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On 12/15/08, Muhammad Ruslailang <daengru...@angingmammiri.org> wrote: > > macan mati meninggalkan belang... > sudah sewajarnya, budi baik budi buruk kita dikenang orang...semasa hidup, > atau semasa punya kuasa.... > > On 12/15/08, Ardy Arsyad <ardyars...@yahoo.com> wrote: >> >> >> Salam sejahtera buat kita semua, >> >> Pagi2 on kan TV, >> >> eh... ada George Bush dilempari sepatu ama wartawan Irak. >> Begitulah... Bush di akhir masa jabatannya dipermalukan........... >> *"In Iraqi culture, throwing shoes at someone is a sign of contempt"* >> *kalo Saddam Husein, cuma patungnya aja yang dilempari sepatu, si Bush >> ...* >> >> BAGHDAD – On a whirlwind trip shrouded in secrecy and marred by dissent, >> President George W. Bush on Sunday hailed progress in the wars that >> define his presidency and got a size-10 reminder of his unpopularity when a >> man hurled two shoes at him during a news conference in Iraq. >> >> "This is your farewell kiss, you dog!" shouted the protester in Arabic, >> later identified as Muntadar al-Zeidi, a correspondent for Al-Baghdadia >> television, an Iraqi-owned station based in Cairo, Egypt. >> >> Bush ducked both shoes as they whizzed past his head and landed with a >> thud against the wall behind him. >> >> "It was a size 10," Bush joked later. >> The U.S. president visited the Iraqi capital just 37 days before he hands >> the war off to his successor, Barack Obama, who has pledged to end it. >> The president wanted to highlight a drop in violence and to celebrate a >> recent U.S.-Iraq security agreement, which calls for U.S. troops to withdraw >> from Iraq by the end of 2011. >> >> "The war is not over," Bush said, adding that "it is decisively on it's >> way to being won." >> Bush then flew to Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan for a rally with more >> than 1,000 U.S. and foreign troops. "Afghanistan is a dramatically different >> country than it was eight years ago," he said. "We are making hopeful >> gains." >> >> In many ways, the unannounced trip was a victory lap without a clear >> victory. Nearly 150,000 U.S. troops remain in Iraq fighting a war that is >> intensely disliked across the globe. More than 4,209 members of the U.S. >> military have died in the conflict, which has cost U.S. taxpayers $576 >> billion since it began five years and nine months ago. >> There are about 31,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan now, and commanders have >> called for up to 20,000 more. The need is especially great in southern >> Afghanistan, long a stronghold of the Taliban and the place where recent >> spikes in violence have proven the insurgency capable of reasserting itself. >> >> Polls show most Americans believe the U.S. erred in invading Iraq in 2003. >> Bush ordered the nation into war against Saddam Hussein's Iraq while citing >> intelligence claiming the Mideast nation harbored weapons of mass >> destruction. The weapons were never found, the intelligence was >> discredited, Bush's credibility with U.S. voters plummeted and Saddam was >> captured and executed. >> >> "There is still more work to be done," Bush said after his meeting with Iraqi >> Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. >> >> It was at that point the journalist stood up and threw a shoe from about >> 20 feet away. Bush ducked, and it narrowly missed his head. The second shoe >> came quickly, and Bush ducked again while several Iraqis grabbed the man and >> dragged him to the floor. >> In Iraqi culture, throwing shoes at someone is a sign of contempt. Iraqis >> whacked a statue of Saddam with their shoes after U.S. marines toppled it to >> the ground following the 2003 invasion. >> >> White House press secretary Dana Perino suffered an eye injury when she >> was hit in the face with a microphone during the melee. Bush brushed off the >> incident. "So what if a guy threw his shoe at me?" he said. >> >> Al-Maliki, who spoke before the incident, praised postwar progress: >> "Today, Iraq is moving forward in every field." >> After the news conference, the president took a 15-minute helicopter ride >> through dark skies over Baghdad to Camp Victory. Telling hundreds of >> troops he was "heading into retirement," Bush blamed Saddam for the 2003 >> invasion and said, "America is safer and more secure" than it was before the >> war. >> >> Air Force One, the president's jetliner, landed at Baghdad International >> Airport in the afternoon local time after a secretive Saturday night >> departure from Washington. In a sign of security gains in this war zone, >> Bush received a formal arrival ceremony — a flourish absent in his three >> earlier trips. >> Bush soon began a rapid-fire series of meetings with top Iraqi leaders.. He >> met first with Iraqi President Jalal Talabani and the country's two vice >> presidents, Tariq al-Hashemi and Adel Abdul-Mahdi, at the ornate, >> marble-floored Salam Palace along the shores of the Tigris River. Later, >> Bush's motorcade pulled out the heavily fortified Green Zone and crossed >> over the Tigris so he could meet al-Maliki at the prime minister's palace. >> The two leaders signed a ceremonial copy of the security agreement. The Bush >> administration and even White House critics credit last year's military >> buildup with the security gains in Iraq. Last month, attacks fell to the >> lowest monthly level since the war began in 2003. Still, it's unclear >> what will happen when the U.S. troops leave. While violence has slowed in >> Iraq, attacks continue, especially in the north. It was Bush's last trip >> to the war zone before Obama takes office Jan. 20. Obama, a Democrat, has >> promised he will bring all U.S. combat troops back home from Iraq a little >> over a year into his term, as long as commanders agree a withdrawal would >> not endanger American personnel or Iraq's security. Obama has said the >> drawdown in Iraq would allow him to shift troops and bolster the U.S. >> presence in Afghanistan. The new U.S.-Iraqi security pact calls for all >> American troops to be withdrawn by the end of 2011, in two stages. The first >> stage begins next year, when U.S. troops pull back from Baghdad and other >> Iraqi cities by the end of June. Gen. Raymond Odierno, the top U.S. >> commander in Iraq, said Saturday that even after that summer deadline, some >> U.S. troops will remain in Iraqi cities. Journalists and staff who made >> the 10 1/2-hour trip to Iraq with the president agreed to tell almost no one >> about the plans, and the White House released false schedules detailing >> activities planned for Bush in Washington on Sunday. >> . >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> Bersenang-senang di Yahoo! 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