The taste of freedom and the barefoot press corps

On December 14, 2008, Muntazer Al Zaidi, an Iraqi journalist working for Al-Baghdadia of Cairo, was frog-marched barefoot from a news conference in Baghdad after throwing his showes at President George W. Bush. He is described to be anti-American and had already been previously arrested by Amercian troops for other reasons. He was also reportedly kidnapped by Shiite militia men last year, only to be released after intervention by his employer.




The mainstream media had a field day reporting this story, how this journalist is now being viewed as a hero of sorts, and how the shoe-mania is spreading across the Muslim world. What I haven't heard from the mainstream press, however, is why this man was permitted to throw his shoes at the American president in the first place.

If it were not for the new freedom bestowed upon the Iraqi people, that Journalist would not have been able to throw his shoes in disgust at a press conference without any fatal consequences. At least he made it out of there barefoot and alive.

Saddam Hussein's WMD program

On July 5, 2008, the Associated Press (AP) released a story titled: Secret U.S. Mission hauls uranium from Iraq.
The last major remnant of Saddam's nuclear program, a huge stockpile of concentrated natural uranium, reached a Canadian port Saturday to complete a secret U.S. Operation that included a two week airlift from Baghdad and a ship voyage crossing two oceans.
It appears that American troops found the 550 metric tons of uranium in 2003 after invading Iraq. They had to sit on this information and the uranium itself, for fear of terrorists attempting to steal it. It was guarded and kept safe by our military in a 23,000-acre site with large sand beams surrounding the site.


The Bomb in My Garden: The Secrets of Saddam's Nuclear Mastermind
This is an extremely interesting book that makes the case that Saddam was both dillusional and determined to build the bomb. The author, Dr. Mahdi Obeidi describes Saddam's intent to wait out the U.N. and then reconstitute his nuclear program, and he clearly states that Iraq would have been able to deliver a nuclear bomb in only a few months. Watch Dr. Mahdi Obeidi's presentation.


Saddam's Secrets: How an Iraqi General Defied And Survived Saddam Hussein
Authored by Iraqi General Georges Hormiz Sada
He discusses in his book and reported that other iraqi pilots told him that Hussein had ordered them to fly portions of the WMD stockpiles to Damascus in Syria just prior to the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

General Georges Sada's interview on Fox News with H&C concerning Saddam's WMDs and moving them to Syria.

General Georges Sada's interview with Jon Stewart on Iraqi WMD's: