It was inevitable, but within hours of the incident involving an Iraqi journalist throwing shoes at President Bush during a Baghdad press conference on December 14, video games recreating the event immediately sprung up all over the internet. Most of them are pretty lame, but some of them are pretty creative. A few examples include:
If you have thrown a shoe in outrage over the Iraq War, perhaps you should send these guys a picture of yourself.
Andrew Sullivan writes:
This Christianist president has a hard time with actual Christianity. He is of the fundamentalist psyche that holds that since he is on the side of the angels, he cannot do evil. And so even when presented with indisputable evidence of his own acts, his own memos, his own staff’s decisions, he cannot own the consequences. He asked for memos from apparatchiks saying it wasn’t torture, as if this guaranteed it wasn’t torture. He reacted to the tangible consequences of his own decisions as if someone else had been president, or someone else’s signature was on those memos, or someone else’s vice-president had publicly embraced torture as a “no-brainer.”
Even a president should be held accountable for his biggest lies. Didn’t Richard Nixon teach us that? How easily history is forgotten or simply ignored.
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