Comments on: Try that One on for Size: Al-Zaidi Puts Iraq Back on the Map http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/12/try-that-one-on-for-size-al-zaidi-puts-iraq-back-on-the-map/ a radical newsletter in the struggle for peace and social justice Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:26:56 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Shabnam http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/12/try-that-one-on-for-size-al-zaidi-puts-iraq-back-on-the-map/#comment-34063 Shabnam Sat, 20 Dec 2008 15:49:10 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/?p=5415#comment-34063 Since the war criminals with thousand of WMD at their hands feel free to destroy the world and kill millions of people with no penalty to expand their influence and domination all over the world, Monthater Al-Ziadi have shown the world an effective way to warn the empire builders of their criminal acts if their citizen are UNABLE to bring these criminals to justices. The latest regarding throwing something in the air is the case of a journalist who threw his BOOT at one of the speaker at Ukraine-NATO inauguration to stop him. This piece has been reported in ‘Pat Dollard’ and repeated in other sources. I don’t know how legitimate is ‘pat dollard’? In any case this is the piece: Oleg Soskin, a member of the Ukraine-NATO Social League Coordination Council, was making a speech when he was interrupted by a journalist from one of the local TV channels, who shouted: “Students, you’re young and promising, don’t you listen to these stupid and marasmic old men!” The journalist then took off his boots and threw them at Soskin. Lat More..er the journalist, whose name is yet unknown, said that “the issue of boots’ is very vital in the world these days. Just remember how Bush had shoes thrown at him in Iraq… and as for our case, a boot is the most effective way to fight NATO’s expansion in Ukraine.” http://patdollard.com/2008/12/journo-throw-boot-not-shoes-in-the-ukraine/ Since the war criminals with thousand of WMD at their hands feel free to destroy the world and kill millions of people with no penalty to expand their influence and domination all over the world, Monthater Al-Ziadi have shown the world an effective way to warn the empire builders of their criminal acts if their citizen are UNABLE to bring these criminals to justices.
The latest regarding throwing something in the air is the case of a journalist who threw his BOOT at one of the speaker at Ukraine-NATO inauguration to stop him. This piece has been reported in ‘Pat Dollard’ and repeated in other sources. I don’t know how legitimate is ‘pat dollard’? In any case this is the piece:

Oleg Soskin, a member of the Ukraine-NATO Social League Coordination Council, was making a speech when he was interrupted by a journalist from one of the local TV channels, who shouted: “Students, you’re young and promising, don’t you listen to these stupid and marasmic old men!” The journalist then took off his boots and threw them at Soskin.
Lat More..er the journalist, whose name is yet unknown, said that “the issue of boots’ is very vital in the world these days. Just remember how Bush had shoes thrown at him in Iraq… and as for our case, a boot is the most effective way to fight NATO’s expansion in Ukraine.”
http://patdollard.com/2008/12/journo-throw-boot-not-shoes-in-the-ukraine/

]]> By: Shabnam http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/12/try-that-one-on-for-size-al-zaidi-puts-iraq-back-on-the-map/#comment-34059 Shabnam Sat, 20 Dec 2008 13:35:29 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/?p=5415#comment-34059 When Montather Al-Zaidi threw his shoe at Bush, he became a hero among Iraqis and many other groups worldwide. He might had planned this or not, but it was obvious that he did not want to hit Bush rather to make his point clear that Iraqi people will never forget the Bush’s war crimes against humanity and warned those who want to take the region into another Zionist war where Iraq cannot be immune from further destruction. He wanted to put the destruction of Iraq and its people at the centre stage to be remembered that the war has serious consequences especially when there is high concentration of WMD in the hands of war criminals like the neocon. Many people in the West supported him and wrote the following line repeatedly: {Hitting someone with your shoes is possibly the worst insult in the Middle East. The second worst is probably calling someone a dog. Bush got both.} To hit someone with a shoe is an insult in any culture. What is different, however, is that Muslims do not enter the room with their shoes on, do not pray with shoes on, or do not place their feet with on the table, which is not unusual thing to do in the west, with their shoes on. They believe worn shoes are DIRTY since you walk with them everywhere. Anyway, many in the world including the United States supported Al-Zaidi’s action. They argue Bush deserved it since Bush is responsible for invasion and destruction of Iraq with more than 1.2 million dead. Strangely enough, few Arab journalists, who earn their money through writing on behalf of the imperialists and Zionists’ interest and their Arab head of states as enablers, such as Saudi Arabia, condemned Al-Zaidi’s action. One of them is Raghida Dergham, a Lebanese US citizen living in the United States and is the senior diplomatic correspondent and columnist for Al Hayat - like many others owns by the Saudi Arabia- who condemned Al-Zaidi for his action. http://www.raghidadergham.com/ In a TV program, Chris Matthews hosted Raghida Dergham, MSNBC contributor and another fellow talking about the Flying Footwear. He said: "what is with Arabs always ready ... drinking sweet tea ... with a shoe ... we look at you and joke here ... why don't you hold it against the looting Assads in Syria .. and not our flag...." Dergham said I was "embarrassed" by the "despicable" behavior of the journalist. She said it was "an act of cowardice" and that speaks for Arab bankruptcy. ANGRYARAB, an Arab internet journal, had this to say against Dergham: {Now let us ponder that? Let us apply journalistic standards for the evaluation of media behavior. Which is more despicable? The shoe throwing or the journalists who were embedded or not embedded who cheered a war that killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqis (and Afghans)? What about those journalists who peddled fake stories of Iraqi WMDs? What about those Iraqi puppet journalists who put their names on stories written for them by a contractor for the Pentagon? She then said that she was recently in Bahrain attending the US security conference and saw many Arabs thanking Petreus for the help he provided in Iraq. I watched that segment and left learning about Saudi-owned media what I knew not before. And there is a long list of Iraqi journalists who were tortured, beaten, killed, or injured by US occupiers. Did Dergham speak out on their behalf? Did she call the murder of Al-Jazeera correspondent by US gunfire "despicable"? I came to this country knowing that an Arab before he/she can speak in the US, they have to denounce and renounce any form of Palestinian political violence. The standards have tightened. Now, Arabs are expected to denounce shoe throwing. Dergham stressed that what happened with the shoe should not "blind us" to the fact that "Iraqis are grateful for what the US has done in Iraq". She said that US troops have made things better for Iraqis.} Other people called Raghida Dergham a Bush lackey. Arab intellectuals must expose Arab puppet head of states’ journalists such as Raghida Dergham who uses her pen on behalf of the Zionist/imperialist’s interests and its enablers such as Saudi Arabia where gives financial support to ‘journalist’ who are willing to protect American interest in the region against Arab population and people of the region. When Montather Al-Zaidi threw his shoe at Bush, he became a hero among Iraqis and many other groups worldwide. He might had planned this or not, but it was obvious that he did not want to hit Bush rather to make his point clear that Iraqi people will never forget the Bush’s war crimes against humanity and warned those who want to take the region into another Zionist war where Iraq cannot be immune from further destruction. He wanted to put the destruction of Iraq and its people at the centre stage to be remembered that the war has serious consequences especially when there is high concentration of WMD in the hands of war criminals like the neocon.
Many people in the West supported him and wrote the following line repeatedly:
{Hitting someone with your shoes is possibly the worst insult in the Middle East. The second worst is probably calling someone a dog. Bush got both.}
To hit someone with a shoe is an insult in any culture. What is different, however, is that Muslims do not enter the room with their shoes on, do not pray with shoes on, or do not place their feet with on the table, which is not unusual thing to do in the west, with their shoes on. They believe worn shoes are DIRTY since you walk with them everywhere.
Anyway, many in the world including the United States supported Al-Zaidi’s action. They argue Bush deserved it since Bush is responsible for invasion and destruction of Iraq with more than 1.2 million dead. Strangely enough, few Arab journalists, who earn their money through writing on behalf of the imperialists and Zionists’ interest and their Arab head of states as enablers, such as Saudi Arabia, condemned Al-Zaidi’s action.
One of them is Raghida Dergham, a Lebanese US citizen living in the United States and is the senior diplomatic correspondent and columnist for Al Hayat – like many others owns by the Saudi Arabia- who condemned Al-Zaidi for his action.
http://www.raghidadergham.com/

In a TV program, Chris Matthews hosted Raghida Dergham, MSNBC contributor and another fellow talking about the Flying Footwear. He said: “what is with Arabs always ready … drinking sweet tea … with a shoe … we look at you and joke here … why don’t you hold it against the looting Assads in Syria .. and not our flag….”
Dergham said I was “embarrassed” by the “despicable” behavior of the journalist. She said it was “an act of cowardice” and that speaks for Arab bankruptcy.
ANGRYARAB, an Arab internet journal, had this to say against Dergham:
{Now let us ponder that? Let us apply journalistic standards for the evaluation of media behavior. Which is more despicable? The shoe throwing or the journalists who were embedded or not embedded who cheered a war that killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqis (and Afghans)? What about those journalists who peddled fake stories of Iraqi WMDs? What about those Iraqi puppet journalists who put their names on stories written for them by a contractor for the Pentagon? She then said that she was recently in Bahrain attending the US security conference and saw many Arabs thanking Petreus for the help he provided in Iraq. I watched that segment and left learning about Saudi-owned media what I knew not before. And there is a long list of Iraqi journalists who were tortured, beaten, killed, or injured by US occupiers. Did Dergham speak out on their behalf? Did she call the murder of Al-Jazeera correspondent by US gunfire “despicable”? I came to this country knowing that an Arab before he/she can speak in the US, they have to denounce and renounce any form of Palestinian political violence. The standards have tightened. Now, Arabs are expected to denounce shoe throwing. Dergham stressed that what happened with the shoe should not “blind us” to the fact that “Iraqis are grateful for what the US has done in Iraq”. She said that US troops have made things better for Iraqis.}

Other people called Raghida Dergham a Bush lackey.
Arab intellectuals must expose Arab puppet head of states’ journalists such as Raghida Dergham who uses her pen on behalf of the Zionist/imperialist’s interests and its enablers such as Saudi Arabia where gives financial support to ‘journalist’ who are willing to protect American interest in the region against Arab population and people of the region.

]]> By: Myles Hoenig http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/12/try-that-one-on-for-size-al-zaidi-puts-iraq-back-on-the-map/#comment-33945 Myles Hoenig Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:18:55 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/?p=5415#comment-33945 Awesome idea about mailing the package! Recommend that you don't put your return address on, or at least a fictitious one. I also tried to go to http://play.sockandawe.com/ but my computer crashed. I'm already up to 11. So many people are on it!! Awesome idea about mailing the package! Recommend that you don’t put your return address on, or at least a fictitious one.
I also tried to go to http://play.sockandawe.com/ but my computer crashed. I’m already up to 11. So many people are on it!!

]]> By: Bob http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/12/try-that-one-on-for-size-al-zaidi-puts-iraq-back-on-the-map/#comment-33936 Bob Thu, 18 Dec 2008 13:58:57 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/?p=5415#comment-33936 History repeating itself, isn't it? Bush II, doltish, me-firster, thrower of high explosives and 5.56mm projectiles of a certain lethality, gets a couple of shoes thrown at him, and really doesn't understand it. Remember Daddy Bush in Panama? Invades a country, people are injured and killed, some protest within his heraring when he comes down to beam benevolently at the devastation. His take? Just a bunch of "old lefties" who are mad about not having power. Not to mention his mommy's comment about the people of New Orleans. What can we expect from a pack like that? And it looks like we are getting dynasties of these varmints. History repeating itself, isn’t it? Bush II, doltish, me-firster, thrower of high explosives and 5.56mm projectiles of a certain lethality, gets a couple of shoes thrown at him, and really doesn’t understand it.

Remember Daddy Bush in Panama? Invades a country, people are injured and killed, some protest within his heraring when he comes down to beam benevolently at the devastation. His take? Just a bunch of “old lefties” who are mad about not having power.

Not to mention his mommy’s comment about the people of New Orleans.

What can we expect from a pack like that?

And it looks like we are getting dynasties of these varmints.

]]> By: redcatbiker http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/12/try-that-one-on-for-size-al-zaidi-puts-iraq-back-on-the-map/#comment-33924 redcatbiker Thu, 18 Dec 2008 05:11:32 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/?p=5415#comment-33924 Your Shoes For Bush http://yourshoesforbush.com/ Some folks in Ireland set this up. Let us show worldwide support for Al-Zaidi! From the website: Us folks at Charlie´s Bar in Lanzarote think that it would be fantastic to post as many pairs of shoes as possible to George W. Bush. Wasn´t it a great idea and a lovely gesture from the reporter who gave his shoes to Mr Bush? Simply post a pair of shoes to: Mr George W. Bush c/o The Whitehouse 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington DC 20500 United States of America We sincerely hope this will catch on around the whole World, so go and tell all your web friends on Bebo, MySpace, Facebook etc., and if someone could translate this page into other languages (including Arabic) for us that would be great, so CONTACT US at: shoes @ yourshoesforbush.com We hope Mr Bush will receive at least ONE MILLION PAIRS OF SHOES for his retirement, so..... MAKE IT HAPPEN!!!! It will not cost much in postage! So go on and take just take 10 minutes to go to your local post office and send him a pair of shoes! Go on, go on! Just do it! You know you want to! ;) We feel we should all follow his example. Your Shoes For Bush http://yourshoesforbush.com/

Some folks in Ireland set this up. Let us show worldwide support for Al-Zaidi! From the website:

Us folks at Charlie´s Bar in Lanzarote think that it would be fantastic to post as many pairs of shoes as possible to George W. Bush.

Wasn´t it a great idea and a lovely gesture from the reporter who gave his shoes to Mr Bush?

Simply post a pair of shoes to:

Mr George W. Bush
c/o The Whitehouse
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington DC 20500
United States of America

We sincerely hope this will catch on around the whole World, so go and tell all your web friends on Bebo, MySpace, Facebook etc., and if someone could translate this page into other languages (including Arabic) for us that would be great, so CONTACT US at:

shoes @ yourshoesforbush.com

We hope Mr Bush will receive at least ONE MILLION PAIRS OF SHOES for his retirement, so….. MAKE IT HAPPEN!!!!

It will not cost much in postage! So go on and take just take 10 minutes to go to your local post office and send him a pair of shoes!

Go on, go on! Just do it! You know you want to! ;)

We feel we should all follow his example.

]]> By: dino http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/12/try-that-one-on-for-size-al-zaidi-puts-iraq-back-on-the-map/#comment-33922 dino Thu, 18 Dec 2008 04:40:28 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/?p=5415#comment-33922 What the mean propaganda try to say now is the lie that the incident show how much democracy penetrated the minds of Iraqi people.Al_Zaidi dared to throw the shoes only because in democracy one could dare to do it.Have Bush courage to make alone a walk in a street of Baghdad to feel how much Iraqi people became democratic.Al-Zaidi gesture not repeat an unimportant contradiction between a labour member and a cons in British Parliament in the end of which one throw something at other as a sign that that can not deserve to be a discussion partner.Al-Zaidi gesture means that that not deserve to be at all. What the mean propaganda try to say now is the lie that the incident show how much democracy penetrated the minds of Iraqi people.Al_Zaidi dared to throw the shoes only because in democracy one could dare to do it.Have Bush courage to make alone a walk in a street of Baghdad to feel how much Iraqi people became democratic.Al-Zaidi gesture not repeat an unimportant contradiction between a labour member and a cons in British Parliament in the end of which one throw something at other as a sign that that can not deserve to be a discussion partner.Al-Zaidi gesture means that that not deserve to be at all.

]]> By: catherine http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/12/try-that-one-on-for-size-al-zaidi-puts-iraq-back-on-the-map/#comment-33917 catherine Thu, 18 Dec 2008 01:47:46 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/?p=5415#comment-33917 But what will happen to al-Zaidi, the courageous and righteous man? If he'd managed to hit the bastard, he'd be dead by now. His brother says he's been beaten so badly that he can't yet appear in court. Bless you, Mr. al-Zaidi. But what will happen to al-Zaidi, the courageous and righteous man?

If he’d managed to hit the bastard, he’d be dead by now. His brother says he’s been beaten so badly that he can’t yet appear in court.

Bless you, Mr. al-Zaidi.

]]> By: Hue Longer http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/12/try-that-one-on-for-size-al-zaidi-puts-iraq-back-on-the-map/#comment-33907 Hue Longer Wed, 17 Dec 2008 23:18:10 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/?p=5415#comment-33907 Who cares if the western media does what it does and tries to forget the story or the significance of it? It is bigger than the western media and won't die in Iraq. Oh man what is the puppet regime going to do, release a tortured martyr or say he hanged himself? Who cares if the western media does what it does and tries to forget the story or the significance of it? It is bigger than the western media and won’t die in Iraq. Oh man what is the puppet regime going to do, release a tortured martyr or say he hanged himself?

]]> By: DavidG. http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/12/try-that-one-on-for-size-al-zaidi-puts-iraq-back-on-the-map/#comment-33905 DavidG. Wed, 17 Dec 2008 22:34:25 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/?p=5415#comment-33905 Bush has never faced the reality of his warmongering! He sits safely in the Oval Office and walks his dogs around the Rose Garden. If he was made to go to Iraq every few months and see for himself the death and devastation that he caused with his phony war: the limbless and headless bodies, the burned children, the raped women, things might have been different. The only violence he's witnessed since the invasion is the throwing of the shoes! It's better than nothing, I suppose. www.dangerouscreation.com Bush has never faced the reality of his warmongering! He sits safely in the Oval Office and walks his dogs around the Rose Garden.

If he was made to go to Iraq every few months and see for himself the death and devastation that he caused with his phony war: the limbless and headless bodies, the burned children, the raped women, things might have been different.

The only violence he’s witnessed since the invasion is the throwing of the shoes!

It’s better than nothing, I suppose.

http://www.dangerouscreation.com

]]> By: kahar http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/12/try-that-one-on-for-size-al-zaidi-puts-iraq-back-on-the-map/#comment-33903 kahar Wed, 17 Dec 2008 22:19:25 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/?p=5415#comment-33903 "..and the curious, almost racist, fascination with the meaning of the throwing of a shoe in Arab culture.." The REAL meaning behind throwing your shoes at Bush.. here it is, what you've all been waiting for (drum roll please): He couldn't bring a gun or a knife into the room and there was nothing else to throw at the dirty SOB pervert. “..and the curious, almost racist, fascination with the meaning of the throwing of a shoe in Arab culture..”

The REAL meaning behind throwing your shoes at Bush.. here it is, what you’ve all been waiting for (drum roll please):

He couldn’t bring a gun or a knife into the room and there was nothing else to throw at the dirty SOB pervert.

]]> By: Xihuitl http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/12/try-that-one-on-for-size-al-zaidi-puts-iraq-back-on-the-map/#comment-33901 Xihuitl Wed, 17 Dec 2008 21:58:05 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/?p=5415#comment-33901 Send your shoes to Bush. Pile them up! Join this brave man in his protest! All journalists should be so moral. Send your shoes to Bush. Pile them up! Join this brave man in his protest! All journalists should be so moral.

]]> By: bozh http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/12/try-that-one-on-for-size-al-zaidi-puts-iraq-back-on-the-map/#comment-33888 bozh Wed, 17 Dec 2008 18:16:57 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/?p=5415#comment-33888 but, kiss for and hug of al-bushi wld have worked better. but only after he sees some dead bodies in the morgues. or, how about, it doesn't really matter what one does to or says ab him; US goes on. USA, USA, USA! that's all folks! thnx but, kiss for and hug of al-bushi wld have worked better. but only after he sees some dead bodies in the morgues.
or, how about, it doesn’t really matter what one does to or says ab him; US goes on. USA, USA, USA! that’s all folks! thnx

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