this is bullshit. We should be out in the streets the next few days in support of Al Zaidi

...played on ANY MSM outlet?

You know the one where you can actually hear
the "Rethuglican Iraqis" break the protester's
bones and the anguished cries that follow.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVH6tVKKwCo

Just wonderin'

The Shoes We Longed For

The young journalist who took on Bush has become a unifying Iraqi symbol, a national hero

Muntadhar is a secular socialist whose hero happens to be Che Guevara. He became a prominent leftwing student leader immediately after the occupation, while at Baghdad University's media college. He reported for al-Baghdadia on the poor and downtrodden victims of the US war. He was first on the scene in Sadr City and wherever people suffered violence or severe deprivation. He not only followed US Apache helicopters' trails of death and destruction, but he was also among the first to report every "sectarian" atrocity and the bombing of popular market places. He let the victims talk first.

It was effective journalism, reporting that the victims of violence themselves accused the US-led occupation of being behind all the carnage. He was a voice that could not be silenced, despite being kidnapped by a gang and arrested by US and regime forces.

His passion for the war's victims and his staunchly anti-occupation message endeared him to al-Baghdadia viewers. And after sending Bush out of Iraq in ignominy he has become a formidable national hero. The orphan who was brought up by his aunt, and whose name means the longed or awaited for, has become a powerful unifying symbol of defiance, and is being adopted by countless Iraqis as "our dearest son".

Are you sure it wasn't a pre-existing injury.

Cause that dude threw like a Saudi woman. There must have been something wrong with his soldier before the press conference.

A real Iraqi would have hit.

.... Imelda Marcos when we could have used her?

The problem for the Bushies and the Iraqi government is this guy is now too famous to disappear or keep incommunicado indefinitely. If he was tortured and says so to the press, the Red Crescent or any other human rights group, a lot of people will rightly be wondering what the difference is between the new torture regime and the old one. (Not that it's a distinction that will bother most conservative.)

in the new liberated democracy of Iraq.

I've been flipping stations for hours tonight while recovering from surgery and am appalled at the same exact sentiment coming from everywhere from CNN to FOX to MSNBC to CBS, ABC and the rest.

We DID NOT liberate Iraq from anything. We bombed them back to the stone age.

Maliki was not freely chosen in a democratic process. The whole world knows this and so do many Americans who are not benighted enough to buy the bullshit.

Maliki is a puppet. We destroyed Iraq based on lies and America itself is now guilty of genocide, torture, breaking the Geneva Conventions, pre-emptive war and being the world's leading terrorists.

Some guy throwing a few shoes is the only voice for the invaded and oppressed.

It's sickening.

Yet the mass murdering unelected despot war criminal gets off scot free.

Why couldn't they have been football cleats?

written about this man...
a simple, yet forceful action that spoke for billions around the world.

He definitely spoke for millions of people who are disgusted at the way our simpering Caligula struts around the globe, leaving death and destruction in his wake. The Iraqis should make a hero of this poor man, instead they are aping Bush by torturing him. Shame!