During a press conference in Iraq today, an Iraqi journalist threw his shoes at U.S. President George W. Bush. Bush was there to verbally glorify America’s presence in Iraq in his fourth and final visit to the region.
The U.S. and Iraq have been negotiating the specifics of having American military in Iraq for the past eight months. The new agreement now says that all troops will leave the country by 2011.
The journalist expressed his discontent with the situation, telling the president, “This is a gift from the Iraqis; this is the farewell kiss, you dog.”
Bush quickly ducked and barely missed being conked in the face with the man’s shoes. Here is a video of the incident.
AIDS! AIDS! AIDS! Nothing shines a philanthropic light upon an individual quite like an effort to combat a deadly STD.
This afternoon Tom Lantos and Henry J. Hyde are out proselytizing the American majority’s values, seeking votes to pass their H.R. 5501/S.2731.
Their bill reeks of the right-wing armpit.
Lantos N Hyde mildly distorted the old United States Global Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Reauthorization Act of 2003 , trading out some old passages for newer ones rife with antiquated modes of thought.
Like no one in America has AIDS. Pff. Check out Section 101 (Z). It reads, yada yada yada we want to implement “specific strategies developed to maximize the capacity of health care providers, including faith-based and other nongovernmental organizations, and family planning providers supported by the United States Government to ensure access to necessary and comprehensive information about reducing sexual transmission of HIV among women, men, and young people, including strategies to ensure HIV/AIDS prevention training for such providers.
Uh… Separation of church and state? What happened to that? Civil servants shouldn’t have any clout in religious matters.
Anti-gay, monogamy-promoting, abstinence-glorifying verbage permeate the bill. Part of their “prevention training” includes telling boys don’t drink alcohol, but do mutilate your genitals. You know what they say about foreskin… They’re ransacking 15-million dollars from American taxpayer’s paychecks for this crap. The 48-billion wasn’t enough? Jesus. Can we get some deo on this B-O?
