Iraqi's have the conviction to do something m. moore always wanted to.
http://www.upi.com/news/issueoftheday/2008/12/15/Iraqi_shoe_protest_bursts_Bushs_bubble/UPI-31941229359805/
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 (UPI) -- In the end, the Iraqi people did not bid farewell to U.S. President George W. Bush with gratitude or wreaths of victory. Instead an individual, unarmed Iraqi threw shoes at him, a traditional demonstration of anger and contempt.
Iraqi cameraman Muntadar al-Zaidi was frisked for any lethal weapons before entering Bush's presence Sunday, but he used his shoes -- the traditional sign of contempt throughout the Arab world -- to humiliate Bush by throwing both of them at him. The American leader who wanted to be remembered as the liberator of Baghdad from the tyranny of Saddam Hussein will instead go into history immortalized on video by ducking to avoid two shoes thrown at him with shouts of "dog." Zaidi works for the Cairo-based al-Baghdadiya television channel. Popular demonstrations have erupted all over Iraq in support of him.
Once again, Bush was taken by surprise by a form of behavior and popular attitudes toward himself that are commonplace and universal across the Arab world. People across Iraq and the Arab world have been throwing shoes at images of Bush for years. His Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has even been nicknamed Kundara -- or "shoe" -- a play on her first name.
Bush's valedictory visits to Iraq and Afghanistan were both studies in irony. He has been forced to reverse the policies he clung to for years in Iraq and leaves his successor, President-elect Barack Obama, a record of neglect, failure and a dangerously deteriorating situation in Afghanistan.
Bush was obsessed with Iraq and neglected Afghanistan for years in his efforts to build a stable, pro-American Shiite-led democracy in Iraq. Yet the first thing the democratically elected, Shiite-dominated government in Baghdad did, once it could stand on its own feet, was to push relentlessly for the United States to withdraw all its combat forces from Iraq.
Bush's last act in office was to sign a Status of Forces Agreement with the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki that made official the policy the U.S. president opposed throughout the four and a half years that American forces occupied Iraq during his presidency -- getting out of the country as quickly as possible.
http://www.upi.com/news/issueoftheday/2008/12/15/Iraqi_shoe_protest_bursts_Bushs_bubble/UPI-31941229359805/
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 (UPI) -- In the end, the Iraqi people did not bid farewell to U.S. President George W. Bush with gratitude or wreaths of victory. Instead an individual, unarmed Iraqi threw shoes at him, a traditional demonstration of anger and contempt.
Iraqi cameraman Muntadar al-Zaidi was frisked for any lethal weapons before entering Bush's presence Sunday, but he used his shoes -- the traditional sign of contempt throughout the Arab world -- to humiliate Bush by throwing both of them at him. The American leader who wanted to be remembered as the liberator of Baghdad from the tyranny of Saddam Hussein will instead go into history immortalized on video by ducking to avoid two shoes thrown at him with shouts of "dog." Zaidi works for the Cairo-based al-Baghdadiya television channel. Popular demonstrations have erupted all over Iraq in support of him.
Once again, Bush was taken by surprise by a form of behavior and popular attitudes toward himself that are commonplace and universal across the Arab world. People across Iraq and the Arab world have been throwing shoes at images of Bush for years. His Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has even been nicknamed Kundara -- or "shoe" -- a play on her first name.
Bush's valedictory visits to Iraq and Afghanistan were both studies in irony. He has been forced to reverse the policies he clung to for years in Iraq and leaves his successor, President-elect Barack Obama, a record of neglect, failure and a dangerously deteriorating situation in Afghanistan.
Bush was obsessed with Iraq and neglected Afghanistan for years in his efforts to build a stable, pro-American Shiite-led democracy in Iraq. Yet the first thing the democratically elected, Shiite-dominated government in Baghdad did, once it could stand on its own feet, was to push relentlessly for the United States to withdraw all its combat forces from Iraq.
Bush's last act in office was to sign a Status of Forces Agreement with the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki that made official the policy the U.S. president opposed throughout the four and a half years that American forces occupied Iraq during his presidency -- getting out of the country as quickly as possible.
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