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(205,317 posts)Back when we could still laugh!
WheelWalker
(8,955 posts)Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)Rhiannon12866
(205,317 posts)HipChick
(25,485 posts)Simpler time indeed...
Victor_c3
(3,557 posts)llmart
(15,536 posts)I did a fist pump when I saw it and laughed out loud! Well deserved.
Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)He thought it was funny. He didn't realize that throwing shoes at people is the consummate insult in the Middle East.
Rorey
(8,445 posts)He was pretty good at dodging the shoes. Nothing else. Just that.
Polybius
(15,398 posts)Rorey
(8,445 posts)He wouldn't duck. It would be amusing.
True Dough
(17,304 posts)He's all heel!
mountain grammy
(26,620 posts)Hed be starring at it until it hit his ugly puss.
AdamGG
(1,291 posts)and the shoe would have left a big smudge in his makeup after he was too slow to dodge it
montana_hazeleyes
(3,424 posts)Shaq shoe. There was one of his real shoes on display at a sporting goods store uptown where I live and as folks can imagine it was enormous. It was hard to believe that that shoe actually fit someone.
jpak
(41,757 posts)Bucky
(54,003 posts)Wherever he is, I hope that dude is doing okay. As I recall, he got some jail time for that, yes?
Polybius
(15,398 posts)It was in Iraq, wasn't it?
Ron Obvious
(6,261 posts)Following the incident, Al-Zaidi was represented by the head of the Iraqi Bar Association at trial.[11] On 20 February 2009, al-Zaidi received a 90-minute trial by the Central Criminal Court of Iraq.[12] On 12 March 2009, he was sentenced to three years in prison for assaulting a foreign head of state during an official visit. On 7 April, the sentence was reduced from three years to one year.[13] He was released on 15 September 2009 for good behavior, after serving nine months of the sentence.[14] After his release, Al-Zaidi was treated for injuries and later said he planned to "build orphanages, a children's hospital, and medical and orthopaedic centres offering free treatment and manned by Iraqi doctors and medical staff."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muntadhar_al-Zaidi
montana_hazeleyes
(3,424 posts)because that is some of the best behavior I've seen!
phleshdef
(11,936 posts)demmiblue
(36,845 posts)Irishxs
(622 posts)fast headshift on the part of George W.
Polybius
(15,398 posts)Almost as if he was used to getting shoes thrown at him.
BigmanPigman
(51,590 posts)Our current fucking moron would have been hit by both and not realize it for 5 minutes he is so dimwitted and sluggish.
Polybius
(15,398 posts)There is no way he could move as fast as Bush did then. Bush was 62 and in great shape for his age.
2naSalit
(86,583 posts)he's done this before.
Cirque du So-What
(25,934 posts)Comes up smilin', knowing the shoe-thrower will be hung up by his thumbs shortly.
NO TO FASCISM
(40 posts)Trump has made me miss Bush
Bucky
(54,003 posts)But I lost two of my students in Iraq. That was an entirely pointless war. Hundreds of thousands of people didn't have to be displaced or killed, but Bush thought it would ensure his re-election.
I will never miss Bush. I will never find amusement in his goofy antics. I can only see the lives and families and communities he has destroyed for his own vanity. Trump may be horrible and disloyal to the United States, but his crimes simply do not measure up to Bush's.
NO TO FASCISM
(40 posts)Your students volunteered, it was their choice. The friends I lost had no choice. Your students were proud to be doing their duty. For us it was: The unqualified leading, the unwilling to do, the unnecessary, for the ungrateful.
I am sorry for your loss.
Brother Buzz
(36,423 posts)the economic draft; the existing economy of that period gave young people few options beyond military service.
NO TO FASCISM
(40 posts)for 17 years if we had the draft. The average person does not care unless a war touches them directly. At least now returning soldiers are not spat upon, they are honored as they should be.
2naSalit
(86,583 posts)ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)Which reminds me, was Individual 1 kind enough to remove Nancy's shoe from his ass, clean it, and return it to her?
Saboburns
(2,807 posts)And I really did fall on the floor, roll around laugh.
Just a perfection this. Camera angle is is great, the thrower is perfect. The ducker is perfect. The timing of the whole bit is perfect.
Thank you for this!
Raine
(30,540 posts)reflexes to dodge that!
lindysalsagal
(20,680 posts)Hope he's ok.
Rhiannon12866
(205,317 posts)He suffered serious consequences for what we all thought was kind of a joke in which no one was hurt.
pressbox69
(2,252 posts)when you consider what the Saudi pig did to the reporter.
alterfurz
(2,474 posts)...DuhBya should be picking up rubble in Iraq for the rest of his life, and forced to polish this shoe monument daily.
lame54
(35,287 posts)For missing