Bush's "icy smile" enraged Iraq shoe-thrower

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Originally posted in LBN by Now Tense


Bush's "icy smile" enraged Iraq shoe-thrower

Source: Reuters

BAGHDAD, Feb. 19, 2009 (Reuters) — An Iraqi reporter who hurled his shoes at George W. Bush said in the past he had videotaped himself practicing the Arab insult to use against the president whose "icy smile" had filled him with uncontrollable rage.

Muntazer al-Zaidi said on Thursday at the start of his trial in Baghdad on charges of assaulting a foreign leader that he took a recording of his shoe-throwing training two years ago and had hoped to accost Bush in Jordan but this did not take place.

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Instead, he said Bush's smile as he talked about achievements in Iraq had made him think of "the killing of more than a million Iraqis, the disrespect for the sanctity of the mosques and houses, the rapes of women," and enraged him.

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre51i1ey-us-iraq-shoe/

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1. "That was no smile, that was a smirk. Smirk." - xCommander AWOL (R)

"The smirk is the facial expression peculiar to us Connecticut Yankee preppy cheerleader Chickenhawk Republicons who pretend to be Texas cowboy war heroes. As the Evil Shoe Terrarist correctly notes, my smirk just absolutely reeks of insincerity. Smirk."

- xCommander AWOL (R)

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2. '...let's write off Iraq with a farewell meal. Smirk' - xCommander AWOL (R)

From the article:

"He was talking and at the same time smiling icily at the (Iraqi) prime minister. He said to the prime minister that he was going to have dinner with him," Zaidi told a three-judge panel, a small army of 25 defense lawyers lined up next to him.

"Suddenly I saw no one in the room but Bush. I felt the blood of innocents was running under his feet while he was smiling coldly as if he had come to write off Iraq with a farewell meal."

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