What happened to cream pies?

How weird was the shoe throwing incident in Iraq? I can understand the man’s frustration, but it would never occur to me to throw shoes at the president. How are you supposed to run away from the Secret Service with no shoes? Don’t those people have eggs or whipped cream pies?

Speaking of the Secret Service, where were they by the time the second shoe was thrown? Aren’t they trained to expect the unexpected? Where was Clint Eastwood? He (or his stunt double) would have thrown himself between the president and the second shoe. Where was Steven Segal? If he were around the second shoe would have to be surgically removed from the south end of the northbound reporter.

I’m sure the Secret Service checked the reporters for dangerous objects like sharp pencils and paperclips that could be shot from rubber bands and might put a out a presidential eye. I’m sure they confiscated all the little bottles of hand sanitizer and breath drops no reporter would be without. Who forgot to nail their shoes to their feet?

What will become of the man who threw the shoes? If he did that in our country he would share a cell across from John Hinkley for the rest of his life. I wouldn’t want to be the guy who embarrassed the Iraqi prime minister in front of the U.S. president in Baghdad.

Maybe President Bush will pardon him with an all-expense-paid trip to Guantanamo where the “guests” already wear hospital slippers.

Tom Davis

Marysville