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Dick Cheny is not the first Vice President to shoot someone while in office, the honor of being the first in this category goes to Aaron Burr, who was Thomas Jefferson’s VP. He shot Alexander Hamilton to death in a duel, and was severly criticized for being such a fool. Speaking of fools,  I’m damn near positive, that George W. Bush is the first US President to have a pair of shoes thrown at him, unless we count those Bill Clinton days when Monica flung off her high heels while being stimulated with a cigar. 

I was at work when another employee walked up to me and mentioned that GW had been assualted by a hostile Iraqi citizen with a pair of shoes, and he asked, “so whats with the shoes? When they first invaded Iraq, there was the video footage of Iraqis hitting Saddam Huseins statute on the ground with their shoes. Are the shoes some part of a daily ritual”?

I replied, well……mmmm, I guess it must be a cultural thing, Something akin to kicking a fool in the ass without going through the trouble of even raising your foot off the ground. Consider an attacking enemy who gets the whole foot, shoe and all, in the gut, right before the bayonet is driven into his chest. A fool just gets the shoe and nothing more. Or perhaps another interpretation might be, “hit the road jack, heres a pair of shoes to help you leave”.  I have personally experienced the later interpretation in arguments with my wife, and if I was telling an asshole to leave, I just might use the same technique.

But whatever the methodology used for the communication, the interpretation or the size and style of shoes used in the execution of the operation, the message is still the same. And one lone person, just some no account Iraqi Citizen, communicated in a more concise manner, in a few short seconds, than George Bush has in the last eight years. And that small fact is a very  sad thing to say about our Commander-in-Chief. But unfortunately, its time to leave, so lets all get on those shoes or those sand colored boots and get our troops home, or redeploy them to where they can be more effective against terrorsim. But either way, its time to let Iraq deal with her own problems. By the way, when I woke up this morning, the first thing I saw was a news story that indicated that several suspicious packages had been sent to Guard and Reserve Offices, some of which contained inert substances. We obviously have some homegrown issues to consider at this time.

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