The brother of Muntadar al-Zaidi says that the journalist has been beaten in custody suffering a broken hand, broken ribs and internal bleeding, as well as an eye injury. In the meantime, al-Zaidi is now an international superstar and there is now even a couple of games for people who want to throw shoes at Bush, including some that appear to teach the physics of shoe throwing.
The reporters older brother, Dargham, told the BBC that the Iraqis have still not given access of lawyers to his brother. If it makes him feel better, Bush denied the same access to detainees for years before being forced to grant basic rights in this country. Finally, Iraq has achieved the American standard of civil liberties.
He may face two years in jail.
Iraqi television is now demanding his release as Iraqis herald his actions against Bush as protesters call for him to be freed. Our billion-dollar-a-Day occupation appears to be securing over more shoes than allies.
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Sally is right. When she says people who don’t support the president ought not to have their human rights respected, she’s right. Courts, lawyers and due process should be reserved for those who agree with Bush. If you don’t like what he’s done in Iraq, you deserve to have your arms and ribs broken. Sally is a true American.
Patty C 1, December 17, 2008 at 5:29 pm
“Sally was only expressing my own view and likely others, as well. ”
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Sally 1, December 17, 2008 at 10:00 am
“Of course they were expressing their opinions and I don’t see a DAMN thing wrong with it. The man deserved the ass kicking”
Patty C 1, December 17, 2008 at 6:43 pm
“Go ‘F’ yourself, BARTELEBEE/CMM/WAYNEBRO
My words are mine – alone.
You are not worth debating. In my view you are an ignorant social and intellectual moron.
I’ll thank you not to address me, further.”
Nice. Real ladylike.
But I didn’t address you.
You addressed me when you walked into a thread and started insulting me and generally slandering me out of the blue, again.
If you don’t like my ‘responses’ to your insults and slander then I suggest you stop insulting, slandering and addressing me.
Thank you very very much Patty!! I am glad I’m not the only one who feels that way about Waynebro!!
It’s very very good to know that!!
I too, see him as a lonely middle aged man with nothing better to do than create strange situations and arguements!!
Go ‘F’ yourself, BARTELEBEE/CMM/WAYNEBRO
My words are mine – alone.
You are not worth debating. In my view you are an ignorant social and intellectual moron.
I’ll thank you not to address me, further.
Patty C 1, December 17, 2008 at 5:29 pm
“Sally was only expressing my own view and likely others, as well. ”
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Sally 1, December 17, 2008 at 10:00 am
“Of course they were expressing their opinions and I don’t see a DAMN thing wrong with it. The man deserved the ass kicking”
Yes.
It is good when our governments imprison and beat us, break our bones, cripple us, for what essentially constitutes an insult in which no one was harmed.
That’s democracy that we can live with.
Starting fires in the hallway,again, etc etc etc
Truly pathetic.
p.s. Bartlebee/Cmm/WayneBro/BARTLEBEE/CMM/WAYNEBRO etc
is Google ‘doesn’t care’, Zipper-head…
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Patty C 1, December 17, 2008 at 5:29 pm
I regard you as a pest – nothing more.
^^^
Once again, as before:
‘Sally was only expressing my own view and likely others, as well.
As much as people may have enjoyed watching the ‘Incoming’ shoe missile aimed at Bush’s head, it was kinda stupid because HE ended up on the ‘wrong end of the stick’, as it were.
Bush deserves our derision, yet, it seems he is never the one to suffer…
… so far… 😉
Stay tuned, Sally.’
Patty C 1, December 17, 2008 at 5:29 pm
“Sally was only expressing my own view and likely others, as well. ”
Sally 1, December 17, 2008 at 10:00 am
“Of course they were expressing their opinions and I don’t see a DAMN thing wrong with it. The man deserved the ass kicking”
I regard you as a pest – nothing more.
Sally was only expressing my own view and likely others, as well.
As much as people may have enjoyed watching the ‘Incoming’ shoe missile aimed at Bush’s head, it was kinda stupid because HE ended up on the ‘wrong end of the stick’, as it were.
Bush deserves our derision, yet, it seems he is never the one to suffer…
… so far… 😉
Stay tuned, Sally.
It might also mean Jill that he’s not capable of “walking” into court, if you know what I mean.
Update on the journalist from Alternet:
“Al Zaida was scheduled to appear in court today for the first hearings of charges against him for this weekend’s shoe toss. But Iraqi officials did not let him appear and his family is very worried about what this means:
The Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at United States President George W. Bush has appeared before a judge in his jail cell because he is too injured to appear in a courtroom, his brother says.
The al-Zaidi family went to Baghdad’s Central Criminal Court expecting to attend a hearing, his brother, Dhargham, said.
He said the family was told that the investigative judge went to see al-Zaidi in jail, and to return in eight days, Associated Press has reported.
“That means my brother was severely beaten and they fear that his appearance could trigger anger at the court,” Dhargham said.
Please take time today to call the White House at 202-456-1111 and the Iraqi Embassy at (202) 742-1600 and Iraqi Consulate office at 202-483-7500 and ask that his safety be protected.”
Patty of course belittles and attacks the person, instead of the persons words or opinions, because to Patty, anyone not of her self professed high and mighty status in life is automatically relegated to the steerage section.
See Patty doesn’t like debate. Patty doesn’t debate. What she does is insult a persons life, background and education while exalting herself to the status of “chat room queen”.
Notice she doesn’t attack my position. She just launches her own diatribe of personal insults and blather about how superior she is.
You two should get a room.
Yea, cheering on the beating of a defenseless prisoner.
There’s something to defend.
Sally, let me clue you in.
Waynebro fancies himself a ‘future-former member of the
‘High School Debate Team’. Problem is, he never made it through
high school. He quit and now proudly holds a GED…
In my experience, the only reason he shows up here is to pester and harass. He has delusions of granduer and that there is a market for his personal ‘debate site’ and he wants to use some of ‘us’ as his hand-picked’judges’-like HE could be in charge of ANYTHING…!!!
In his warped mind, if he can succeed in engaging us ‘turlees’ in dialogue, somehow this elevates his position in ‘The World’.
Observe the baseball cap and the graying beard…
Ignore him. He enjoys ‘lighting fires in hallways’, if you know what I mean.
Believe me when I say, it’s not worth your/our time or aggravation. He’s well know, kiddo, but Jill seems to like him – a LOT…!!!
Just like I see your neocon buzzwords, like using “PETA” as a negative example in your analogies.
Even Bush brushed this incident off, and only the most die hard neoconservative could say this little Nazi Germany era leftover;
Sally 1, December 17, 2008 at 10:00 am
“Of course they were expressing their opinions and I don’t see a DAMN thing wrong with it. The man deserved the ass kicking”
As for “proving myself to you”, I don’t even know you, nor want to know you. What I am doing is addressing your reichstag rants about a man who right now as we are typing, is lying in his own blood for a simple little thing. As I said earlier, Seig Heil Sally. You earned it.
Sally 1, December 17, 2008 at 11:14 am
“Many people are beaten up in prison for things they’ve done. From rapists to murder’s to child molestors, heck even a drug dealer or a habitual DUI offender.
When you go to jail for something that people in the jail find offense with, getting beat up can happen.
Here in Indiana, a man kidnapped, raped, and killed a little 9 yr old girl named Katie”
Right now a man is laying in serious condition, arm broken, ribs broken, face kicked in, because he tossed a shoe at Bush.
And you use a man who raped, kidnapped and killed a 9 year old as a comparison.
You may have Jill buying your “disagreement” concept but not me.
You’re condoning a senseless act of the worst type of brutality there is, that is the brutality of beating a defenseless prisoner, and likening this GOOD MAN, this “JOURNALIST”, with a child molester.
Well he’s not a child molester, and your twist that it was the “other prisoners” who beat him is more horsesh$t. Perhaps you can convince Jill that prisoners being held in an IRAQI PRISON by US Appointed Officials were just sooooooooo broken up that Bush was insulted that they chose to beat one of their fellow inmates, but the rest of us know that it wasn’t the prisoners who beat this guy.
People rotting in US backed Iraqi prisons aren’t exactly Bush fans, so its a good thing Jill believes your horse manure, because I see right through you.
And thank you Bob. I enjoy reading sites that offer views from many different perspectives.