Mr Bush which narrowly missed him.
With his second shoe, which the president also managed to dodge, Mr Zaidi said: "This is for the widows and orphans and all those killed in Iraq."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7782422.stm
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Lionel Mandrake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-15-08 01:02 AM
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4. Too bad he missed. nt
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av8rdave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-15-08 01:48 PM
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14. Even though the shoes missed, his words were heard worldwide
Priceless!
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MrsBrady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-15-08 06:50 AM
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5. Mr Zaidi: I think I love you
:+

:yourock:
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MrCoffee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-15-08 01:17 PM
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6. Nice aim, dork
Did he not think to practice his shoe flinging before the big show? Gotta work on the fundamentals, kids.
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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-15-08 01:18 PM
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7. I thought he was dead-on...
but that Bush has quick reflexes and ducked.

The second shot was a little high.
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MrCoffee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-15-08 01:22 PM
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9. To be fair, he had the second shoe in the air in really fast time
I was amazed at how quick he got it off and flung.


I was equally amazed that Prezident Monkeyboy didn't throw a shoe right back. That's the kind of classy move we expect from The Decider.
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billyskank Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-15-08 01:32 PM
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12. Maybe he is used to people throwing stuff at him.
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-15-08 01:22 PM
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10. Desert air is dry
You don't get the sharp break on a curveshoe like you would in less-arid climes.



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MrCoffee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-15-08 01:32 PM
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11. A hanging curveshoe spells trouble with a capital T
:rofl:

curveshoe...nice.
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-15-08 01:57 PM
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15. Imagine how a knuckleshoe would act
:D



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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-15-08 01:21 PM
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8. Yes! I finally saw the video today, and I laughed my ass off!
I didn't realize he had to duck to avoid them.

That and the dead-eye glaze reading the goat book on 9-11 are the two images that define his presidency.
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Fire Walk With Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-15-08 01:34 PM
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13. What is: Beauty?
This is beauty. I celebrate beauty.
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undeterred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-15-08 02:08 PM
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16. This is Bush's "combat" experience.
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