Arab world hails shoe attack as Bush's farewell gift

Iraq faced mounting calls on Monday to release the journalist who hurled his shoes at George W. Bush, an action branded shameful by the government but hailed by many in the Arab world as an ideal parting gift to the unpopular US president. Colleagues of Muntazer al-Zaidi, who works for independent Iraqi television station Al-Baghdadia, said he ''detested America'' and had been plotting such an attack for months...

[priceless: all the while the 'professional' western media fails to point out that Mr. Zaidi would have been killed had he tried such public dissent against
Sadam. Isn't it wonderful how far Iraq has come?]

Btw: George dodge one, deflected the other and even had the presence of mind to notice it was a size 10 ;^) - not bad. Bush later said he saw the man's sole.]

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