Comments on: On throwing shoes at President Bush

By: clarencem

clarencem — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 19:31:20 +0000

As much if not more people have died after Bush’s invasion/war of liberation (whatever be your political leaning) of Iraq. isn’t it telling that there is no nearest estimate of how many Iraqis have died while there is a precise estimate of the US dead — neatly divided into combatants, non-combatants etc.

There is the support of the invasion/WoL and the resistance.

Both, those in power as well as those opposing it have developed a symbiotic relationship. Those opposing power place irrational and infinite demands and the those in power use the realist arguments to say “well, we live in a real world and we have to be realistic”. This is the problem of the left. They need to start making strategically selected, precise, and finite demands. Then those in power cannot make excuses such as those made by Bush and yourself.

By: The Rational Fool

The Rational Fool — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 05:34:47 +0000

NK,
Sycophancy does not surprise me, either, but generally speaking, it’s easier to deal with in democracy than in totalitarianism

By: Nanda Kishore

Nanda Kishore — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 01:09:21 +0000

With all due respect, this is an unnecessary cheap shot. Oh yeah, there may be a small matter of a million deaths, but hey, they have democracy! What an ungrateful wretch.

What a fall for liberal American values – they have to be held up as beacons against dictators they bring down (or prop up). There’s no need to lionise the Bushies’ brand of liberation just because the Islamists are cheering.

Rational Fool, what of the sophisticated, nuanced American press that did not ask inconvenient questions? They were not infantile, for sure. They knew what they were doing.

By: The Rational Fool

The Rational Fool — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 20:01:46 +0000

It doesn’t come as a surprise to me that infant democracies may harbor infantile journalists.

By: Sud

Sud — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 17:21:09 +0000

Allowing close access and proximity to national and international political leaders is a privilege bestowed upon journalists which they would be ill-advised to throw away. All manner of rogues, thugs and dictators will now use this incident as an excuse to not have to meet the press at all, expcet on their terms and all that. Imagine how much better Hu Jintao can now be shielded from those pesky reporters, as if his ilk needed any more excuses.

By: rishi

rishi — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 09:10:06 +0000

Bush did not transform the USA into a liberal democracy. This happened over hundreds of years.

He again will not transform Iraq into a liberal democracy. If the journalist threw these shoes at an Islamic cleric instead of Bush, he would be dead.

The credit for this goes not to Bush, but to the liberal democracy that the USA built, and all that it entails.

By: Oldtimer

Oldtimer — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 05:44:25 +0000

>>The sole might have been size 10. But the man who wore it was size zero.

Ten out of ten for putting it so well.

By: Balaji

Balaji — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 05:26:40 +0000

yep. and the people especially Indians who rejoiced at this cowardice are probably size minus 1.