JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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TooFarGone
Author, ME expert and former soldier Ralph Peters nails it:
The only countries in the Middle East where a journalist could survive after such behavior are Iraq, maybe Lebanon - and Israel. Even Jordan doesn't allow such freedom.
"The media have been having a ball with the video of the Great Baghdad Shoe Toss. But they've missed the point completely. Our sacrifices let that pathetic reporter muster the courage to hurl his shoes at our president: He knew he could get away with it.
Brothers and sisters, the world has changed since 2003.
Yes, Iraq could still fail. The Arab genius for failure is the region's salient talent. But one Arab state has been given a chance to build something better than a nationwide prison - not perfect, but better.
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TooFarGone
"Education is another another area in which GW fundamentally failed the population."
And you know this because what? - you live in the US?
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TooFarGone
A little history on the new Arab hero, brave shoe-tosser Muntadhar al-Zeidi:
"...Al-Zeidi [the tosser] may have also been motivated by what a colleague described as a boastful, showoff personality.
'He tried to raise topics to show that nobody is as smart as he is,' said Zanko Ahmed, a Kurdish journalist who attended a journalism training course with al-Zeidi in Lebanon.
Ahmed recalled that al-Zeidi spoke glowingly of anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, whose followers organized protests Monday to demand his release.
'Regrettably, he didn't learn anything from the course in Lebanon, where we were taught ethics of journalism and how to be detached and neutral,' Ahmed said."
http://blogs.rockymountainnews.com/bridget/archives/2008/12/shoechucker-supposedly-hates-i.html
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TooFarGone
"The economic consequences of either a partial or total shutdown of the Detroit Three are stark," said the report.
"Either scenario is sufficient to push Ontario into a deep recession while the nation may barely escape one in the 50-percent reduction scenario."
Likin them apples, zurc and smithinjapan?
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=081216191048.6a9sr3wo&show_article=1
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TooFarGone
cleo:
In a very far-fetched way.
My point being our next president, son of a victim of your corrupt empire in Africa, will also have to deal with the disastrous consequences of British intervention and shortsighted foreign policy in the ME,Afghanistan and Pakistan - whether he likes it or no.
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TooFarGone
cleo:
And like Pakistan those two countries, Iraq and Afghanistan, were also occupied, ruled or created by Great Britain.
Bush - like his "daddy" - is just another US president forced to clean up after you lot with your numerous, far-flung imperial disasters.
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TooFarGone
The biggest scam ever.
Naturally, the perp sought to buy off politicians.
So, which party did he go with?
"Very few media stories of the fraud perpetrated by former Nasdaq chairman Madoff mentions the heavy financial support that Madoff has donated to the Democrat Party. Campaign contributions by Madoff show many thousands of dollars going to Democrat candidates and causes. Including $100,000 to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign, thousands to Charles Rangel (D, NY), Charles Schumer (D, NY), and $6,000 to the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association. Madoff also gave generously to Senator Frank Lautenberg (D, NJ) who runs a charitable foundation that invested with Madoff."
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/warner-todd-huston/2008/12/14/media-forgets-wall-street-rip-artist-big-democrat-donor
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TooFarGone
Rioters (no, not "protesters") are taking over TV and radio stations? Europe just gets more and more pathetic. I reckon much of the "turmoil" can be chalked up to the growing and shocking economic inequality within the EU. And as Euro "progressives" from the UK, France and Germany tell us when it is North America in question, this is undoubtedly racist in structure.
Yes, why are the relatively "darker" and outlying regions of Europe - like Portugal, Spain and Greece - discriminated against by their unelected overlords in Brussels? Is it their proximity to Africa and to Albania?
The poor in America and Canada live better than do the majority of the middle class population in countries like Greece.
Europe needs a long hard look in the mirror.
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TooFarGone
In the civilized world, doctors are supposed to heal.
What is it with guys like this, or Al qaeda number 2 - Doctor Ayman al Zwahiri?
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TooFarGone
Predictably, the Left is rushing to defend the shoe-hurling nutjob.The LA Times, with the usual moral inversion, compares him to Joe the Plumber.
"In the few seconds it took Iraqi journalist Muntather Zaidi to wing a pair of shoes at President Bush, the Middle East got its own version of Joe the Plumber.
"Just as Joe Wurzelbacher's gripes to Barack Obama during the U.S. presidential election catapulted him to fame, Zaidi's burst of rage toward Bush during a Baghdad news conference Sunday has made him a household name across the Middle East." http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-shoeman16-2008dec16,0,921081.story
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TooFarGone
Insane. Would any of these people be caught dead wearing Hitler t-shirts? The whole cult of Che Guevara is just wacked. The man was a monster.
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TooFarGone
The big, bad BBC:"The shoes themselves are said to have attracted bids from around the Arab world. According to unconfirmed newspaper reports [at the BBC? Nah, impossible...] , the former coach of the Iraqi national football team, Adnan Hamad, has offered $100,000 (£65,000) for the shoes, while a Saudi citizen has apparently offered $10m (£6.5m)."
10 million bucks? Hilarious. The civilized world is spending its money on education, fighting cancer and heart disease, developing electric cars, exploring space, stem cell research, conflict resolution, etc.
This story is fast becoming one of those rare but authentic exposes of the Arab - Muslim world.
'Liberal' western journos like those at the BBC have again unwittingly exposed how truly backward are a group of 'oppressed' - but ridiculously wealthy - people whose anti-Western cause they hope to champion.
Good work!
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TooFarGone
Iraq is now safer than Mexico.
http://www.strategypage.com/qnd/mexico/articles/20081215.aspx
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TooFarGone
With aim that bad this 'journalist' should be working for the 'Palestinians'. Bwahahaha.
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TooFarGone
Obama is President-elect. Why doesn't he ask the AG to release the transcripts? Where is the "change" ?
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TooFarGone
Who cares what the outoing VP says.
Why no comment from Biden?
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TooFarGone
adaydream:
Will they? The article above says the "turmoil" in Iraq (wouldn't want to highlight the thousand -year blood feud at the center of the 'Religion of Peace now would we...) has resulted in tens of thousands of deaths.
If it is all about mere numbers I would contend the deaths have been offset by the number of lives saved as a result of humanitarian aid the US and allied forces provide and of course by the demise of Saddam Hussein and his Nazi-inspired Baathist regime.
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TooFarGone
Behold the ravages of BDS.
When abroad Bush, like him or not, is the democratically elected representative of the American people. All of us.
Any "Arab" celebrating this boorish ingrate's little shoe-tossing tantrum as a brave act of defiance and "dissent" does so with the conviction that those shoes were basically tossed at all Americans, regardless of who you wanted in 2000 or 04.
But the Left, blinded by their Bush hatred, can't see that.
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TooFarGone
Now that Obama has said he didn't know the guy; that he was just a governor "in my neighborhood"; that he thought the guy had been rehabilitated; that he never personally heard him say such things, I guess we can look forward to all three major networks giving him and his teleprompter an hour of prime time to tell the country that he rejects everything Blago stands for.
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TooFarGone
Why don't Bush's detractors here try tossing a shoe at him next chance possible?
You're not chickenhawks, are you?
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