The 51st State

The invasion of Iraq has been a success, the people of Iraq have embodied all that is needed of the American people, the infidel and their ways have won.

How do we know this, because a man threw a shoe at the President and ends up sueing the Iraq police. They may not want to be American, but they certainly know which of the best parts of the American culture to pick up, and compensation culture seems to be one of them.

I do wonder if the same man would have thrown a shoe at Saddam just a few years ago, and if not perhaps he should wonder at the kind of freedom that he now has that allows him to take off his shoes in public and lob them at foreign dignitaries.

I’m not saying that Bush doesn’t deserve a few well placed shoes flying in his direction, but I do think that if this particular Iraqi journalist has any concept of change he should be walking around remembering that just a little while ago with a different leader in place he would now be hanging from a piano wire and most of his family would be beside him.

Comments

[Tim the Enchanter]

You make a reasonable point here!