OK, not exactly, but I’m hoping Andy McCarthy won’t read past the post title because The Ingrates are acting up again:
Followers of a Shiite cleric on Friday stomped on and burned an effigy of President George W. Bush in the same central Baghdad square where Iraqis beat a toppled statue of Saddam Hussein with their sandals five years earlier.
Chanting and waving flags, thousands of Muqtada al-Sadr‘s followers filled Firdous Square to protest a proposed U.S.-Iraqi security pact that would allow American troops to stay for three more years. The Bush effigy was placed on the same pedestal where U.S. Marines toppled the ousted dictator’s statue in one of the iconic images of the 2003 U.S.-led invasion.
After a mass prayer, demonstrators pelted the effigy with plastic water bottles and sandals. One man hit it in the face with his sandal. The effigy fell head first into the crowd and protesters jumped on it before setting it ablaze.
Before it fell, the effigy held a sign that said: “The security agreement … shame and humiliation.”
The nerve of some people.
November 21, 2008 at 10:45 am
Sandal beatings!
November 21, 2008 at 11:45 am
Do you need any more proof that there’s terrorists in Iraq?
November 21, 2008 at 11:47 am
When are they going to get around to naming that central square after Bush?
November 21, 2008 at 11:55 am
I don’t understand — where are all the people telling the Iraqis in a clear, loud voice “BUT YOU WILL ADMIT THAT THE SURGE IS WORKING!!!”?
It seems to have worked here. Shouldn’t it work there too?
November 21, 2008 at 12:30 pm
Weren’t we assured at one point that the square where the US-staged event of Saddam’s statue being pulled down was held would soon be renamed in honor of George W. Bush, along with the grand tree-lined avenues, beautiful parks, and other magnificent public works that would come on the heels of his plan to spread freedom and democracy in the Middle East? Can someone remind me when all that is supposed to happen, or are the people of Iraq really the horrible ingrates that the right is painting them to be?
November 21, 2008 at 12:35 pm
Can someone remind me when all that is supposed to happen, or are the people of Iraq really the horrible ingrates that the right is painting them to be?
It has happened, is happening and will continue happening in perpetuity.
Same concept as us winning.
November 21, 2008 at 12:57 pm
More sandals!
(Sandals are the cowbell of Iraqi liberal fascism.)
November 21, 2008 at 2:03 pm
Was the toppling of the Saddam statue really iconic? I mean, even at the time you could see right through the phoniness of it. Does anyone fondly recall this event, or even recall it at all? Is there anything about this war that could be referred to as iconic that isn’t reprehensible?
November 21, 2008 at 2:08 pm
the same pedestal where U.S. Marines toppled the ousted dictator’s statue in one of the iconic images of the 2003 U.S.-led invasion.
Wasn’t that the one they initially tried to sell as “a HUGE crowd of Iraqis destroyed Saddam’s statue” until pictures surfaced showing a small crowd assisted by US troops with a tank or something?
Yeah, that image definitely said it all about the Iraq war. “Iconic” is an apt description in this case.
November 21, 2008 at 2:45 pm
Sandals are the cowbell of Iraqi liberal fascism
heh.
November 21, 2008 at 3:08 pm
maybe something like that should be called ‘eirkonic’ or ‘eikronic’, cuz it is both “ironic” and “iconic” at the exact same time; and putting a more Greekish spelling on it just because.
November 21, 2008 at 3:09 pm
aikronikos
November 21, 2008 at 5:03 pm
To be a 21st century Iraqi is to rephrase the old chestnut about bastards:
“Saddam was a bastard, but at least he was OUR bastard.”
November 21, 2008 at 6:53 pm
When is Bush gonna make his open-air limousine victory parade down Main St Baghdad?
November 21, 2008 at 8:50 pm
Michael Ware nailing that blond was iconic.
November 21, 2008 at 9:47 pm
“When is Bush gonna make his open-air limousine victory parade down Main St Baghdad?”
As soon as they get enough floorboard armor-plating installed.
November 21, 2008 at 9:58 pm
I love free speech…
November 21, 2008 at 11:52 pm
Sandals are the sabots of Iraqi liberal fascism.
November 22, 2008 at 9:32 am
The of the ages and sabots of a new age.
Sabots are also known as clogs, whence this double pun score bonus:
“It is said that powered looms could be damaged by angry or disgruntled workers throwing their wooden shoes or clogs (known in French as sabots, hence the term Sabotage) into the machinery, effectively clogging the machinery.”
So much footwear to choose from, eh?
Croc
November 22, 2008 at 9:33 am
(oops)… croc beatings! Woo-hoo!
November 24, 2008 at 10:29 pm
I’m disappointed I wasn’t invited to that party.