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YGfamily


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this might be old news, but i had no idea what this man went through until reading the article
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Iraqi man, al Zaida, who is responsible for the famous shoe throwing at Bush was released early because of an appeal in April. Since December of last year he was imprisoned. al Zaida's brother claims that al Zaida is going to Greexe for treatments of the wounds he got in prison. Aal Zaida claims that he was "beaten with cables and pipes and torutres with electricity immediately after guards removed him from a new conference room" which was the room Bush was giving his speech.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/09/15/iraq.shoe.thrower/index.html

There was a question  in the middle of the article of from the original article that i was wondering about too:
"Was a jail sentence too harsh a punishment?"

i mean think about it, when i heard ; back when this incident happened, that this man threw a shoe at Bush, i thought it was hilarious. i thought he would just get a small talk saying how what he did was innapropriate, you know, slap on the wrist, but imprisoned? -_- i personally think it's going a little too overboard. being imprisoned is one thing but being tortured and needing to get treatment because he was beaten that bad? i can say it sounds pretty ridiculous. [by the way, it is also said that he was totured while the conference was still going on]

what are your thoughts?

-- Edited by YGfamily on Friday 25th of September 2009 06:31:32 PM

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I think he was released way to early ok it was a shoe but it was an attack on the president!


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im not surprised he got tortured, they are pretty gruesome in the middle east. but at the same time it kind of does surprise me because they dont like bush too much in the middle east so i imagined that would maybe give him some sort of award or something haha.

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Well if he didn't want to get tortured he shouldn't have thrown the shoe... but he did. He also should have realized what country he is in and what they do to people like him. In the middle east there isn't a Bill of Rights so he really brought this upon himself.

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No it was not too harsh of a punishment. Even if it was only a shoe, it was still an attack on our president. Anyone who attacks our president will always be severely punished. Also, in their culture, throwing your shoe at someone is like the ultimate insult. So not only was he trying to hurt Bush, he was insulting him too, in the worst way he knew how.

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The punishment was way too harsh and it is extremly unacceptable that he got tortured. I can understand why he threw the shoe and you also have to understand what it represants in the middle eastern culture throwing a shoe or putting your foot in somebody elses face means that you have extreme hate for that person and they are the scum of the earth or the dirt of the earth and you have no respect for that person and when i first heard of this story i thought it was the funnist thing.

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he could just be lying about him being tortured you never know but if he was i think thats just how prison is unless he was tortured by the guards

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So what if he got tortured in prison he assaulted the President he should have been shot on the spot and he should think he's lucky he wasn't.

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He spoke his mind, thats all he needed to do, but throwing anything at a president or leader is still considered an attack and they will treat it as such. 

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I think he deserves it because he attacked the President!
Were talking about the president here.

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he attacked the leader of the free world. he should of never of been realsed in the first place to even say that he was tortured, but even still put him back in jail and let him rot in jail for being immature and throwin his shoe. u can not attack the president of the US, that was his first mistake. i agree with matt he should be lucky he wasnt shot down on the scene

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Yea, he should be locked up for life. And i agree with those above me, he is lucky he wasn't immediately shot.

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Yea that guy head the nerve to throw the shoe and miss, think what they would have done to him if it hit.

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When I first heard about the shoe throwing incident I thought thats brilliant. This guy had alot of guts to actually do it. Too bad he missed. I know that people should respect the president but this is an exception. Bush is a shame to this country. From faith based initiatives to weapons of mass destruction (deception) to the "war on terror" he has done things that shouldn't have ever been done. The shoe thrower should not have been imprisoned or totured.

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