foxnews.com - 12/28/2008
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First lady Laura Bush said she was offended by the recent "assault" on her husband, who had two shoes thrown at him during a recent visit to Iraq. At the same time, however, she said the assault shows that Iraqis feel a lot freer than they did before. "I know that if Saddam Hussein had been ...
attackerman.firedoglake.com - 12/26/2008
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attackerman.firedoglake.com —
The portrait of 2009’s passel of counterinsurgency efforts
in Afghanistan is becoming clearer. Bolster troop levels ....
Recruit tribal militias to battle extremists , in a second-time-as-farce version of Iraq’s Anbar Awakening. Mitigate increasing ...
(more)
She Said You Couldn’t Stay Up
longwarjournal.org - 12/28/2008
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longwarjournal.org —
Taliban suicide bombers struck on both sides of
the Durand Line, killing 51 and wounding score more...
in Pakistan and Afghanistan. The suicide attack in Pakistan took place in the settled district of Buner in the insurgency-infested Northwest ...
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Taliban suicide bomber strike in Pakistan, Afghanistan
apnews.myway.com - 12/21/2008
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Bush 'doesn't feel sorry for himself'
The Swamp —
... ''First Lady: Shoe 'Assault' Shows Freedom in Iraq,'' reads the headline at FOX News.com, at the network that delivered the interview with First Lady Laura Bush on FOX News Sunday this morning. ...
Laura Bush Was Offended By Mullah Supporting Shoe-Chucker
Gateway Pundit —
Laura Bush was upset that the Iranian regime supporter and Sadrist assaulted her husband. The First Lady said that her husband laughed off the attack but that she saw it as an assault. FOX News again today asked her about the attack on her husband: First Lady Laura Bush said she was offended by the recent "assault" on her husband, who had two shoes thrown at him during a recent visit to Iraq. At the same time, however, she said the ...
First Lady Laura Bush in a kind of Sunday talk farewell
Top of the Ticket —
... with Chris Wallace in a sort of Sunday farewell. They talked about a bunch of things, one of them the shoe-fly assault on the president during his recent trip to Iraq.
She said, sure, she was offended by the hurled shoe, not surprised that her fit husband could so easily dodge it, and pretty sure that had Saddam Hussein been the target and Iraq not a free country, the offending reporter would not still be around to plead for release.
Here's the Fox News version of its taped first lady interview. Our blogging buddy Mark Silva has returned to the ...
Lowballing Bush Memoirs
The Moderate Voice —
Laura Bush was on Fox News yesterday, probably the last in a round of appearances to drum up interest in her memoirs.
For some reason, publishers have not been bidding up any proposals for Bush nostalgia, even those of the relatively popular First Lady.
“One question that seems to be weighing on prospective editors,” the New Yorker reports, “is whether a book by Mrs. Bush will provide a candid account of her feelings, and perhaps counter the popular view of her as an opinion-free robot.”
Candid? What world are ...
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Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki tried to block one of the shoes thrown at President Bush earlier this month during Bush's visit to Baghdad.
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