"Let me talk about the guy throwing his shoe. It's one way to gain attention. It's like going to a political rally and having people yell at you. It's like driving down the street and having people not gesturing with all five fingers.
"It's a way for people to draw attention. I don't know what the guy's cause is. But one thing is for certain. He caused you to ask me a question about it. I didn't feel the least bit threatened by it.
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Blowing it off like this will make it hard to use this incident as evidence of danger to the rest of us. There isn't enough time to spin this into another stupid security measure that actually lasts. All this is evidence of is that there are people so frustrated in Iraq - educated, professional people just like us - at the irrationality of it all that they ran out of ways to describe it without throwing something. Someone got pushed "over the edge", and hopefully he won't be a political prisoner for long. My America shouldn't do that kind of thing to political protestors. It says so in our constitution.
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