Just THINKING of "If the SHOE FITS.... " makes me smile -- and likely will forever.
Of course, the BRAVE and HEROIC Mr. al-Zaidi is paying the price: He's getting his ass kicked!
Related: US Troops Open Fire On Fallujah Students at Shoe Rally
"Parliament in turmoil over jailing of shoe-tosser" by Robert H. Reid, Associated Press | December 18, 2008
BAGHDAD - Chaos erupted in Iraq's parliament yesterday over the jailing of a reporter who threw his shoes at President Bush, with lawmakers loyal to a radical anti-American cleric demanding his freedom. The parliament speaker responded by threatening to resign.
Muntader al-Zaidi, a correspondent for an Iraqi-owned television station based in Cairo, had been expected to appear yesterday before an investigative judge at Iraq's main court as a first step in a complex legal process that could end in a criminal trial.
Instead, the judge visited him in his jail cell and the family was told to return to the court in eight days, according to the journalist's brother, Dhargham al-Zaidi. "That means my brother was severely beaten and they fear that his appearance could trigger anger at the court," he said....
And the judge pretty much confirmed it by GOING THERE! That's FREEDOM, 'eh, Georgie? How about PARDONING THIS FELLA and PROVING ME WRONG about your murderous ass?!
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Zaidi's act of defiance won the obscure television reporter hero status in Iraq and throughout the Muslim world, much of which holds Bush personally responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of Iraqis since the invasion.
And I hate to tell you, Zio-press, but FAR BEYOND the Middle East and the Muslim world! He's a HERO HERE, too!!! And TAHT MEANS HE must PAY the PRICE via TORTURE, right, 'liberator?"
Oh, yeah, the death toll:
The number of Iraqis killed by the surge has been around 300 per day, 10,000 per month -- with 1.2 million Iraqis dead since the invasion (must be nearly two million by now).
Also see: Story Iraq: MSM Lied About Death Tolls
Memory Hole: 600,000 DEAD!
Occupation Iraq: One Million Dead Iraqis
You clear now about those "unappreciative Iraqis," readers?
Damn, MSM low-balled it again!
In Pakistan, demonstrators held a candlelight vigil outside the US Consulate in Lahore yesterday, carrying photographs of Zaidi and hand-painted signs saying things like "Hush, Hush Bush. We Hate You."
See why I love them? They are beautiful!
In Iraq, followers of anti-American Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr as well as other Shi'ite and Sunni groups have staged demonstrations for the last three days demanding Zaidi's release.
The Sadrists particularly hope to exploit public sympathy for the reporter to regain political momentum they lost after their failure to stop the US-Iraq security agreement, which parliament approved last month.
Yeah, good thing AmeriKa and her weasels, I mean politicians, never exploit false-flag terror events to wage wars based on lies for a stinky little state in the Middle East. (Sigh)
The deal allows US troops to remain in Iraq until 2012....
WTF? I thought the deadline was 2011?!
Hey, what's ONE MORE MSM LIE, anyway!!!!
And what's one more FORGED LETTER!
"Iraqi who threw shoes asks for pardon; In letter, he is said to write of his 'ugly act'" by Qassim Abdul-Zahra, Associated Press | December 19, 2008
BAGHDAD - The Iraqi journalist who hurled his shoes at President Bush is begging for a pardon for what he described as "an ugly act," the prime minister's spokesman said yesterday.
Muntader al-Zaidi, a correspondent for an Iraqi-owned television station based in Cairo, could face two years imprisonment for insulting a foreign leader. He remained in custody last night.
"It is too late to reverse the big and ugly act that I perpetrated," Zaidi wrote in a letter delivered to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, according to the prime minister's spokesman.
The spokesman, Yassin Majid, told The Associated Press that Zaidi went on in the letter to recall an interview he conducted with the prime minister in 2005 when Maliki invited him into his home, saying: "Come in, it is your home too."
"So I ask for your pardon, excellency," Majid quoted the letter as saying.
However, the journalist's brother, Dhargham al-Zaidi, told the AP he was skeptical that his brother would write such a letter. "I am suspicious that my brother wrote that letter to al-Maliki because I know my brother very well," he said. He added that family members and staffers from Al-Baghdadia would stage a sit-in today near the US-controlled Green Zone.
White House press secretary Dana Perino suffered a bruised eye in the melee that followed the attack. "What happened to me was just an accident in the melee. It's not - I'm not bothered by it. It's not all that pretty," she said referring to her bruise, "but I'm not worried about it."
Neither am I, seeing as the REPORTER was BEATEN!! Besides, it wasn't her nose and that's what she uses to snort the coke.
"Court drops coup charges against Iraqis; Evidence found to be lacking, official declares" by Ned Parker, Los Angeles Times | December 20, 2008
BAGHDAD - .... Also yesterday, a judge in Baghdad announced an investigation into the beating and bruising of an Iraqi journalist's face moments after he hurled his shoes at President Bush, and said investigators destroyed the shoes in their search for explosives.
The statement by Judge Dhia al-Kinani was the first official word that Muntadhar al-Zeidi was hurt after his outburst at a news conference by Bush and Maliki. The judge said Zeidi had a bruised face and eyes....
Translation: he's been TORTURED!
Oh, I'm sorry, just beaten, right?
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"Brother says shoe thrower is defiant
BAGHDAD - Iraqi journalist Muntader al-Zaidi told his family he would never apologize to President Bush for hurling his shoes at the American leader, his brother said yesterday after visiting the detained correspondent for the first time.
Zaidi's actions on Dec. 14 have been widely praised in the Middle East and elsewhere by religious leaders, ordinary people, and governments hostile to the United States. Zaidi, 29, a television journalist, was detained by Iraqi authorities and has been kept out of the public eye since the incident....
Did they leave anyone out?
Uday Zaidi told the Los Angeles Times after his visit with his brother [that] his brother had lost a tooth and his nose had required stitches because of the beatings he had suffered in custody. "There were multiple bruises all over his body," Zaidi said. "They have assigned two medical doctors . . . to provide him with treatment in order to hide the evidence of torture."
His statements could not be independently confirmed.Why not?
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Oh, WHO was in that photograph?
Demonstrators in Lahore, Pakistan, showed their support yesterday for Muntader al-Zaidi and demanded his release. (K.M. Chaudary/Associated Press)
Oh, yeah, we always post UNDERREPORTED and DERIDED PROTEST HERE -- as a FAIR and BALANCED ALTERNATIVE to the MSM FILTH and INNUENDO in their BIASED, AGENDA-PUSHING GARBAGE GUSH!!!!!
