An Iraqi journalist flung his shoes at Dubya as he addressed a news conference in Baghdad — “”This is a goodbye kiss from the Iraqi people, dog”  reporter Muntadhar al-Zaidi yelled as he hurled the footwear. 

Throwing shoes at somebody is a supreme insult in the Middle East. Iraqis whacked a statue of Saddam Hussein with their shoes after U.S. Marines toppled it to the ground following the 2003 invasion.

It’s
an outstanding video to watch, Dubya ducks as one shoe whizzed over the president’s head and comes up with that stupid grin on
his face, then ducks again and bobs back up ready for a third shot. As much as I
dislike him, I thought he handled it very well, especially his jokes about it.
Too bad the message doesn’t sink in though since it’s not a laughing matter. At
least we’re rid of him soon.

“I don’t think you can take one guy throwing shoes and say this represents a broad movement in Iraq,” he said. “You can try to do that if you want to. I don’t think it would be accurate.”

“It was a size 10″ , “So what if a guy threw his shoe at me?” , “I don’t know what the guy said, but I saw his sole,” he joked.

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