One shoe, two shoe ... doobie doobie doo
The Iraqis allowed a "journalist" to enter into a secured briefing room for a press conference featuring the Iraqi Prime Minister and President Bush. This "stringer" for a Cairo-based Iraqi news agency -- why hasn't anyone picked up of that inconsistency -- screams something like "a goodbye kiss for you, you dog, for killing millions of Iraqis" and throws a shoe. Bush ducks. Then the Iraqi D-Lowe throws another. It misses. But don't miss the obvious here, this was an assault against the President, and NOT "freedom of speech." Nowhere and in no country is the act of throwing a projectile at someone with intent to cause harm "freedom of speech." So when the Arabs try to twist this saying that "he should be let go under the rubric of freedom of speech that the Americans are trying to impose on us," we should point out that if they want the American standards to apply here, then let's extradite him to the U.S., try him under American law and then, if guilty (it's on tape), place him in an American prison. In the general prison population. Wanna see how fast D-Lowe can run?
We have all seen the video. Has anyone noticed that the Iraqi Prime Minister did not even flinch? He just sort of stared bemusedly at the event as though at Wimbledon ... love-15 ... love-30. And then all of a sudden security people jump to it? Was this scripted? How on Earth could this scuzzy hack get off TWO shots at the President?
To Bush's credit, he ducked the first and when the second came, he just sort of stepped aside and subsequently made jokes about it. But in practical thinking, his Secret Service detail should be fired: someone should have stepped in front of shoe number two, and someone should have liquidated the thrower as he drew back to throw the second.
Consider if the shoes had had some sort of fulminate in them ... boom. They would make admirable bombs. And even if the Iraqi Prime Minister knew about the event in advance, nobody would necessarily tell him whether or not the shoes might contain explosives or some biological or chemical agent designed to "get even." Say some Polonium 210 ... just a smattering would be enough. Ricin. Or weaponized anthrax. As we all know there are more than enough willing and able suicide bombers in that country, and there is no reason to think that one might not be willing to go in a horrible way if it meant getting Bush and Maliki in "one throw." Talk about martyrdom ... getting Bush and a treasonous dog too; it just does not get better than that.
It matters not a toss what the history of this would-be Mariano Rivera is. Who cares what might have happened to him in the past, or what blackmail or pressure he might be under ... it is irrelevant to the act and the failure of the Iraqi security services to protect a foreign head of state and gross negligence by the USSS. The fact that it happened at all and that this cat got off two shots at the President is the point.
And where is the outrage? Americans, don't let your hatred of Bush get in the way of the symbolism: he IS still our President and represents our people and armed forces. The cheering by the great unwashed Islamic hordes may be understandable, but it is a colossal slap in the face to Americans. The shoe and what it represents is only second to throwing a dog's head at Bush (he probably couldn't get one into the room) in terms of insult. Really, in practical terms this is the "Finger" times ten -- as bad as you can get. And Iraqis should also feel ashamed at their inability to show security (if not respect) to a foreign head of state. It shows the Iraqis up as a bunch of Krazy Kops, incompetent and incapable.
It is the embarrassment felt by the security people that might make Mr. Al-Zaidi's stay in custody less than cordial. They have egg of their face too and Mr. Al-Zaidi may be made to pay for it. It is not as if this was a huge crowd of people in a public place -- this was meant to be secure, in the military sense of the word.
So what we are talking about is far from the benign act of civil disobedience it is being made out to be by the left and the Muslim world. NPR and Keith Olbermann are probably trying to figure out how to get and interview with Al-Zaidi.
We have all seen the video. Has anyone noticed that the Iraqi Prime Minister did not even flinch? He just sort of stared bemusedly at the event as though at Wimbledon ... love-15 ... love-30. And then all of a sudden security people jump to it? Was this scripted? How on Earth could this scuzzy hack get off TWO shots at the President?
To Bush's credit, he ducked the first and when the second came, he just sort of stepped aside and subsequently made jokes about it. But in practical thinking, his Secret Service detail should be fired: someone should have stepped in front of shoe number two, and someone should have liquidated the thrower as he drew back to throw the second.
Consider if the shoes had had some sort of fulminate in them ... boom. They would make admirable bombs. And even if the Iraqi Prime Minister knew about the event in advance, nobody would necessarily tell him whether or not the shoes might contain explosives or some biological or chemical agent designed to "get even." Say some Polonium 210 ... just a smattering would be enough. Ricin. Or weaponized anthrax. As we all know there are more than enough willing and able suicide bombers in that country, and there is no reason to think that one might not be willing to go in a horrible way if it meant getting Bush and Maliki in "one throw." Talk about martyrdom ... getting Bush and a treasonous dog too; it just does not get better than that.
It matters not a toss what the history of this would-be Mariano Rivera is. Who cares what might have happened to him in the past, or what blackmail or pressure he might be under ... it is irrelevant to the act and the failure of the Iraqi security services to protect a foreign head of state and gross negligence by the USSS. The fact that it happened at all and that this cat got off two shots at the President is the point.
And where is the outrage? Americans, don't let your hatred of Bush get in the way of the symbolism: he IS still our President and represents our people and armed forces. The cheering by the great unwashed Islamic hordes may be understandable, but it is a colossal slap in the face to Americans. The shoe and what it represents is only second to throwing a dog's head at Bush (he probably couldn't get one into the room) in terms of insult. Really, in practical terms this is the "Finger" times ten -- as bad as you can get. And Iraqis should also feel ashamed at their inability to show security (if not respect) to a foreign head of state. It shows the Iraqis up as a bunch of Krazy Kops, incompetent and incapable.
It is the embarrassment felt by the security people that might make Mr. Al-Zaidi's stay in custody less than cordial. They have egg of their face too and Mr. Al-Zaidi may be made to pay for it. It is not as if this was a huge crowd of people in a public place -- this was meant to be secure, in the military sense of the word.
So what we are talking about is far from the benign act of civil disobedience it is being made out to be by the left and the Muslim world. NPR and Keith Olbermann are probably trying to figure out how to get and interview with Al-Zaidi.
posted by Zaphod at Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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