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>>>After your joke about the shoes, I was thinking that if most of the citizens in this country had starting throwing shoes at President Bush, while they would have been arrested, perhaps the Senate and Congress would have done their job and impeached him.
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>>Yeah, preferably some 7 years go.
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>>BTW Did you see how he ducked ? Darn that was fast / versatile !
>>Like as if he was dodge-ball game champion rather then president {g}
>>I just cannot imagine any normal president who would manage to react that fast. ( Except maybe Blair {g} )
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>>Imagine for instance Presidents like Gorbatchov or Reagan or that old French president Giscard d'Estain ...
>>But then again, those were presidents of a different breed/substance; Kind that nobody would ever even contemplate throwing their shoes at.
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>What amazes me is the guy got close enough to Bush to throw his shoes at him. Reportedly he was within 15 feet and threw two fastballs at Bush's head.
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>An article in the NY Times yesterday said the guy is now something of a national hero in Iraq.

He was a journalist at press conference. And yes he is already Arab world hero.
There is joke going around that 14th of Dec will be proclaimed freedom holliday in the middle east.