Comments on: Local Blogger Posts Thanks to Shoe-Thrower

By: Anna Mae

Anna Mae — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 04:39:37 +0000

Viva Muntazer al-Zaidi - and Viva Mike for the act of solidarity. I think we need to do more - 1) to ensure al-Zaidi is freed and not punished further, and hopefully honored one day by a sovereign Iraq - and 2) to echo Muntazer's gesture a thousand-fold in the dying days of the Bush regime. Why don't we have a shoe march to the White House or something?

By: Joan Stallard

Joan Stallard — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 02:44:10 +0000

I dispute the 95% data given by Wallace Brand. My sources say 30% were killed by USA and our contractors. That's the best-estimated 1 million Iraqi dead total, or 300,000 Iraqi dead we are responsible for.

By: DC

DC — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 15:30:12 +0000

I am in full agreement that Bush's policies have been a complete and utter failure, the like of which, I hope, will never be seen again.

However, when someone chooses to attack the man instead of his policies and ideas, you lose me. And your message is lost on me.

And I wonder why a shoe was never thrown at the guy who truly created this all. You know, the one in the spider hole. The one who was hung in an unknown location in the dead of night. Perhaps, the shoe-thrower, himself, would not have seen the light of day again.

The shoe was thrown because he now lives a country where the leaders will NOT execute him for the ultimate insult. He threw the shoe from frustration and he threw it because he COULD and live to tell about it.

Thank any of the American boys you see who have lived and died to provide that and the Commander-in-Chief who traded his sure comfort for a slim chance at theirs.

By: artfully wandering

artfully wandering — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 09:11:34 +0000

thank u nic. Ur activism helps further the message that we need to recognize our young men and women soldiers are not the only people suffering, but there are untold numbers of iraqis whose lives have been devastated by this illegal and unjust war. Kudos my fellow ethical american and world citizen!

By: Start Loving

Start Loving — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 02:02:36 +0000

Mr. Brand, they would be alive today these 95% if you idiots had not gone in to steal his oil for Exxon.

Well done Mr. DeBonis and Mr al-Zaidi.

Shame on the rest of us for our silence, and therefore our complicity.

By: Wallace Brand

Wallace Brand — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 23:44:08 +0000

Ninety-five percent or more of the Iraqi civilians killed during the war were killed by other Muslims.