Saudi Arabia’s pre-POTUS preparations

June 1, 2009

WARNING: ADULT CONTENT

So barry is heading to the Muslim world again. Hasn’t been to two continents – South American or Australia. Hasn’t been to Eastern Europe (except Russia on a Codel) or Japan or India or China or Central America or Ireland or Vatican City but he added on a stop to visit his old pal King Saudi so he can bend completely over in the privacy of a tent or a cave or a palace or wherever the women and “child brides” are slaves. He has yet to speak out on anything except the marital rape law in Afghanistan – and then only because he was pressured. He has not said anything while in the companies of Arabs. He has the courage and conviction of a gnat.

And how is the center of the Muslim World, the “moderate” and “progressive” land of Saudi Arabia preparing for his visit?

Public execution. In this particular case, the beheading was accompanied by a “crucifixion” – which his nothing to do with Christianity. It means the body is displayed in public as a “deterrent”.

GROSS WARNING: They are beheaded first and their head is sewn back on and the reassembled corpse is mounted on a pole or a tree and left for all to see. His was displayed “throughout the evening”.

2009 and there are still savages beheading folks – as in women, too – in public. [I don't know about Saudi Arabia but Iran executes folks who (allegedly) commit crimes as a minor.] They have a special square just for this purpose. It’s called “Chop Chop” Square (Deera Square) for obvious reasons. In the center is a drain so they can flush the blood and whatever else away when they’re finished. Cleanliness being next to Godliness. They used to be held on Fridays after noon prayers – now they take place unannounced but always at 9:00 am.

And the executioner?

The job is a coveted one, often passed from father to son.

What qualifies for the death penalty?

…many crimes, such as armed robbery, rape, adultery, drug use and trafficking, and renouncing Islam. There’s a woman on death row now for witchcraft, and the charge is based partly on a man’s accusation that her spell made him impotent.

In this case, the crime was “an offense of rebellion, one that basically rejected all of the rules of religion and society” and he was caught in the act. And what he did was truly evil and would probably qualify for the death penalty in some states.

And according to the article:

There is also no written penal code, so questions of illegality depend on the on-the-spot interpretations of police and judges.

Amnesty International’s Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui:

[The trial proceedings] usually take place behind closed doors without adequate legal representation. Convictions are often made on the basis of “confessions” obtained under duress, including torture or other ill-treatment during incommunicado detention.

But it appears (alot of) money talks.

At any time until the sword strikes, a victim’s family can pardon the condemned — usually for a cash settlement of at least two million riyals ($690,000 or so) from the convict or his family.

Usually though:

AI’s Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui: Those who are sentenced to death are often not informed of the progress of legal proceedings against them or of the date of execution until the morning when they are taken out and beheaded.

How common?

There were 102 executions in Saudi Arabia in 2008 and is aware of 136 people believed to be awaiting execution….”but nobody knows how many people are on death row.”

Sahraoui: King Abdullah should show true leadership and commute all death sentences if Saudi Arabia is to have any role to play as a global leader or member of the G-20.

Do you think that is on barry’s agenda?

Sources: BOLD links are to an article with a description of the beheading — towards the bottom. Amnesty International links are from a CNN article.

Katie Couric recently returned from Saudi Arabia. She gives a glimpse of the Square.

NOTHING GROSS

May 13, 2009

Go ahead, it’s Saudi Arabia, slap them b*tches up side the head

May 11, 2009

It seems they keep track of domestic violence in Saudi Arabia because it’s on the rise. The reporting of it that is. Just think for a minute. There are no female police in Saudi Arabia, so when women/girls try to report a sexual assault they have to tell a man, who already thinks they are property of their male relatives/husband. If they ever progress from caves in the desert and palaces with consorts into the 21st century and allow women to be police officers and judges, the incidence of all crimes against women would increase exponentially, because for once they would be worth reporting.

It was shocking just to read that women were allowed not only to attend a domestic violence seminar but that they were allowed to vocally protest – albeit from behind their mandated shrouds, which were the subject of the protest.

The caveman of a judge said if the husband beast decides that the little missus spent too much money buying a garment she must wear – he can slap her across the face. Yep. I didn’t see what page he quoted from the Koran where it is so written.

I wonder if they realize how ridiculous they look when these stories break in the US?

And Saudi Arabia is supposed to be a “moderate Arab state” and “progressive” even as the Supreme Imam decrees that it’s ok to sell off girls as young as 10 and that there’s no problem mutilating their genitals either. Savages. All of them are savages. Morons don’t realize that if they allowed their women to actually do something they wouldn’t have to receive a stipend to go shopping with. And if they could actually drive a vehicle they could do some comparison shopping.

From CNN’s MOHAMMED JAMJOOM [emphasis added]:

Arab News, a Saudi English-language daily newspaper based in Riyadh, reported that Judge Hamad Al-Razine said that “if a person gives SR 1,200 [$320] to his wife and she spends 900 riyals [$240] to purchase an abaya [the black cover that women in Saudi Arabia must wear] from a brand shop and if her husband slaps her on the face as a reaction to her action, she deserves that punishment.”

Women in the audience immediately and loudly protested Al-Razine’s statement, and were shocked to learn the remarks came from a judge, the newspaper reported.

Arab News reported that Al-Razine made his remark as he was attempting to explain why incidents of domestic violence had increased in Saudi Arabia. He said that women and men shared responsibility, but added that “nobody puts even a fraction of blame” on women, the newspaper said.

Al-Razine “also pointed out that women’s indecent behavior and use of offensive words against their husbands were some of the reasons for domestic violence in the country,” it added.

Women can’t be blamed when they can’t do anything and are ordered around by the beasts they were sold to. And what is considered “indecent behavior”? Showing their ankles? Protesting marital rape? Fighting for a divorce for their 8 y/o daughter? Resisting the mutilation of their daughters’ genitals?

Do these beasts have any idea what this says about their lack of manhood? That they have to slap instead of reason? That they have to smack the mother of their children in order to prove their dominance?

More from Jamjoom:

Domestic violence, which used to be a taboo subject in the conservative kingdom, has become a hot topic in recent years. Groups like the National Family Safety Program have campaigned to educate the public about the problem and help prevent domestic abuse.

Saudi women’s rights activist Wajeha Al-Huwaider told CNN that Saudi women routinely face such attitudes.

“This is how men in Saudi Arabia see women,” she said in a telephone interview from the Saudi city of Dahran. “It’s not something they read in a book or learned from a friend. They’ve been raised to see women this way, that they’re less than a person.”

Al-Huwaider added that “I’m not surprised to see a judge or a religious man saying that – they’ve been raised in the same culture – a culture that tells them it’s ok to raise your hand to a woman that this works.”

These women are heroes and should be applauded as such. Wonder what type of violence they have been subjected to – before and because of their work.

POTUS: "We are not at war with Islam"

April 6, 2009

barry may not be, but I am.

And any self-respecting woman, who enjoys freedom and believes women's rights are human rights should be.

Woman in the Muslim world right now are being beaten, stoned, raped, killed, forced to marry, sold into slavery, disfigured for wanting a divorce or striving to be educated and their daughters' genitals are being sliced and hacked at because of the "holy men's" interpretation of Islam.

Women and children abused in every fashion imaginable without threat of prosecution.

Fathers, brothers and husbands allowed free reign over women and children - theirs or not.

Precious little girls sold to men 2-8 times their age to settle their cowardly fathers' debts.

Holy men sanctioning every evil bit of it, nullifying the legitimacy of Islam as a religion.

No religion sanctions the enslaving and ritual abuse of women and children.

Men do.

Do they not realize what it is saying about them? About their (lack of) morals and values? About their country and religion?

Do they not realize how it reflects on their ancestors when they are willing to sell, mutilate, disfigure and murder their own DNA?

And just how impotent are Muslim men that they need to own a woman in order to keep her? That they need to rape and destroy a young girl before her sexual organs have even matured?

Have they no idea what this says about their manhood - literally and figuratively?

In what type of savage civilization does a 10 y/o have to run away to ask for a divorce only to find out that she can only do so when she becomes an "adult" at 15 - long after she has been ruined by the pedophile she was given to like a common farm animal.

How blind do these savage nations think the world is?

We see what they are doing. We hear their cowardly justifications that it is "custom" and "religion". We watch as woman after woman and child after child are mutilated for the sake of "honor".

And they expect us to "honor" their "religion"? Their "holy men"?

How are we to respect the rest of the Arab world - including Turkey - who sit by and do nothing?

No, the President was not speaking for this American citizen. I am very much at war with Islam and will be until one Muslim country says to the world that the savagery sanctioned by Islam: female genital mutilation, child marriages, and honor killings is inhuman and needs to be stopped and needs to be punished.

It is the Koran that the human detonators quote before they blow their cowardly useless selves up. Allah is great! It's time to find my 7 virgins in Allah heaven! And that's because it is the only place they can find virgins - the rest of the young girls have had their virginity sold and torn apart by shriveled pedophiles.

Do the suicide bombers really believe what they are doing is going to make them a martyr? The only people who remember them are the families of the innocent victims - not their own people. Why would they? They were just another pawn, just another exploded mist of DNA used by cowards to further their own agenda.

And where is the oh so courageous leader of the human detonators and hate-filled indiscriminate killing machines?

Hiding in a cave like the savage caveman he is.

And the rest?

Hiding behind scarves - obscuring their identities - so proud of what they've allowed themselves to become.

If their mission is from Allah, then why don't they have the courage to show their faces?

Because inside they feel shame. They know what they are doing goes against the laws of Nature and that no good life can come from perpetrating evil.

It is a blessing once their hate-filled flesh explodes. They can no longer beat and abuse their mothers, sisters, wives, nieces, daughters or throw acid into the faces of innocent girls on their way to school.They can no longer recruit and brainwash more ignorant savages. They can no longer propagate evil.

It is a blessing their sperm is vaporized along with their empty soul. They can never create more hate-filled boys and precious little girls to be sold into "marriage".

Child marriages are nothing other than unholy unions consecrated by sanctioned rape. And night after night after night after night, defenseless little girls weighing less than 100lbs are allowed to be raped - their yet unripened and already mutilated genitals invaded over and over and over and over by impotent shameful pigs.

Yes. I am very much at war with Islam - just as I am against polygamy and "religious" cults in the US, who think it's ok for children to be raped by adults - including their parents - in the name of free love and "God's will".

But they live in a country where they can potentially escape. Where someone can hear their pleas for help and provide them shelter and care. Where someone finds what is happening to them reprehensible. Where their rapists and savagers can be held accountable in a court of law.

Not so for Muslim women.

And that is wrong.

There will be no justice in the Arab world until women are the judges. And I will be long dead before that happens.

Yes. I am at war with Islam - my weapons, my words. And it is because I don't live in a Muslim country that I can wield them for those who cannot.

Those of you who have been leaving comments in Arabic, why don't you use the Google translation page so we can all see what you are saying? As is you just get deleted and we learn nothing.

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Hillary Rodham Clinton: "Womens's Rights are Human Rights"
Ranked #35 out of the top 100 speeches of the 21st Century

Female genital mutilation
While the Arab World Sits Silent
Child marriages go unabated in Arab World
Arab Carter on Human Rights - does not allow the marriage of 8 y/o girls and yet not a single Arab country demands it stop. They all signed it - therefore they are all violating it by not enforcing it.

POTUS: “Iran is a great civilization”

April 6, 2009

There is no need to comment on that disgusting statement. Nothing about Iran or the Iranian Hitler is great or even good. POTUS talks about nuclear arms ot Turkish Parliament. He can go there when Parliament is sitting but not to Canada because he knew he would have to answer questions and be held accountable for a policy he hasn’t committed to.

C-Span via TheDailyBeastVideo (an apt name for t0day’s video)

6 Iraqi gay men "disowned" then murdered

April 6, 2009

There is nothing it seems that is going to liberate the arab world from their ancient cavemen beliefs. The "disowning" by their families led to the deaths of six gay men in Iraq. After they were disowned there was a "tribal meeting" of cavemen and the men were shot dead. And what kind of justice will there be? A gay cafe was torched as well.

What do they do with lesbians? Oh, that's right. Men can already do whatever they want to women - gay, straight, young, old - in the name of religion or custom.

Source: CNN's MOHAMMED TAWFEEQ

Malaysia: no tomboys allowed

gitmo - whose rights are barry putting first?

February 2, 2009

barry's continually changing, still concerned about the polls, idealistic words on closing Guantanamo Bay as said in an interview with NBC.

Source: Reuters

BARRY: Can we guarantee that they're not going to try to participate in another attack?

No.

But what I can guarantee is that if we don't uphold our Constitution and our values, that over time that will make us less safe. And that will be a recruitment tool for organizations like al-Qaeda.

Define "over time" and then define how many Americans one freed savage can kill and how many more fellow savages they can infect, who will then go on to kill....and kill...and kill...

If they don't get out - they can't kill.

If they don't get out - they can't recruit.

If they weren't savages going in - they most likely are now.

And if there are some who still are not - they will become so or face beheading by their compatriots.

Is it going to be easy? No, because we've got a couple hundred of hard-core militants that, unfortunately, because of ... some problems that we had previously in gathering evidence, we may not be able to try in ordinary courts but we don't want to release.

You want to afford savages rights and due process? Was Senator John McCain afforded the same rights you plan on affording these savages?

You want to bring them to American soil? Then spend some of that bailout money on Alcatraz and bypass soil altogether. That would actually create some of those job you keep speeching about.

I have to make the very best judgments I can make in terms of what's going to keep the American people safe and ... what's going to uphold our Constitution and our traditions of due process.

What type of judgment have you shown in picking cabinet members? "I screwed up" takes on a different meaning when talking about terrorists and innocent law abiding, tax-paying American citizens - the kind you seem, in your infinite wisdom, to be having difficulty finding.

And what I'm convinced of is -- we can balance those interests in a way that makes all of us proud but also assures that we're not attacked.

Bringing savages to the mainland would allow their fellow savages tangible access to them and would put every single man woman and child in the vicinity of that prison at risk -- including natural born citizens whose sympathies might lie elsewhere or who might just be desperate enough for drugs, food, shelter, or medicine for their children that they would do something they would not have otherwise done if the situation hadn't presented itself.

You, Mr President, would be willingly importing terrorism into the United States of America.

Stacy Peterson

January 19, 2009

Really sweet post (6-22-08) on Stacy Peterson from the standpoint of her as a missing mother. Worth a read after hearing the lecher and alleged murderer drew peterson talk about the "harmonious bliss in the Peterson home". He is a textbook narcisisstic sociopath who preys on young impressionable, vulnerable women. He needs to be stopped before he does something else to Raines or the children.

Gitmo: what's barry saying lately?

January 17, 2009

What are the chances barry closes down Guantanamo Bay on day 1 like promised? What good is an executive order that never gets executed? Anyone think it will happen in his first term? And they sure better not be brought to the US and given rights afforded the people they have vowed (and have gone back) to kill. How many daily briefings is he going to need to figure it out?

(ADAM LEVINE/CNN)

(11-12-08) Washington Post

OBAMA ADVISOR: There is always a risk of acquittal, and there is a risk some people who are released will return to the battlefield. There is no risk-free option.

(1-11-09) This Week. Stephanopoulos asks if barry will close it in the first 100 days?

OBAMA: That's a challenge. I think it's going to take some time and our legal teams are working in consultation with our national security apparatus as we speak to help design exactly what we need to do. But I don't want to be ambiguous about this. (??) We are going to close Guantanamo and we are going to make sure that the procedures we set up are ones that abide by our constitution.

(1-14-09) DENVER POST

61 of the 520 released detainees have returned to killing Americans. In March, 37. That's an increase from 7% - 11%.

How many innocent Americans can one suicide or car bomber kill? And all 61?

What about the ones who haven't died or been caught? The ones they have lost track of? It has to be much higher number than that. And then add in all the ones they will infect.

They should implant little GPS chips into them. Maybe an anti-detonation device. And then castrate them. Go ahead and sue me. There are a bunch of Yemeni savages who will go home and "marry" their 10 y/o cousins to create more hate and oppression.

Why such care and concern for human rights in a camp detaining criminals sworn to kill when there is none for the little girls whose souls they are killing every night?

How is waterboarding a vowing to continue to kill terrorist compare to the repeated raping of a 10 y/o child by a man 2-6 times her age?

Those cavemen choose their punishment - the little girls do not.

(1-15-09) CNN

Holder's confirmation hearing. A third group of inmates, Holder indicated, can't be tried "for a variety of reasons" but also can't be released because they are too dangerous. For that reason, the Obama administration won't be able to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility "as soon as we'd like."

(1-16-09) NewsOK

There's campaigning and there's governing. There's rhetoric and there's policy...Until Obama figures it all out, the grand pronouncements on Gitmo are just more political grandstanding.

(1-16-09) Washington Post: EU not yet asked to take Gitmo detainees

(11-20-08) English al-Jazeera spin on it

(11-7-08) Four reasons Obama won't close Gitmo soon.

(1-16-09) Excellent recap with barry's own words

While the Arab world sits...silent

January 4, 2009

[Personal view not associated with this site.]

CNN: UN Security Council - no agreement

Libyan Ambassador Giadalla Ettalhi:

Unfortunately, the delegation of the United States has a clear position that is against any product or outcome from this meeting.

And the daughter of Moammar Gadhafi awarding the shoe thrower a medal of courage?

Who can take you seriously?

Blaming the US isn't going to work this time.

The US has her own troubles and is tired of your senseless violence.

It is time the Arab world to police its own savages.

If Hamas wasn't allowed to exist then Palestinians would not be being attacked.

Why the sudden urgency now that Israel - a recognized nation - not a terrorist regime - is defending her citizens?

Is the entire Arab World afraid of Iran?

Where were the meetings of the Arab League when Hamas disregarded the cease fire and began their unprovoked bombing of Israeli civilians?

Where was the concern for the innocent Palestinians then?

The entire world now knows you are not interested in the plight of the suffering Palestinians.

Where is the call to Hamas to stop hiding like emasculated filthy vermin in the midst of innocent women and children?

Why do they stockpile food and medical supplies so the citizens have none?

Why have you been allowing it?

Why do we only see women and children on Arab TV when they can be used as propaganda to promote hate and more violence?

Why do we see groups of able-bodied men standing by and doing nothing to help the victims?

Why do non-Arab nations have to try to resolve something Arab nations have allowed to continue and even encouraged?

By doing nothing and allowing the violence to continue, the entire Arab world is guilty.

You cannot hide it anymore.

Anti-Semitic propaganda can't hide it anymore.

Hate for Western infidels cannot hide it anymore.

It is loud and clear.

As is the European Union's complacency and lack of involvement.

Only now are they stepping in when it is clear the US refuses to give in to terror.

How much money has France given toward humanitarian rescue of the innocent Palestinians?

How many Arab and European countries have opened their borders to the suffering Palestinians?

Egypt - is it easier to get arms in or allow refugees out?

Who in the Arab world has true courage?

Courage that does not involve human detonation?

Why type of mother allows her child to be used as an explosive device?

What type of mother willingly lies down with a man who seeks only to breed more hate?

What type of mother brings life into existence only to see her own flesh and blood willingly destroy another mother's flesh and blood?

How is that an honorable death? An honorable life?

How is that anything other than delusional madness?

Is there nothing sacred in the Arab world?

For if every human life is not sacred - even your enemy's - then none are.

Not even your own.

Arab women stand up for yourselves and stop the violence.

Now.

You hold the power of peace within your hands and your wombs.

The West sees your plight but you have to want to change.

You must stand up for yourselves and the human lives you willingly create.

Stop mutilating your daughters' genitals.

Have the courage to stand up and say no more.

It is not a custom unless you choose to perpetuate it.

It is an unnecessary act of savagery.

It is a crime against all women.

And it is an act against God who created your child as she should be.

Which Arab country is going to lead the way?

You have been exposed - every single one of you.

The whole world is watching you stand by and do nothing but scream more hate and promise years of retribution.

What is a moderate Arab nation when you do nothing to intervene before the violence escalates?

You are cowards.

You do not seek peace.

You thrive on violence, using Islam as a shield.

No true religion uses a Holy Book and Holy teachings to promote death and destruction.

None of you truly care about the Palestinian people other than as pawns to incite and justify violence.

How else to interpret your inaction?

How long before you give fleeing Hamas members refuge, money, weaponry and a ride to Iraq or Afghanistan or New York to displace their hate on Americans?

It will no longer work.

Your apathy and tacit approval has been exposed.

Your desire to incite hate and your now patently obvious reluctance to broker peace has been exposed.

Who among you would not be doing what Hamas is doing if you could get away with it?

How many of you are funding Hamas? Feeding them? Outfitting them with arms and intelligence?

Fighting alongside them? Allowing them to train in your lands?

Hamas is surrounded on all sides. They are not capable of violence without external assistance.

The Arab world is and has been helping them.

That cannot be masked with 24 hour news coverage of bloody victims.

What civilized nation shows such images simply to promote hate?

To ensure innocent children grow up hating like their parents just to keep the conflict breeding?

How many of your camera crews help the injured women and children they so callously film?

Have you no souls?

How much dignity does a woman or young girl have in the Arab world if her hair covering and clothing are ripped open while she lies suffering just to film her injury?

How is the world to respect you when you don't respect the dignity of your own women and children even in their naked moments of suffering?

Is there nothing sacred in the Arab world?

Where was your concern for the innocent Palestinians when weapons, men and money were smuggled in to Hamas?

How can you look at the world with an honest face and expect us to believe you knew nothing and contributed nothing to aid in their fight?

You are guilty.

All of you.

It can no longer be hidden.

Your laying blame on non-Arab countries will no longer work.

You have been exposed as nations who do not seek peace.

Therefore, you are nations who sanction war.

Nothing will change that.

Not even God or Allah as a justification for a "Holy War".

Have you no shame at your impotence?

Root out the pestilence within your own garden before you complain about your neighbor's infestation.

You have allowed Hamas to remain in power.

They are there because they serve your purpose: the complete destruction of Israel.

Just like Hezbollah, al Qaeda and other radical Islamic extremists who thrive unsanctioned within your borders.

It is your fault and your fault alone this is happening.

You allow terrorism to incubate and thrive, you suffer the consequences.

But it is the Palestinians suffering because of your laziness and cowardice.

You allow Iran to dictate the violence in your own backyards.

You are just as impotent as the Palestinians.

The West's sympathy is for the innocent victims - not the Arab World who sits by silent.

For that there is no disdain greater, no more wicked a sin.

The West now knows exactly who you are and what you are truly interested in.

You are not interested in the suffering of the Palestinians.

You are not interested in promoting peace.

You are not interested in affording your women and children basic human rights.

You are interested in the annihilation of Israel and her women and children.

You are interested in the destruction of democracy and equality under the law.

You are interested in promoting terrorism and indiscriminate death and destruction.

And for that you will aways be viewed as hate-filled nations and Islam - the allegedly justification you hide behind - will always be viewed as a religion of hate.

Do you want to change this perception?

Do something.

Do something that involves goodness - not hate.

Until then you will be viewed as despicable nations who do not value the sanctity of human life.

child marriages continue unabated in the Arab world

childhood marriages continue unabated in the Arab world

Iraqi reporter throws shoes at President Bush

December 14, 2008

According to CNN:

Pres Bush was on an unannounced visit to the Green Zone to celebrate the conclusion of the security pact, called the Strategic Framework Agreement and the Status of Forces Agreement.

The pact will replace a U.N. mandate for the U.S. presence in Iraq that expires at the end of this year. The agreement, reached after months of negotiations, sets June 30, 2009, as the deadline for U.S. combat troops to withdraw from all Iraqi cities and towns. The date for all U.S. troops to leave Iraq is December 31, 2011.

The Iraqi man, identified as Muntadar al-Zeidi, a correspondent for Al-Baghdadia television, an Iraqi- owned station based in Cairo, Egypt got up and whipped one shoe and then the other, screaming:

This is a gift from the Iraqis, this is a farewell kiss, you dog! This is from the widows, the orphans and those who were killed in Iraq.

It was not a lob toss or simply a statement - it was meant to injure. Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, who knew what the man meant with the shoes, wasn't exactly helpful. Throwing shoes (or even pointing the soles) at someone is a Muslim insult. Honestly. What isn't? Those ever-present men in the streets must be cheering. And the Arab women who gave birth to and/or are pregnant by them?

video courtesy of b6ran2222

Have to say Bush handled it very well. He didn't hide behind the podium after the first shoe. I can't see barry handling something like that. The hope is, of course, that he won't have to. And I don't foresee him making many trips to any combat zones - surprise or otherwise. Something similar to his world tour, yes.

Bush talking over the car horn moans of the shoe thrower in the next room.

BUSH: Everybody calm down. First of all [muffled - uuaw], thank you [WAH!] for apologizing on behalf [WAH!] of the Iraqi people. [WAH!] It doesn't bother me. [WAH!] And [WAH!] if you want some [WAH!] - if you want the facts: [silence] it was a size 10 show he threw at me.

The reporters then asked him about the incident.

BUSH: So what if the guy threw his shoe at me? Let me talk about the guy throwing his shoe. It's one way to gain attention. It's like going to a political rally and having people yell at you. It's like driving down the street and having people not gesturing with all five fingers.

I don't know what the guy's cause is. But one thing is for certain. He caused you to ask me a question about it. I didn't feel the least bit threatened by it.

Where was the Secret Service? Nobody even got to him before the second one had landed. The irony of it all. Security pact celebration with a real, potentially lethal attack on the POTUS.

And what's the next big video on CNN? barry buying a Christmas tree. Says it all.

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