Reply #25: Did you feel that way about the Sons of Liberty and that whole tea-party thing? [View All]

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Bush didn't just offend a few people over there, he lied to start a war that slaughtered a million of their sons, daughters, mothers, fathers, brothers, and sisters. I'm amazed that shoe-throwing is the worst he's faced. If some foreign leader lied about my friends to murder them, I wouldn't spend a lot of time respecting his office or worrying about protocol.

And we frequently protest foreign leaders. We may (though not always) stop short of throwing shoes, but maybe that's because we are able to express our opinions in other ways, whereas in Iraq the right to expression is extremely curtailed.

And anyway, name a country that has lied to start a war to murder a sizable percentage of our people? Do you think if our government welcomed Osama bin Laden to Ground Zero to give a speech that people would restrict their outrage to a few choice editorials?