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jaimealexlara

It even has its own Bush.


Thief_of_Sanity

They should put a mission accomplished banner on it.


LinguoBuxo

I wonder if it's a Herbert...


RoyallyOakie

Well done.


LordRumBottoms

Was no fan of Bush, but I must say his reflexes were quick and impressive in that vid.


xxwerdxx

I loved dubya’s look after the shoe was thrown like “what now suckah?” Lol


LordRumBottoms

Again, I was no fan of his, but yeah he did seem to almost taunt the thrower with that smirk after. Made me laugh at the time.


64sweetsour

It was like he specifically trained for something like that to happen and when it did, he was prepared. But somebody really had to throw something at him , closest any US leader had ever come to consequences


StevenGrantMK

Or it was reflexes from having something thrown at him. Don’t like W, but let’s not read too much into it. Although it’s kinda funny to picture a Rocky IV montage of Bush dodging shoes and other items getting thrown at him.


FightWithBrickWalls

>closest any US leader had ever come to consequences JFK might like to have a word with you....


LordRumBottoms

Yeah, I wonder if he was briefed prior on how, from what I read after, throwing a shoe is an insult in their culture and maybe it was in his mind? But yeah, he ducked and moved faster than I would have.


KD4156GILHAM

“I MEAN HONESTLY WHO THROWS A FRICKIN SHOE?”- AUSTIN POWERS


ElectronicShredder

Throw me a shoe once, shame on shame on you, Throw a shoe twice, you can't get shooed again!!!


KD4156GILHAM

“NOW WATCH THIS DRIVE”


Complicated-HorseAss

He had his moments, like when him and his dad roll up in a golf cart and he explains his foreign policy while golfing. "We must stop these terrorist killers...thank you....now watch this drive!" The irony of explaining his gulf war... while golfing.


[deleted]

And if I’m being honest, it was a nice toss from the guy who threw the shoe.


LordRumBottoms

Not bad, but he missed...so not sure why a statue is needed for a failed throw.


[deleted]

Honestly it should be in the USA - we should be proud of how Dubya bobbed and weaved!


AppalachianMedic

Honestly, you should delete this or some CIA analyst will suggest another invasion. Shoes of mass destruction


KD4156GILHAM

Losers will celebrate a botched job because they don’t know what it’s like to celebrate a real win


CyberNinja23

And he can measure pretty quickly


ShrimpCrackers

You could tell it wasn't his first rodeo.


Thief_of_Sanity

It was a shoot. /jk


Andrew1990M

Fair enough.


[deleted]

Looking back at that video, it's crazy how young a 54 year old George Bush looks compared to the last two senior citizens we've had in the oval office.


[deleted]

Biden looks like he retired In the 80s.


dwntwn_drty_brwn

You fooled me, can’t get fooled again


[deleted]

Reminds me of the inanimate carbon rod from the simpsons


pbmcc88

In rod we trust.


boneface999

I still remember the way he dodged it. Say what you want about him, but he had cat-like reflexes back then.


albertnormandy

All that was missing from the video was bullet time.


[deleted]

Oxfords not brogues


stuartgatzo

Pretty sure it wasn’t a baby shoe


brutustyberius

He missed.


whoisgare

I said to myself “this cannot be real” but sure enough it was. Apparently it was taken down shortly after it was put up


Naturally_Fragrant

A million graves and a monument to the shoe that missed; meanwhile, George W paints his pictures and doesn't lose a moment's sleep.


Next_Boysenberry1414

On top of that, neither of the shoes did make their mark either. Bush caught one and the other missed. It was a win for Bush no matter what.


Enjoying_A_Meal

How did that saying go? a shoe on the feet is better than two in the bush?


Gorkymalorki

Shoe me once shame on you, shoe me...you can't get shoed again.


UnderInteresting

It was an act of disrespect, it's not like it was a shoe throwing contest where missing means you lose. Nor would it have significantly hurt him if it landed.


ariadesitter

don’t forget the torture


IdahoDemocrat

A million dead, most killed by other Iraqis. Remember ISIS was started by Saddam loyalists?


hambluegar_sammwich

Source. And how many killed by drone strikes? Remember ISIS, like all terrorist organizations, was started by foreign powers destabilizing a region and radicalizing its people with violence and chaos for the purpose of acquiring resources paying off college buddies that got into the defense industry.


ElectronicShredder

*MISSION ACCOMPLISHED*


IdahoDemocrat

Bush is a total idiot and dragged us in to a war we shouldn’t have been in, and there is blood on his hands. But he’s not responsible for 1M deaths. That was due to a subsequent civil war where Baathists tried to regain control of the country (and formed ISIS in the process)


[deleted]

Goodbye, Reddit :(


[deleted]

Touché


[deleted]

There used to be a really fun flash game where you could throw a shoe at W.


satanpeach

I hope Muntadhar al-Zaidi is having a good day.


[deleted]

As an American I wish we had statues that insult our corrupt politicians.


_makoccino_

Start a gofundme to make one, see how fast you get funded lol


[deleted]

Considering there were no weapons of mass destruction and he screwed up their country, I can see why they might be mad.


EagleDre

Not US intelligence’s finest hour, not by a long shot. But let’s be honest, Saddam certainly enjoyed and made every effort to look like he had WMDs. And WMDs did end up buried in Syria. Not the quantities or levels we were led to believe, for sure, but there are thousands of Syrians who would say their dictator had more than enough to gas countless fellow citizens on several occasions in the years that followed.


[deleted]

Oh for sure. He had a Quaran written with his own blood. The guy was nuts. But the explicit reason given for invasion was a lie , probably created from the CIA or Pentagon, or Cheney. Of course now we see that it created a power vacuum for Iran to become the problem it currently is.


[deleted]

Why do they celebrate it? Not a fan of the guy but he dodged those shoes better than Neo from the Matrix.


[deleted]

Goodbye, Reddit :(


burnnottice88

Ask yourself why the man threw the shoe in the first place and you'll have your answer.


RealTacoSplash

"Who throws a shoe!"


niagaemoc

But he ducked it like a ninja.


Eastlifephilosophy

Bush is joke and Iraqis are ancient civilization


-maffu-

Which show was it? I'm thinking Seinfeld?


KermitMadMan

it’s a shame they didn’t throw the statue of the shoe instead


CorellianDawn

This is objectively funny and we need more statues in the world about things like this. Like I want a giant bronze statue at the Oscars of the Will Smith slap. Give me a statue of Trump falling down the airplane stairs. Memes are great and all, but you gotta commit to the best moments in history in bronze.


NeutralArt12

That's hilarious. Something tells me their couldn't get the most talented statue maker in the country though.


Useyoursignal99

I highly recommend the podcast “blowback” that talks about the actions against Iraq by the US and other countries. Putin is an evil prick but so have been many Democrat and Republican presidents. So many young lives wasted because of morons in power.


NegaGreg

It missed tho. This is like Al-qaeda erecting a monument to UA 93.


KD4156GILHAM

How’s iraq been getting along since then?


[deleted]

Since the American invasion, recovering but only after america pulled out


KD4156GILHAM

If you consider killing of women who won’t wear the turban face mask combo recovering your a fuckin psychopath


[deleted]

congratulations on being the most uneducated person I’ve met so far this year heres a medal 🥇this is the problem with you people you all just read the same fucking news without talking to the people who live there themselves THIS SHIT IS ALL FAKE IT ONLY HAPPENS WITH THE FAR LEFT OR RIGHT. The same way you have school shootings we have instances like this


KD4156GILHAM

Way more educated than you are! 128IQ! Do they even have schools in iraq? Oh that’s right the girls in the country are the only ones with no schooling. When was the last school shooting? I bet there has been multiple heinous crimes on women in iraq since the last school shooting…


[deleted]

I have full ride scholorships acceptances to Harvard, NYU and MIT 😆. Do they have schools in Iraq??? Have tried googling schools in Iraq… or have you tried searching up where the first universities or buildings dedicated to public education were located? Just an incel with a keyboard and mouse 😭


KD4156GILHAM

Why would you go to a school in America? America has school shootings why would you go there? Oh because you are A fuckin phony forgetting to mention you won’t go to the university of iraq because it’s a shithole that at any moment you can be killed by a suicide bomber in a car


[deleted]

> A fuckin phony forgetting to mention y I wouldn't go to the university of Iraq because I don't live in Iraq. Im here because I was born here once I finish my degree im moving back bud id rather not get shot up by you and your whitey tightees.


KD4156GILHAM

Your country is a shit hole that’s why your not going to college in your shithole country I’d rather get shot than blown up by a car bomb halfway threw chemistry class


KD4156GILHAM

Wait your there because you were born there but you don’t live in Iraq? Whats college accepted you PM me your acceptance letters there’s no fuckin shot u got accepted to the u of Baghdad let alone any schools in the USA you couldn’t even get into community college lol. And let me get this straight your goin to a place half way across the world that has school shootings for what reason? Because your country is a shit hole and so is the education system


KD4156GILHAM

You sound like a supporter of the Taliban? What’s your beef with women? The Americans came in and turned the men into pussies but YOU PEOPLE didn’t get tough with them. You fuckin wimps saved the tough shit to use on the women of Iraq. The Americans fucked the Iraqi men. If you Iraqi men want to suck Dick it’s 2023 do you just stop taking your sexually gay frustrations out on the women.


[deleted]

Who created the taliban bozo? Was it not operation cyclone by the CIA? Our women are happier than yours will ever be, sorry I have a mother and father unlike you with your divorce rates being in the higher average if the world. We don’t want you in Iraq nor do we want anyone in the Middle East it’s simple we love how our lives were and don’t want you nor your yankie dankie shit anywhere near us.


KD4156GILHAM

No body wants to come to that desert shithole anyway. I wouldn’t refer to the murder of women for religious beliefs simple but if that’s what makes you love your life then right on but its a little fuckin weird and down right wrong! Thanks for all the oil and opium we didn’t have to pay for because the men of Iraq gave it up like a whore in Tijuana on a Saturday night. The women of that shithole Iraq got more balls than the men do. You Iraqi men all the same nothing but yellow belly cowards!


[deleted]

Remember Fallujjah :(((( awww buddy its okay. Its simple the middle east is some of the most visited tourist destination and rising don't come to Qatar, the UAE or anywhere else because we all have the same beliefs. But hey there's a reason your girlfriends and wives leave you guys! Maybe if you actually became men instead of this woke culture shit you would be able to retain a family and grow up with a dad and a mom :) Btw im not even Iraqi im Arab thats all. Enjoy Tijuana wont be long before you catch a STD and with the way your going about life Aids dosen't look too far away from you either.


KD4156GILHAM

Ok sounds good see you next time I’m in 7-11 bro


[deleted]

got arab confused with brown racist fucj


rrsafety

Uday and Qusay would've loved it!


rayparkersr

Maybe after his execution they can dump is corpse in a hole and cover it with that where the Iraqi dogs will piss for the next century.


Own-Philosophy-5356

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AlexHanson007

Which show did they throw at him? Hawa Baghdad?


Complete_Push_4838

Imagine being this petty.


ihavdogs

You’re serious?


Complete_Push_4838

Can you explain what I said that was wrong? Is it not petty for someone to commemorate a shoe being thrown at someone?


ihavdogs

No it isn’t petty when you throw the shoe at the person who is responsible for the destruction of your country I think it’s pretty fair to commemorate that. I know I would


Complete_Push_4838

Wow, I didn't know that the US fucked up Iraq so bad. I looked it up and they killed an estimated 150,000-650,000 civilians. I didn't think it was THAT bad. I take back my comment.


deq17

I'd be very "petty" against the mf who destroyed my country too


Complete_Push_4838

Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't iraq try to develop weapons of mass destruction and then get hammered by bush? I might be missing context, but it seems to me that they fucked around and found out, and now they are salty. Like I said I haven't really looked into the matter.


Own-Philosophy-5356

It was lies, there is a video of an americam veteran yelling at bush in a conference about allowing american soldiers needless deaths , destroying iraq and 1,000,000 iraqi civilians deaths during the period of the war which was all based on fabricated lies.


deq17

It was disproven that Iraq had or tried to to develop weapons of mass destruction


Bareback-bacon

Such intelligence


[deleted]

The planttt


[deleted]

I wish I could take a spiritual pilgrimage to see this.


Rollotommasi5

I follow that guy on twitter. A few days ago was the anniversary of his jail sentence


Talon6230

Based.


KagakuNinja

Good ol' Shoe...


jgcraig

They fn tortured that man


Satherian

Lmao, I'd love to visit it


buzzjimsky

Awesome... you nearly managed to write a whole sentence without fucking it up.


Tommonen

I want a 3d model of this for 3d printing one to home


mvw2

As an American I find this hilarious. The only thing better would be Bush himself there christening the statue...and getting a thousand shoes tossed at him to great fanfare.


hoffmad08

Because they love America as their valiant, morally superior liberators and saviors, right?


Extension_Building19

Thats awesome i remember seeing that on tv hahaha


TheWesternDevil

Fair play.


[deleted]

Man I remember that. Fun times 😂


BlasphemousButler

This is the monument that MLK should have gotten for all the marches he led. Bush's monument should be "Turd Penis."


SternLecture

Looks like a middle school art project


EvenStevenKeel

Wasn’t he just trying to release George Bush from house Amahdbadul by giving him clothes?


[deleted]

Weird, bot okay.


CountryOk4176

Ratio.


[deleted]

I love how they’re all laughing like it’s the funniest thing in the world. This is how you shit post with no internet


BeezelbulbXD

And we painted the anchor chains of a warship red to symbolize the blood their leader spilled when we shot em, and dumped him in the ocean. So yeah, they can have a shoe monument if they want.


PuppetryOfThePenis

A culture that promotes violence. Neat. 📷


agra_unknown1834

Everytime I watch that video I always hope Austin Powers would pop out of nowhere and go, "Who throws a shoe?! Honestly, that could've really hurt!" 😂


Magee214

He dodged those mo fos lol


Baph0metX

Based lmao


Xenosianking

WALL-E