Iraqi journalist, Muntadar al-Zaidi, showed excellent aim when he threw his shoes at US President George Bush in Baghdad yesterday. I’d need hawkeye, like on the cricket on TV, to confirm it, but I’d say George would have copped at least one shoe fair in the face if he hadn’t have ducked out of the way.
al-Zaidi, an Iraqi television journalist, stood up and shouted "this is a goodbye kiss from the Iraqi people, dog," before hurling a shoe at Mr Bush which narrowly missed him. With his second shoe, he said: "This is for the widows and orphans and all those killed in Iraq." He was then wrestled to the ground and taken away by security personnel. Subsequent reports say he suffered some injuries, including a broken arm and ribs, but it is not clear if these happened during the struggle to restrain him, or later when in police custody.
Showing the soles of shoes to someone is a sign of contempt in Arab culture. The sensitivity is related to the fact shoes are considered ritually unclean in the Muslim faith.
Of course, in the Arab world, al-Zaidi has become something of a hero for for expressing his anger at the Bush administration. In cafes and online chat rooms, people joked about the incident with glee, releasing years of frustration with U.S. policies. Thousands of Iraqis demonstrated in the streets demanding his release from Iraqi custody.
I think president bush was gaining his fame at the end of his presidency.President bush attacked in Iraq ignoring the permission of United
Nations.Though UN is one of the puppet of US. How could president Bush doing
this to Iraqi people?War is not a game.So he get his reward.I hope this will remembered by president bush until his death.I sellout to al-Zaidi.
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Bush has been trained in dodging many things by his VP Dick Cheney …Vietnam conscription drafts, shooting parties, cow crap and his own daughter when she proved to have bigger balls than her father by coming out of the closet.
Now, if Grasshopper Bush can take the shoe from the reporters hand before Mary squats and drops another kid in the stable he could have a cabaret act in Vegas
Wouldn’t it have been funny if the shoe had caught Bush square in the face? I’m amazed this hasn’t happened before.
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Very funny
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I would have loved to have heard an Austin Powers quote from President Bush on this one:
Who throws a shoe? Honestly! You fight like a woman!
Of course, then the feminists would have been up in arms…..
I read in the papers that the shoe(s) thrown at our ‘Bush Baby’ was of size 10. Under the circumstances I would have expected Bush to react differently…see my blog: shoo…shoo…Mr.Bush!