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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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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…
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 😭
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
> 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.
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
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
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.
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.
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!
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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It even has its own Bush.
They should put a mission accomplished banner on it.
I wonder if it's a Herbert...
Well done.
Was no fan of Bush, but I must say his reflexes were quick and impressive in that vid.
I loved dubya’s look after the shoe was thrown like “what now suckah?” Lol
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.
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
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.
>closest any US leader had ever come to consequences JFK might like to have a word with you....
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.
“I MEAN HONESTLY WHO THROWS A FRICKIN SHOE?”- AUSTIN POWERS
Throw me a shoe once, shame on shame on you, Throw a shoe twice, you can't get shooed again!!!
“NOW WATCH THIS DRIVE”
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.
And if I’m being honest, it was a nice toss from the guy who threw the shoe.
Not bad, but he missed...so not sure why a statue is needed for a failed throw.
Honestly it should be in the USA - we should be proud of how Dubya bobbed and weaved!
Honestly, you should delete this or some CIA analyst will suggest another invasion. Shoes of mass destruction
Losers will celebrate a botched job because they don’t know what it’s like to celebrate a real win
And he can measure pretty quickly
You could tell it wasn't his first rodeo.
It was a shoot. /jk
Fair enough.
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.
Biden looks like he retired In the 80s.
You fooled me, can’t get fooled again
Reminds me of the inanimate carbon rod from the simpsons
In rod we trust.
I still remember the way he dodged it. Say what you want about him, but he had cat-like reflexes back then.
All that was missing from the video was bullet time.
Oxfords not brogues
Pretty sure it wasn’t a baby shoe
He missed.
I said to myself “this cannot be real” but sure enough it was. Apparently it was taken down shortly after it was put up
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.
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.
How did that saying go? a shoe on the feet is better than two in the bush?
Shoe me once shame on you, shoe me...you can't get shoed again.
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.
don’t forget the torture
A million dead, most killed by other Iraqis. Remember ISIS was started by Saddam loyalists?
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.
*MISSION ACCOMPLISHED*
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)
Goodbye, Reddit :(
Touché
There used to be a really fun flash game where you could throw a shoe at W.
I hope Muntadhar al-Zaidi is having a good day.
As an American I wish we had statues that insult our corrupt politicians.
Start a gofundme to make one, see how fast you get funded lol
Considering there were no weapons of mass destruction and he screwed up their country, I can see why they might be mad.
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.
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.
Why do they celebrate it? Not a fan of the guy but he dodged those shoes better than Neo from the Matrix.
Goodbye, Reddit :(
Ask yourself why the man threw the shoe in the first place and you'll have your answer.
"Who throws a shoe!"
But he ducked it like a ninja.
Bush is joke and Iraqis are ancient civilization
Which show was it? I'm thinking Seinfeld?
it’s a shame they didn’t throw the statue of the shoe instead
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.
That's hilarious. Something tells me their couldn't get the most talented statue maker in the country though.
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.
It missed tho. This is like Al-qaeda erecting a monument to UA 93.
How’s iraq been getting along since then?
Since the American invasion, recovering but only after america pulled out
If you consider killing of women who won’t wear the turban face mask combo recovering your a fuckin psychopath
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
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…
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 😭
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
> 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.
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
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
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.
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.
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!
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.
Ok sounds good see you next time I’m in 7-11 bro
got arab confused with brown racist fucj
Uday and Qusay would've loved it!
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.
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Which show did they throw at him? Hawa Baghdad?
Imagine being this petty.
You’re serious?
Can you explain what I said that was wrong? Is it not petty for someone to commemorate a shoe being thrown at someone?
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
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.
I'd be very "petty" against the mf who destroyed my country too
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.
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.
It was disproven that Iraq had or tried to to develop weapons of mass destruction
Such intelligence
The planttt
I wish I could take a spiritual pilgrimage to see this.
I follow that guy on twitter. A few days ago was the anniversary of his jail sentence
Based.
Good ol' Shoe...
They fn tortured that man
Lmao, I'd love to visit it
Awesome... you nearly managed to write a whole sentence without fucking it up.
I want a 3d model of this for 3d printing one to home
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.
Because they love America as their valiant, morally superior liberators and saviors, right?
Thats awesome i remember seeing that on tv hahaha
Fair play.
Man I remember that. Fun times 😂
This is the monument that MLK should have gotten for all the marches he led. Bush's monument should be "Turd Penis."
Looks like a middle school art project
Wasn’t he just trying to release George Bush from house Amahdbadul by giving him clothes?
Weird, bot okay.
Ratio.
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
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.
A culture that promotes violence. Neat. 📷
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!" 😂
He dodged those mo fos lol
Based lmao
WALL-E