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varun Newbie

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Dupe. Another thread exists in Jokes.
Oops.. this isn't a joke though. It really happenned.
wow is this real when did this happen ..........
Happenned today during Bush's "farewell" visit lol.
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Oops.. this isn't a joke though. It really happenned. Happenned today during Bush's "farewell" visit lol.
No no. I know it really happened. Check the Jokes section - same video in WTF Video of the day.
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The journalist was shoeing away Dubyaaa. I saw this on India tv as " Journalist ne dubyaa ko kiyaa be-ijjaat " :hysterical: I couldn't imagine dubya saying "bhagwaan ke liye mujhe chhoD do " :hysterical:

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WASHINGTON — Although the Secret Service put everyone who attended President George W. Bush's Baghdad news conference through several layers of security Sunday, the agency appeared to be caught off guard when an Iraqi journalist hurled his shoes at the president. ``We'll be our own harshest critic regarding this incident,'' Secret Service spokesman Ed Donovan said Monday, ``and we'll make any appropriate changes to security.'' Donovan said, however, that agents on the scene knew that everyone in attendance had been screened for weapons and that they appeared to have taken the ``appropriate level of action.'' No shots were fired as Bush's Secret Service detail joined Iraqi police in taking the shoe thrower into custody. The arrested man, Muntathar al Zaidi, a 29-year-old employee of Cairo, Egypt -based Baghdadiya Television, remained in Iraqi custody Monday. Officials in Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki's office refused to comment on his condition or on whether he'd be criminally charged. Throngs of Iraqi Shiite Muslims marched Monday in Sadr City, a sprawling Baghdad slum, hailing Zaidi as a hero and holding up shoes as they demanded his release. The National Media Center, an arm of the Iraqi government that deals with the news media, condemned Zaidi's behavior as barbaric and harmful to ``Iraqi journalists and journalism in general,'' demanding an apology from his employer. Baghdadiya hasn't apologized, and it pressed for Zaidi's release. The Iraqi Union of Journalists took a middle road, saying it was ``astonished by this behavior'' but urging Zaidi's release ``for humanitarian reasons." Video of the event at the prime minister's palace shows a tightly packed room in which most security personnel were forced to the sides, and 20 video cameras lined the back of the room. About an hour before the news conference, a Secret Service agent arrived and gave waiting Iraqi journalists, who didn't know that Bush was making a surprise visit, a fourth and final search. No Secret Service agent was in view on the video when Zaidi threw the first shoe at Bush's head from about 20 feet away and shouted in Arabic: ``This is a goodbye kiss, you dog.'' Bush dodged the shoe, and Maliki, who was standing to Bush's left, tried to block Zaidi's second attempt, which also missed its target. A Secret Service agent appeared to move to Bush's side, but the president waved him off. The video shows that another Iraqi journalist, not security agents, pulled Zaidi to the floor before Iraqi police and Secret Service agents piled on him and carried him from the room. While Bush wasn't harmed, the incident was reminiscent of John W. Hinckley's failed attempt to assassinate President Ronald Reagan on March 30, 1981 . Hinckley slipped into a crowd of reporters outside the Washington Hilton , and when Reagan emerged from a speaking appearance, the 25-year-old drifter fired six shots with a .22-caliber handgun, hitting Reagan in the chest, permanently disabling presidential press secretary Jim Brady with a bullet to the head and wounding a Secret Service agent and a police officer. After that incident, the Secret Service began requiring journalists to undergo background checks, credentialing and screening with metal detectors. Donovan said that everyone attending Sunday's event ``was searched for weapons and passed through several layers of security'' before entering the room. He said that they also were subject to name checks, identification checks and verification that they represented their identified news employers. ``It's obvious that (Bush) could have been hit in the head with a shoe,'' he said. ``Anytime there's an incident like this, we're going to review it. We're always trying to improve ourselves.''

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To be fair, George Bush has come out as a gentleman in this stupidity show by Sunni Arab Iraqis. Anyone can loose his calm when things get that personal, but Bush kept his cool, so give credit where it's due. Not relevant, but just imagine, if someone threw a shoe on Burqa Hussain Obama, all hell will break loose with remarks like racism, right wingers trageting a pious socialist, cheap tactics yada yada.:giggle:

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That could have hurt 'badly' had he connected. Nice reflexes there from Georgie, especially in the first attempt. Even after that, he was quite calm and composed as the madman hurled the next one.

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