Post by priyap09 on Dec 19, 2008 23:18:11 GMT -5
Terry Mosher (Aislin), The Montreal Gazette, 12/18/08
While standing beside Nouri al Malik, President Bush gets not one, but two shoes thrown at him in a press conference from an angry reporter, Muntadhar al-Zaidi. However, his impressive reflexes helped him dodge both attempts. The shoe is labeled as a weapon of mass destruction to mock the fallacious basis on which the war began. The war had commenced when Iraq’s presumed possession of weapons of mass destruction was claimed to pose a serious threat against the security of the United States. However, extensive research through control of Iraq proved this theory incorrect. The United Nations and U.S. funded group, Iraq Survey Group, found no evidence of weapons of mass destruction and concluded that the WMD program had ended in 1991. The incident harms President Bush’s dignity, expresses how the Iraqi’s view him with utter disgrace and displays how the war led many to oppose the Bush Administration and view him with contempt and ridicule.
Bush deserved the tossing of shoes because his actions and decisions have created a chaos in Iraq and United States. The conflict in Iraq has no visible end or aim as the Bush administration withholds the truth of the war’s purpose. The war has resulted in deaths of thousands of Iraqi and American citizens whose families remain shattered. We cannot find weapons of mass destruction, yet we are now fighting to establish a government. We cannot instill democracy on a country with different views, yet we are still trying. We cannot win the war, yet we are still fighting. This incident could also be symbolic of how the Iraqi knocked down Sadaam Hussein’s statue and threw shoes at it when they wanted him out of office, just like what they are doing to Bush.
