President Bush today ducked a pair of shoes hurled at his head — one shoe after the other — in the middle of a news conference with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.
The shoe attack came as Bush and al-Maliki were about to shake hands. The assailant — later identified as television correspondent Muntadar al-Zeidi — leapt from his chair and hurled his footwear at the president, who was about 20 feet away.
My question to this whole mess is how the bloody hell could the secret service let this happen? where they in the back having donuts while the president was in harms way? i mean what the hell are we paying them for? in a high risk country such as Iraq, one would think they would be all over the place and keeping their eye on everybody.
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But the President always the joker that he is made light of the moment.
"Don't worry about it," the president said as the room erupted into chaos.
"So what if the guy threw a shoe at me?" Bush said, comparing the action to political protests in the United States.
"If you want the facts, it was a size 10," he joked.
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