6 Responses to Let’s All Send Shoes to Bush

1. bluebutterfly January 11th, 2009 at 3:34 am «

   MONDAY, JANUARY 19th
   11:00am CONVERGENCE followed by SHOE THROWING AT THE WHITE HOUSE

   Why Shoe Bush?
   Our president stood in a nation he had illegally invaded and occupied, where his actions had caused over 1.2 million deaths, 5 million people forced out of their homes, millions more deprived of electricity or clean water and afraid to walk the streets. He stood smiling in a nation he had transformed into a living hell, a place where everyone had seen loved ones and neighbors killed. And when Muntadar Al-Zeidi threw two shoes at him, our president remarked “I don’t know what his beef is.”

   But billions of people around the world believed that the pretended obliviousness of George W. Bush to the pain and suffering he was inflicting had gone on as long as they could stand if not much longer, and Al-Zeidi became a hero overnight. His two shoes punctured the Bush veil of separation, the distance Bush pretends to imagine exists between his decisions and the human limbs scattered in the sand of his colony. And while the U.S. media pretended to wonder whether the water torture was “really” torture, the United States and its puppet government in Iraq inflicted on Al-Zeidi one of the more commonly employed torture techniques of the Bush regime: they beat him and broke his bones.

   http://shoebush.org/
• peony January 11th, 2009 at 4:02 pm «

  BB, thanks for the link.

  Obviously I cannot look into Bush’s soul, but I think what we’re seeing is either a massive defense against the truth, or it’s self-delusion.

  I hope such events resonate and that we see many more of them in the coming years.

  I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. I think the country needs a truth and reconciliation process like the one in South Africa in the aftermath of the brutal regime of apartheid.
2. bluebutterfly January 11th, 2009 at 4:09 am «

   The ‘freedom’ Bush gave the Iraqi people.

   Dreams of reaching Europe grind to a halt in Beirut ghetto
   Rabi’a is one of two million Iraqis who have ended up in Syria, Jordan and Lebanon in the hope of making a better life

   I keep it packed ready to leave,” he says. Next-door there are more than 12 Iraqi refugees living in a three-roomed apartment.

   Rabi’a and his friend spend most of their time in Lebanon indoors. Like most Iraqi refugees they have no genuine papers, and if they are arrested they will end up in a Kafkaesque cycle of jail and police cells and fines which will eventually lead them back to Iraq.

   Rabi’a was a student in the Institute of Technology in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. As a Christian, he and his family experienced the sectarian violence of Iraq two years before it reached Baghdad and became an open civil war. They were targeted by al-Qaida in Iraq and Sunni extremist groups.

   He spent two months in a Syrian jail. “The Syrians were bad: the Syrian intelligence agents would beat us, asking us who smuggled us.”

   Eventually he was dropped across the border in Iraq, and stayed there for few weeks. “I felt I was suffocating. I was scared, the insurgents drive openly in the streets. Everyone is scared of them.”

   Two weeks later he fled Iraq again. This time he entered Syria on a forged Iraqi passport and paid $200 to smugglers who brought him to Lebanon.

   “In Iraq there is no future, no one has a future. Iraq is like a big prison,” he says. “We are talking to a people smuggler now. He has a very good plan for how we can reach Europe, but it’s very dangerous. It doesn’t matter, though, because if I go back to Iraq, I will die.”

   http://www.guardian.co.uk/worl…..aq.lebanon
3. gbsavatar January 11th, 2009 at 9:13 am «

   I wouldn’t send him anything, including the dust from my shoes, but I would happily contribute for a one-way ticket sending him to the Hague.
• peony January 11th, 2009 at 4:16 pm «

  I agree with the feeling. Won’t happen though. This is a symbolic act which in a small way but concretely demonstrates the judgment of the American people.

  iirc, Jung wrote in his autobiography about a woman who had murdered her sibling in order to eliminate her path to marrying the spouse. Over the years, her family, one by one, withdrew from her, even her pets, until in the end she was left completely isolated and alone. While she escaped going to prison, it’s as though she was tried and sentenced. Something similar can happen to Bush and Cheney. From many of their statements, they already exhibit a kind of isolation from others and from reality and that is a sentence in and of itself.
4. EvilDrPuma January 11th, 2009 at 7:53 pm «

   …but I would happily contribute for a one-way ticket sending him to the Hague.

   I think we should charge the Bush family for the cost of extradition.