'Throw shoes at Bush' games appear online
THROWING SHOES at US President George W. Bush has suddenly become a very popular online game. Or games, actually, because at least two have turned up on the Internet so far.
Iraqi journalist Muntadar al-Zeidi punctuated a press briefing in Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone by throwing his shoes at US President George W. Bush last Sunday, December 14th. Bush successfully ducked the flying footwear, but the moment was captured on video.
Facing the soles of your shoes toward anyone's face, striking them with your shoe soles, or throwing your shoes at them are considered to be grave insults in Arabic cultures. All Arabs regard streets and, by extension, shoe soles as unclean, and view being struck by shoe soles as a form of extreme disrespect. Iraqi al-Zeidi's action was thus an act of outraged protest.
He shouted at Bush, "Here is the farewell kiss you DOG! This is from Widows and Orphans and those killed in Irag! YOU are responsible for the Deaths of THOUSANDS of Iraqis!"
He was right. He was also the first person to confront that strutting, smirking little man, to hold him accountable for his cruel, unnecessary and brutal war of choice against Iraq.
Mr al-Zeidi was immediately tackled by security men and dragged out of the room. The next day, thousands of Iraqis took to the streets to demand al-Zeidi's release. On Tuesday, it was reported that al-Zeidi was "badly beaten in custody," and later reports revealed that he was hospitalised with broken ribs and a broken arm.
Hundreds of attorneys, including some from the US, have offered to defend him without charge.
Online games that enable you to launch virtual shoes at the head of President Bush have become wildly popular literally overnight.
One is called Sock and Awe in a takeoff on the US "Shock and Awe" campaign that kicked off the invasion of Iraq, but the website is now apparently overwhelmed by the crush of visitors. Before it crashed it reportedly had accumulated over 1.4 million hits.
Another website that lets you throw shoes at GW Bush appears to be based in Norway and had recorded over 2.69 million 'hits' on its dodging and weaving Dubya when we viewed it.
There's also an online campaign that's urging people to send all their old shoes to Bush. µ
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World of Warcraft version:
http://vnmedia.ign.com/vault.ign.com/dropbox/General%20Images/wowshoe.jpg
Skip the Bush-bashing, moron. Under the old regime, that guy would have been shot in the head and tossed in a ditch by sunset.
Of course had the left Saddam in power everybody would be living happily ever after.
HB
@J-Rod:
Yup, he wouldn't even make it that far to actualy throw a shoe. But his family would be alive now - wouldn't they?
Well, I for one enjoyed the article & it even had a proper IT connection with the online shoe throwing games.
Those that wish to pretend like George Bush was a good president and that the war in Iraq some worthwhile cause are simply in the minority. And in a democracy, it's the majority that rule.
Sure, the world won't miss Sadam. And in Sadam's Iraq I'm sure protesters that offended him did indeed meet a quick and deadly fate. So what? Doesn't make our (I'm midwest USA) war with Iraq justified.
Bush will go down in history as the worst president in 100 years. As a country we may never fully recover from his (mis)leadership.
We sit over here - warm houses, electricity always on, no threat of kidnappings, beheadings, a bomb blowing us up when next we go shopping -and argue the fine points of the war in Iraq. The blood of 100,000 (Study by the Lanclet - a respected medical journal) Iraqi's - most women and children - are on Bush's hands. We run secret prisons, we torture those same prisoners. Our Vice President defends the use of torture.
So Bush had a pair of shoes thrown at him? Maybe he should stay home.
Go, Iron Man, go!!
"And in a democracy, it's the majority that rule."
You shouldn't have ditched that Civic's class. You might have known that The US is a republic.
Footwear of Mass Destruction. :D
"You shouldn't have ditched that Civic's class." And maybe you shouldn't have ditched that English class. You might have known that 'civics' does not need an apostrophe.
I was on The Motley Fool's Political Asylum board and everyone was discussing the shoeing. Someone said let's send some shoes to Bush. Some promotional videos were posted and a temporary site was made, then it was replaced by sendashoe.com then it was replaced by sockandawe.com, and then there are sites popping up all over. I think the shoes should all go to a storage site and then delivered all at once to the Whitehouse. Of coures they are not going to accept them, but the shoes could then go to charity. It would too cool to ship them to Iraqi's who need shoes badly, but I dont see that being financialy feasable.
Another one from one of the most accessed humor sites in Brazil:
http://charges.uol.com.br/game_ver.php?game_pk=37
I prefer the one I came up with: dress as a Secret Service MIB Agent, and right before some live televised speech steal Bush's shoes from his feet, and throw them across the WH lawn (in opposite directions - that way he has to go get them really obviously).
It's not that it was censored from your TV screens - oh no, it was that it actually occurred only in the aethers. Some months ago.
This is an awesome throw shoes at Bush game, www.shoerampage.com.
This is a clear sign that we should bring Saddam back to power!
Everybuddy lets vote in free election!
(You may scoff at my idea that Saddam is dead, but can you really kill the dream? Really?)
When asked to comment about the incident. Bush told that it was a size 10. With a big smile on his face. I found that part to be speechless.
"And in a democracy, it's the majority that rule." You shouldn't have ditched that Civic's class. You might have known that The US is a republic."
The USA is both, sorry. In both a democracy and a republic,, supreme authority rests with those individuals entitled to vote. The fact that in a republic that "representatives" are chosen by the voters to excercise that authority (by making laws) does not mean that the state is no longer a democracy. In both cases it is a goverment "by the people" and therefore a democracy.
I said things in my original post that certainly could be argued. Even at his lowest approval rating Bush still had almost 30% of people that approved of the job he was doing. The comment of "not a democracy but a republic" is not only wrong, but silly and trivial...
I still enjoyed the article, I had fun with the game (it's harder than it looks, I did no better than 5 hits) and I even appreciated Bush being a good sport about it. To his credit he has always displayed good humor.
The Prime Minister of Iraq has his own private militia.....not much difference between the old and the new.
Other than invade immorally and illegaly their country, rape and torture young children to obtain information from parents, bomb the place back to the stone age, kill countless of innocent people, set up a puppet gouvernment that catters to the wims of American corporations, illegaly use mercenariers he calls contractors.....Bush did nothing to deserve having shoes thrown at him.
But then, Americans talk about liberty, and they only took the liberties with the native Indians of that land. Like the Jews of Israel, they are all on borrowed time... look, you can't just steal someone's property and pretend everything is going to be alright. Criminals must be bought to justice and pay for their crimes/sins etc.... Go back to your bible, remember the eye for an eye bull. well put that to action... You lot over killed the numbers to your 3 thousand in Iraq/Afghan. This is no different, America who think of themself as some council of the World and some peacemaker rush into Iraq and can't do a thing about Sudan or Zimbabwe, maybe because there's no oil or any other money to be made in Africa... come on, why this injustice? Cholera has killed over a thousand people in Zimbabwe. All it takes is 1 or max. a few bombs from the air, after all Mugabe, that retard, did call on the west and dared them to attack - saying he is ready........ All we'll ever get is hot air (fart) from the west while people are dying! I saw that guy batman (cooleny) try to talk to the U.N. The U.N is nothing but the U.S really, whatever they say goes. Have you heard the jokes Putin was making about Georgia and how Bush lied so it's o.k for them to do something similar? The U.S is teaching the other retarded people how to behave.
If you (America) want to be respected as the world council or some kind of judge then act like one otherwise leave people to their own problems... The aid that will be needed by 2009 - according to the aid agencies (BBC) to feed the country..., it'll be much cheaper to drop a few bombs before it gets to that stage, come on, it's only logical, then Mugabie will know they are serious.
Bye.
Jon.
I think the fact that us Americans can now call Bush a dog and throw our shoes at him totally justifies the Iraq war. Could we really do this without the war?
customizable so that we can virtually throw virtual shoes at virtually anybody, even our fave lefty Inq haq[s] or haquette[s].
Did he deserve it........? It depends; if he knows the regime he's supporting ('babylon') is evil corrupt and wrong - but inexplicably is ok being a frontman for it, then yes.
And don't start any of that 'but Saddam was evil blah blah blah' - it's not about that; if he was, the CIA put him in charge of Iraq to begin with! That whole thing is what 'Babylon' is. The same one corrupt evil that plays all sides, but can only do so if people join in with it.
I don't know if people are really aware or not that the systems they choose to be part of are corrupt.
Fact: if all the bad stuff assigned to Saddam is true it still doesn't make him any worse than the US regime (and the rest). The part that is of concern, because that is so very obvious, is: do those playing that 'game' know that it is by no means a game at all to be involved in such things. Do they understand how serious it is, or are they hebrephenic loons made mad by the secret societies that control them and put them on their lifepaths from their first breath? Is Bush exorcising a deep-seated basic stupidity festering away in many a US psyche, catalysing all the demons out in two terms, or is he just a manipulated person who drank too much to get away from being manipulated - only to then give it up, etc, which is why he probably got suckered back into that 'game' via the church or some such [ahrimanic / archon / 4D parasites]?
Why didn't you sign Kyoto George, you must have known you should have done that - in all circumstances.
The only real enemy there is, wishes the truth about how reality works to remain unknown - that is how it hides, and manipulates.
Divide and conquer a country, steal it's wealth, get fat and die in charge.
In order to make the war legal you need a legal-ish reason. Then you send your soldiers over there to make it happen. Who cares how many of the foreigners die, so long as you can paint your guys as brave hero's.
Secure the wealth you went after, in this case it's 2nd richest oil state in the world. When was the last time you heard of problems getting the oil out of Iraq?
To continue stealing the wealth of the invaded country and keep your own population happy, you cannot leave a large force of your own soldiers there indefinitely. So you need to destablise the country along any lines available, there is usually some sort of divide. Get these factions fighting each other, help them kill as much of each other as possible so that it's easier to control them.
Strike deals with these guys, you will give them guns and they will give you the oil. Your guys can go home.
You leave your control group to keep a close eye on things, prevent anyone rejoining the country, keep it all going to plan.
Iraq is going exactly to plan. It's a divided, destroyed, weakened wreck of a country. And it's exactly how they wanted it.
Iraq is now too messed up for the people to come together and organise themselves so that the oil is not stolen from them. Also, they cannot come together to push for a war crimes charge against Bush and Blair.
Recent reports say 300,000 Iraqi innocent children and women have been killed. Still, at least Bush got the Oil for his friends.
/n The Inquirer - please fix the newline formatting in comments. How did this go live? What tools did the testing?
I thought this only happen in Taiwan, well may be not. We had bananas in Hong Kong, shoes were very common in Taiwan. Now it is in Iraq also, at Bush, ha. I think there is a phone game on throwing shoe at Bush, also.
see also www.eslahat2008.parsiblog.com
The online campaign is encouraging people top send their shoes to Bush by Express, not the traditional slower means of shipment. This approach more accurately emulates the actions of the said journalist.
another version of the a href="http://flipflop.altervista.org/shoe-game/" bush shoe game /a
there's this video of the incident synched to a lily allen song that i think is pretty pertinent, and also pretty funny: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0mJdYbP4Hw