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Bush ducks and quips in Baghdad
Power Line — Kathryn Lopez has posted the White House pool report on President Bush's appearance in Baghdad today: The president's appearance was interrupted by a man, apparently a journalist, who leapt to his feet and threw his shoe at the president, who ducked and thus narrowly missed being struck. Chaos ensued. The [man] threw a second shoe, which also narrowly missed the president. The man was roughly 12 feet from the lecturn in the center of two rows of chairs, about two feet from the pool. A scrum of security agents descended on the man and wrestled him, first ...