Iraqi Reporter Throws Shoes At Bush - The Orange Room

FBM

HHAHAHAHA guys turn on your tvs.. a journalist just hit bush with a sermey in Iraq

Jorje

It's embarrassing, really. He still represents a whole country.

FBM

The video

Iraqi reporter throws shoes at Bush, calls him dog
Sun Dec 14, 2008 1:00pm EST Email | Print | Share| Reprints | Single Page | Recommend (1) [-] Text [+] BAGHDAD (Reuters) - An Iraqi reporter called visiting U.S. President George W. Bush a "dog" in Arabic on Sunday and threw his shoes at him during a news conference in Baghdad.

Iraqi security officers and U.S. secret service agents leapt at the man and dragged him struggling and screaming out of the room where Bush was giving a news conference with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.

The shoes missed their target about 15 feet away. One sailed over Bush's head as he stood next to Maliki and smacked into the wall behind him. Bush smiled uncomfortably and Maliki looked strained.

"It doesn't bother me," Bush said, urging everyone to calm down as a ruckus broke out in the conference room.

When asked about the incident shortly after, Bush made light of it. "I didn't feel the least threatened by it," he said.

Other Iraqi journalists apologized on behalf of their colleague, a television journalist.

Bush arrived in Baghdad earlier on Sunday on a farewell visit before he leaves office in January. The U.S.-led invasion in 2003 to topple Saddam Hussein triggered years of sectarian bloodshed and insurgency in Iraq, killing tens of thousands.

(Reporting by Matt Spetalnick; Writing by Michael Christie; Editing by Elizabeth Piper)

Zero Cult

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Originally Posted by Jorje

It's embarrassing, really. He still represents a whole country.

You might have wanted to say, he's a whole country's embarrassment.

Dry Ice

A terrorist shoe right there..

Salome

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Originally Posted by Dry Ice

A terrorist shoe right there..

umm does that mean from now on we can not enter the US airports with shoes?

dodzi

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Originally Posted by FBM

The video

Iraqi reporter throws shoes at Bush, calls him dog
Sun Dec 14, 2008 1:00pm EST Email | Print | Share| Reprints | Single Page | Recommend (1) [-] Text [+] BAGHDAD (Reuters) - An Iraqi reporter called visiting U.S. President George W. Bush a "dog" in Arabic on Sunday and threw his shoes at him during a news conference in Baghdad.

Iraqi security officers and U.S. secret service agents leapt at the man and dragged him struggling and screaming out of the room where Bush was giving a news conference with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.

The shoes missed their target about 15 feet away. One sailed over Bush's head as he stood next to Maliki and smacked into the wall behind him. Bush smiled uncomfortably and Maliki looked strained.

"It doesn't bother me," Bush said, urging everyone to calm down as a ruckus broke out in the conference room.

When asked about the incident shortly after, Bush made light of it. "I didn't feel the least threatened by it," he said.

Other Iraqi journalists apologized on behalf of their colleague, a television journalist.

Bush arrived in Baghdad earlier on Sunday on a farewell visit before he leaves office in January. The U.S.-led invasion in 2003 to topple Saddam Hussein triggered years of sectarian bloodshed and insurgency in Iraq, killing tens of thousands.

(Reporting by Matt Spetalnick; Writing by Michael Christie; Editing by Elizabeth Piper)

Bunch or morons!

I never saw him apologizing for anything he did!