I must say that whenever I remember this particular story, and the great fodder it was for the Leftist propaganda machines in the mainstream media, I truly begin to wonder if we shouldn't have just left the Iraqi people to be boiled in oil by Saddaam and to spend time in Uday and Qusay's rape rooms.

For all the thanks we get, I wonder if Pat Buchanan isn't right about isolationism? Maybe we should have just stayed home, made sure that anyone who attacked American interests got a missle up the rear and dealt with the world as we found it. The shoe thrower might have had a son who lost a soccer game, and had his foot cut off by one of the Hussein boys, or his wife might have been raped if wro...

I must say that whenever I remember this particular story, and the great fodder it was for the Leftist propaganda machines in the mainstream media, I truly begin to wonder if we shouldn't have just left the Iraqi people to be boiled in oil by Saddaam and to spend time in Uday and Qusay's rape rooms.

For all the thanks we get, I wonder if Pat Buchanan isn't right about isolationism? Maybe we should have just stayed home, made sure that anyone who attacked American interests got a missle up the rear and dealt with the world as we found it. The shoe thrower might have had a son who lost a soccer game, and had his foot cut off by one of the Hussein boys, or his wife might have been raped if wrote one word incorrectly in an article, but let George Bush come and liberate him from the threat of torture, poison gas, and execution? He throws a shoe. He would probably throw one again, even though if he had thrown one at Sadaam he would have been flayed alive, nailed to a floor, and probably burned to death. Ungrateful SOB, if you ask me. Just like the rest of the world. Just like the safe-at-home American Left, too. Throwing shoes from Hyannisport, Malibu, and the Hamptons.