..."it's probably the majority view..." How the hell do you know what the majority view in Iraq is, Mr. Kaplow? More of that cavalier "oh go ahead and print it, no one likes Bush" Dan Rather thinking, eh? How do you people get any sleep at night. How do you live with your stinking selves? And who the hell do the Iraquis think THEY are, after invading Kuwait?? President Bush is the only one whoever cared about their sorry butts and he wants to fling shoes at the man! Hah. Go ahead you loonie attention seeking odd little man! On the other hand, three years is way harsh, and President Bush would probably say that as well. THREE YEARS for throwing his poor smelly shoes????

What a hoot! We've all seen the film of the incident and that Al-Maliki didn't make any kind of move to protect George Bush. He stood still like a deer caught in the headlights of on unrushing car. Your coverage of the Iraq war continues to be biased and most readers recognize that fact. Pitiful...

good points...I think that while his actions should be punished, we can't fully understand what it's like to have over a hundred thousand of our citizens dead, and then have Bush come in, while attacks are STILL happening, and watch him claim that things are great. We can look at what happened from over here and say that he was way out of line. But put yourself in his shoes (haha). al-Zeidi needs to understand that it's now legal for him to protest - something that would have NEVER happened under Baath rule - his time and place were just WAY off. But lets be serious - how many of you wouldn't mind throwing a shoe or two or a kitchen sink at George Bush???

If so many Iraqi's wanted to do what al-Zeidi did, they never would have voted in elections and their country never would be where it is today. Businesses who never would have opened under Saddam are opened and thriving. Total villages aren't being destroy and completely wiped off the face of the earth because of Saddam. Supporters of al-Zeidi aren't in the majority, their a minority. Our troops never could have stayed one day in Iraq if a majority of Iraqi's felt like al-Zeidi did. Al-Zeidi is not Iraq. He's what is left over from the Saddam era.

If it were not for Bush, he would not have even been afforded the opportunity to hate. Husein was not interested in reporters or differing opinions. Additionally, his head would have been chopped off before he could have gotten the other shoe off. This man was an idiot and now must pay the consequences, which lucky for him, was determined in an actual court.

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The shoe thrower got a thrashing and has spent enough time in jail already. This is enough punishment for his prank against Bush. The latter's crime against humanity and violation of human rights and the US Constitution has not been, and most likely will not be tried for his crimes. Yet the shoe thrower has been given a stiff sentence for his deed, Bush on the other hand, got away scot-free for his. What kind of justice is this?

I think the sentence does not fit the crime. However, I'm thinking as an American not an Iraqi where the bottoms of people shoes convey a serious message to them. I guess in the end its ironic because as so many american wished to do the same to Bush, in the end it is conveying due process which he would not have recieved under Sadaam. So the final thought is I think as an adult he should have known that there would be consequences to his actions.

Americana says that if someone had heaved a pie at lizzie 2 while she was standing next to the president , said person would have spent a good long time in the pokey. But not if the Queen asked the [president to pardon or commute.. Could Georgy Porgy show such magnamity? How differently we might percieve him if he did!

Should have thrown both shoes, at Bush, just for being Stupid.

If Bush weren't stupid, he waould have bombed Iraq back to the stone age and flew away. smiling.

We should leave those "crazy" Arabs alone, let Them kill each other, No visas for any of Them to "visit" the West (with very few exceptions). Then We, with the help of the Israel intelligence, get whatever is needed on them as far as Nuclear armement sites are concerned & monitor/verify them as if "searching a needle in a haystack" inspections. Inspections of any suspected site(s) denied, then bomb the site(s), wipe it/them out using Our stealth aviation assets.

As far as leaving Iraq, OK ! but  keep a very large number of Our troups on Iraq's borders to avoid infiltrations of Iranian elements, Syrian and the likes ...

Yea, they had it BETTER with the psychotic murderer Saddam,,,

and his mass murderer an rapist sons... Uday and Poontang.

Zeidi later told the court that he couldn't bear listening to Bush claim success in Iraq while all the reporter could think of was the monumental human loss and suffering of the last six years. He said he viewed Bush as an occupier. Iraqis and other Arabs have hailed him as a national hero. It's probably the majority view, but there's a nuance, too.

I'll assume the shoe thrower was one of those who were on Sadam's good side, hence his anger at Bush would be understandable.  If not then he needs to look in the miror and take responsibility for the mess that Iraq became.  Those who supported the removal of Sadam needed to step up and put their lives on the line to stop the insurgency at its very beginning.  If this is truely how the majority of Iraqies feel, they can go to hell.

I think it's hilarious that the journalist and others in Iraq are upset about the sentence he received. Let him go to a Saddam press conference and hurl a shoe in protest. I'll bet the treatment would have been a little different back then.

Take the freedom we have provided them and throw a shoe back at us for it. Brilliant.

I told you this war was a bad idea. The Iraqi people are nothing more than a group of leeches.

I would not be surprised if those who support putting that journalist in prison are probably the same people who think Bush is a good guy and don't want our soldiers to leave their country.

so much for being welcomed as liberators

writer does not mentioned that prior to the rockets Israel imposed 18 months of blockade of medicine, foods and financial strangulation on the 1.5 million Palestinians. Not to mentioned the contimuing assassination of their leaders and innocent civilians among them. The rockets is a form of resistant against Israel occupation!!!

Oldcommo is 100% correct.

Where is the Newsweek or MSNBC story about Michelle and Barack going out of their way to insult the British people last week?  Oh yeah they're too busy running stories about how Rush Limbaugh is the king of conservatives and stupid crap like this storry right here.  Australia, Canada, Sweden, UK, probably every major country are running stories about how shabbily Brown was treated on his visit to the White House except the US media.  Hmm I wonder why.  Oh yeah because 90 percent of whats wrong with our country is our crap, biased media that's as corrupt and complicit as our politicians.

The decision should not be appealed or commuted simply because it's getting close to election time.  

He did just do what most Iraqis whated to do but also what most Americans what to do. But Iraqis are in control of Iraq it's there decision.

I spent 6 months as an advisor to the Provincial Police Chief in Al Anbar. You have to understand the significance that shoes, especially the bottom of the shoe, have in Iraqi society. A good analogy would be: what would the U.S. do if someone threw a pile of dog crap (roughly equal to a shoe to an Iraqi) on Ahmendinijad (a reviled foreign leader) when he was in New York City? I think the sentence is just, and the Iraqis I keep in touch with agree.

The man is a hero. He did what everyone wanted to do!

Will somebody please put another dictator of Saddam Hussein's caliber back in charge of Iraq. That's what they want, that's what they deserve, that's all they can handle. Then get us the heck out of there and let everyone there kill muslims in the name of Allah. What ego we have thinking we can actually help them evolve to live past puberty.

As Ayn Rand once said "Who is John Galt?" Lake Tahoe? Your ringing denunciation of Israeli war crimes rings a bit hollow!! How about Arab crimes in the Mid East? Crimes against Christians, Jews, and other Moslems? My strong suggestion is for you to innocently camp out in a field about 20 miles south of Ashkelon and receive incoming random missiles and explosives from your beloved innocents in Gaza. You should be well within their range. If rockets from Baja California started to fall near San Diego with anything near the regularity that Hamas stuff rains down on Israelis, we would occupy and probably depopulate a swath of Mexico at least 150 miles south of our border, and you would be one of the first to cheer the operation.  We already fought one war of aggression with them with far less provocation. Are you suggesting that the U. S. give back California because of our past misdeeds?

Torturing a fool like Zeidi does no one any good. No one was actually injured by his idiocy and no one was seriously endangered. A fine example and deterrent would be to fine him $10,000.00 for gross disturbance of the peace and the costs he generated that accrued to the Iraqi government. That should go a long way to prevent a repeat performance or an attempt by others to copy this.

He won't be throwing shoes for awhile so he'll have time to pull his head out of his ***.

Americana, have you ever heard of Godwin's Law?  

It states the following:  "As a discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one."

As the first person to make an unwarranted reference to Nazi's, you automatically lose all credibility.  

Congratulations!

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The man did what I would have done had I met him, he insulted him. It's not like he was trying to hurt him with a shoe for God's sake.  It's like if Bush walked up to me a tried to shake my hand I would turn away and say no thank you. Maybe that insults him but he certainly isn't hurt. The Iraqi government should give him a break. His family needs him.

Three years is ridiculous.  Protesters who custard pie officials in this country barely get a few weeks, and military and contractors who do much worse walk or serve about the same as the shoe thrower. Often less as far as I can tell.

Whoa, what a ringing endorsement!

"Some" even support the sentence?

"Some" even approved of Dubya in the USA as he faded from sight.

Any bad idea can always find "some" support.