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None Of Those Things Are Actually True
Eschaton —
80 years or so from now when they finally get around to teaching this time period in high school, I really do wonder how they'll try to answer that simple unanswerable question... why did we invade Iraq? ...
No More Mister Nice Blog — YEAH, THAT MIGHT MAKE YOU A BIT CRANKY About the shoe-throwing reporter: "This is a farewell kiss!" the man, identified as Muntadar al-Zaidi, a reporter with the Cairo-based network Al Baghdadia Television, yelled as he threw the shoes. Bush had to duck out of the way, and narrowly missed being hit.... Zaidi, colleagues said, was kidnapped by Shiite militiamen last year and was later released. And that's true -- here's the Reuters story from last year: An Iraqi TV journalist who was kidnapped last week in a busy Baghdad ...
Video: Reporter Muntadar al-Zaidi Throws Shoes at President Bush During Press Conference
(Obsolete Feed) —
... I thought Iraqis were a bit more retrained than this. This is the sort of behavior you’d expect from Keith Olbermann. Bush was, as usual, cool under fire: ...
Early Morning Swim: Special Bush Getting Shoes Thrown At Him By Angry Iraqi Edition
Firedoglake —
... Bush greeted as liberator in Iraq.
WaPost coverage of the shoe-throwing.
And the Beeb puts it in cultural context.
Plus, a beyond-stupid wingnut response.
Which in turn deserves a response of its own.
Gordon Brown to Obama: no surge.
White House to loan Detroit even more than $14B?
Is Google turning evil?
2008 election -- highest turnout since 1968.
Now he tells us: McCain unsure about Palin.
War Defended
Jules Crittenden —
... Washington Post , reporting on the shoe thing, informs that Bush “staunchly defended a war that has taken far more time, money and lives than anticipated.” On the first two, true. On lives, there was an expectation in the invasion that thousands could be killed by stiff resistance and chemical weapons. That’s why they made everyone wear the protective gear. There was stiff resistance in places, but Iraqi tactics and weapons were poor, and while some Iraqi soldiers and fedayeen fought bravely, holding their ground, launching counterattacks and staging ambushes … as well as in ...
The legacy tour continues
The Reaction —
By Creature As if hearing from George, Dick, Condi, and Laura weren't enough, here's Alberto Gonzales playing the victim as he tries to shit-shine his forever tarnished image: "What is it that I did that is so fundamentally wrong, that deserves this kind of response to my service? ... "[F]or some reason, I am portrayed as the one who is evil in formulating policies that people disagree with. I consider myself a casualty, one of the many casualties of the war on terror." Alberto, leaving aside your disrespect for the actual casualties of the ...
