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Secret Service Fail: 9 Excuses for the Iraqi Footwear Incident
Using the evasive maneuvers he learned in the Vietnam war era
Why did it take the Secret Service so long to react to the Iraqi shoe-thrower? Secret Service officials are asking themselves the same thing. But rest assured -- they're gonna get to the bottom of it. "We'll be our own harshest critic regarding this incident" Secret Service spokesman Ed Donovan told McClatchy. Just like their fearless protectee, George Bush, we guess.
While the agency searches for an explanation, here, in the Christmas holiday spirit, are nine excuses they could use...
• We've become so secret, even we don't know about ourselves.
• We were hearing "chatter" about a size 9 attack, but had heard nothing on a size 10.
• The Iraqi dude sort of had a point.
• The agent was finishing his cigarette in the break room.
• In the range of what Iraqis want to do to Bush, a shoe ain't so bad.
• Those ear pieces we wear aren't actually hooked up to anything.
• Bullets are one thing, but nobody ever said anything about taking a shoe for the guy.
• Sure he was a justifiably enraged Iraqi, but he threw like a justifiabliy enraged Iraqi girl.
• Bush has checked out and so have we.
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