George Bush nearly pelted with shoes

[Mar]

...amazing this guy was damn near a hero and now he's over there crying like a little bitch. Reguardless of who the pres is...(and i don't even vote) or how you feel or don't feel about the guy this shat was crazy, after all the time the secret service or whatever sits around doing nothing they finally have a chance to gun some clown down, anyhow anyone being killed is bad but if someone deserved it...i didn't see him chuckin shoes at the previous leaders there who were cutting off thier heads and whatever else. Take that fucker to jail, throw some shoes in there.

[Kirkland Laing]

In the Iranian capital Tehran, hard-line Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati praised the act at Friday prayers, calling it the "Shoe Intifada."
Jannati proposed people in Iraq and Iran should carry shoes in further anti-American demonstrations.
"This should be a role model," he said.


Shoe-tossing journalist was beaten, Iraqi judge says - International Herald Tribune

Come up with your own lines turban boy, I came up with the Shoe Intifada first. And fired the first shot in it. Well, the second.

[AdamGB]

Shoes in Iraq? good god! people carrying shoes!...

If the place somehow doesn't descent into total Anarchy after this outrage then I bet the US will immediately pull out because they will find the act of shoe carrying so outrageously offensive.

I'm not even in Iraq and my morals have been shaken to the core!

[Kirkland Laing]

The shoe hurled at President George W. Bush has sent sales soaring at the Turkish maker as orders pour in from Iraq, the U.S. and Iran. The brown, thick-soled “Model 271” may soon be renamed “The Bush Shoe” or “Bye-Bye Bush,” Ramazan Baydan, who owns the Istanbul-based producer Baydan Ayakkabicilik San. & Tic., said in a telephone interview today.
“We’ve been selling these shoes for years but, thanks to Bush, orders are flying in like crazy,” he said. “We’ve even hired an agency to look at television advertising.”



Baydan has received orders for 300,000 pairs of the shoes since the attack, more than four times the number his company sold each year since the model was introduced in 1999. The company plans to employ 100 more staff to meet demand, he said.


Bloomberg.com: Europe

You know what to get me for Christmas now.

[Kirkland Laing]

The first Shoe Intifada demonstration in the West Bank, peace be upon them.