Azzaman (Iraq daily newspaper): Bush is stupid, dumb and ignorant

[sabra]

http://www.azzaman.com/english/index.asp?fname=news/2008-12-15/kurd.htm

Bush is stupid, dumb and ignorant

By Fatih Abdulsalam

Azzaman, December 15, 2008



Two important events have captured my attention in President George W. Bush’s last visit to Iraq. The first is the hurling of two shoes at him – a vivid example of the hostility Iraqis feel towards him and his occupation troops. The second is the attack by unidentified assailants on one of Iraq’s top medical surgeons in the northern city of Mosul.

Both incidents tell volumes of current conditions of a country which U.S. troops and their Iraqi lackeys have turned into a wild and violent land.

Bush thought he could score a point by paying his last homage to a bunch of ‘friends’ he has put at the helm of power in Iraq and has committed his marauding troops to protect.

But those troops could not protect Dr. Muzahem Khayat, the dean of Mosul’s Medical College and one of the few brilliant minds who have opted not to leave the country despite the hardships.

Scores of Dr. Khayat’s friends have been assassinated, kidnapped and hundreds have fled the country.

And the intrepid journalist who bid farewell to Bush with his shoes – the most derogatory gesture in Arab and Muslim culture – must have first thought of all those stories of atrocities and massive human rights violations which have been taking place due to Bush’s illegal invasion of his country.

I am not saying whether journalist Muntader al-Zaidi’s action is right or wrong. But I am certain that the majority of Iraqis would not flinch from calling bush a ‘dog’ and ‘killer’ and even use harsher words than those Zaidi shouted as he threw his shoes at him.

The widows, the orphans and the hundreds of thousands of Iraqis Bush’s troops have killed in Iraq and the millions he has uprooted and forced into exile in neighboring states would surely have used harsher words and means than “this from the widows, the orphans and those who were killed in Iraq” – the words Zaidi shouted.

Bush’s ‘achievements’ in Iraq are too many to recount and they do not stop at the attempt to assassinate al-Khayat. He has ruined a nation of more than 25 million with impunity because he will soon retire to a ranch and there will be no one to hold him accountable.

Zaidi perhaps thought he could do something. No wonder to see him already turned into a hero in the eyes not only of Iraqis but Arabs and Muslims almost every where.

In the past weeks Bush has been exhibiting an apologetic face. He agrees now his intelligence about weapons of mass destruction was wrong and has apologized for several things but has done nothing to correct his mistakes.

He wants others to bear the responsibility for his blunders.

But there is no way for Iraqis to forgive him although he is still seen as ‘innocent’ under U.S. laws.

Bush wants us, the Iraqis, to believe that Iraqi troops were on their way to occupy California before he decided to send his own death squads to rape Iraqi cities one by one.

Bush wants to persuade Iraqis that the security agreement he signed in Baghdad is for peaceful purposes.

Bush wants Iraqis to believe him that the hundreds of thousands of Iraqis killed since his invasion are ‘a good price’ to pay for the ‘democracy’ he has established in Iraq.

Bush may not even understand why Zaidi hurled his shoes at him.

[last1standing]

1. And redundant as well. n/t

[BrklynLiberal]

2. Can't argue with that...

[Solly Mack]

3. K&R

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

4. Bush is clueless to the insult

but not the rest of the world. To quote the article:

No wonder to see him already turned into a hero in the eyes not only of Iraqis but Arabs and Muslims almost every where.

I would amend this sentence to include many non-Muslims, including many DUers.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

5. The Iraqis had a helluva lot more thrown at them than shoes. And, now the Afghans.

The graveyards of the world are full of bodies sacrificed to "protect" us and "spread democracy."

“What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy.” - Gandhi