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Who was Insulted? Bush or the Shoe?
The Iraqi journalist Montaser al-Zaidi threw his Shoes on the U.S. President George W. Bush at a press conference held in Iraq in the latest round of Bush before the transfer the power to Obama.
Who was insulted in this action?
Is it Bush as a president of the largest state in the world?
Is it Maliki as Prime Minister of Iraq and the host of the conference and people threw shoes in his presence to the face of the most important guests, President Bush?
Montaser when he couldn’t control him self and did this behavior of violence instead of expressing his opinion, especially that Bush is his guest in his own country?
Are they the Arab rulers who are not able to say NO to Bush even if he asked them to take off their clothes?
Or is it the pair of shoes that “the man was not worth the shoe”, but much less than that??
In your opinion who was insulted?
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For me, it doesn’t really matter much who was insulted. I understand though, that there are people and very obviously groups of people as well, who take seriously and personally the idea and act of being insulted. I am American and in America some of us woulc might describel the behavior exhibited by this journalist a simple exercise of free speech with shoes.
My reaction, upon seeing the video of one shoe, and then another shoe, hurling towards ‘my President’, was
Gee… hmmmm… why don’t we take up shoe hurling at politicians here in the States. It actually seems like a much more docile, yet effective way of expressing anger and contempt for politicians than for example, yelling out profanity at an elected official, or attempting an assasination which would ultimately result in life in prison or a death sentence upon conviction.
Well, that is unless the assasine does not get caught which is highly unlikely, or unless the assisine does not get shot on site, which is extremely unlikely..
The more I write, the more the shoe hurling thing really seems like custom or tradition that Americans need to consider. It seems as though taking up such a custom would afford some of our more active citizenry a reasonable and healthy outlet for their frustration.
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even a pair of shoe avoiding to touch that dirty criminal war monger
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It was a waste of a good pair of shoes.
I don’t care much for any of the people present in that little delegation especially Bush.
That person had every right to protest and throw his shoes at the person responsible for throwing bombs and destroying his country.
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even a pair of shoe avoiding to touch that dirty criminal war monger
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