I couldn’t stop laughing for almost a half hour yesterday when I saw the “Shoe throwing” video in which an Egyptian “Reporter” threw a shoe at President Bush in a surprise press conference held in Bagdad. I thought President Bush was a perfect example of American flexibility and agility as he deftly avoided the well aimed throw. According to CNN, there are many who have made the shoe throwing “Reporter” a hero, calling for his immediate release. It got me to thinking about what the fate of that “Reporter” should be.
I’m fairly certain a person in the U.S. hurling a shoe thusly at another person in the U.S. in front of a Police officer, could be held on felony assault, a charge carrying a potential sentence of a few years in the joint. Of course the maximum charge and sentence would likely not be used in the case of such an incident happening between two private citizens. I suspect that if such an event were to take place at the U.N., with a U.S. reporter hurling a shoe at any foreign leader creating a international incident, we would likely prosecute that reporter to the full extent of the law.
Unfortunately, with radical elements stirring sentiment to protest the holding of this man(much like the protesting of certain Danish cartoons), letting the law prevail may come with consequences for President Al Maliki. What do you think? What should happen, and what will happen?

What should happen is that h be charged just like any other person doing the same to any other person.. Nothing special here..

What will happen is he will be let go and made a hero to some.. A curiosity to others..

What you're saying is you'd like Big Government to intervene and micromanage this particular case, instead of letting it run its course in the supposedly autonomous Iraqi system?

I am glad to see that the Presidential Ninja Training that was put in place after St. Reagan was shot works though..

had bush been hit and be in a coma, it would be a different story today

Jabo is right. It's the Iraqi version of giving somebody the finger, maybe while relieving oneself on that person's picture. Or something like that. Somebody throwing his shoes and somebody shooting a person, are somewhat different things.

Anybody who thinks these are indistinguishable, should try both and report back.

I say we should leave this matter to the Iraqis to handle as they see fit. We're supposed to be "nation building" and undermining the authority of what should be a sovereign democracy doesn't help that goal. This was obviously an insult and not a threat, so national security is a hollow excuse.

I just heard that the Secret Service agents on duty at the time have been sent to Boot Camp..

Originally Posted by Feydakin

I just heard that the Secret Service agents on duty at the time have been sent to Boot Camp..

I was thinking the same thing. Had it been a gun and not a shoe, Bush would be dead right now. Asleep at the switch they were. I also agree with Learning Noob in that we should be staying out of the way on this. Apparently, the Iraqis in the room would have beat the man to death if not for the intervention of U.S. secret service. Its pretty cool that a goodly percentage of Iraqis view George W. Bush as a national hero. You have to bring in a terrorist loving Egyptian "Reporter" to get the kind of idiocy you are seeing.

For those of you who dont know the background on this "Reporter", his whole agency was started in 2005, and he is a co-founder. His agencies stated agenda is to tell the story of how the U.S. destroyed Iraq and ruined the plight of the Iraqi people, portraying the U.S. as occupiers and Iran as liberators. So much for journalistic integrity. More like a propaganda arm of Al Queda and Iran.

I heard someone is paying 10 million bucks for that shoe? looooool