Reaction Article #11

Bush attacked with shoe in Baghdad visit

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According to Jennifer Loven in “Bush attacked with shoe in Baghdad visit,” President Bush was attacked while he was having a joint press conference in Iraq on Sunday. The protester hurled two shoes at him and shouted loudly. However, Bush ducked, and avoided the kiss of the shoe.

In my opinion, to attack someone with shoe is extremely impolite. He should not do something like that even though he was really angry. It was good for him to express his opinion in public, but it was better to express it in peace. In Arab culture, throwing shoes at someone is considered an insult. But, in some opinion, that guy is regarded as a brave man since lot of people do not agree with Bush’s policy in Iraq.

In 2003, the U.S. troops invaded Iraq because citing intelligence claimed that it hided many weapons and it might cause a big destruction. Actually, the weapons were never found. What we see is that more than 4209 members of U.S. military were sacrificed in the war. Besides, the high cost of projecting troops is proving to be unsustainable and it cost U.S. taxpayers around $576 billion in the past five years.