I’m sure you’ve heard of this already
but I cannot resist the desire to post this to my blog.
An Iraqi
journalist was wrestled to the floor by security guards after calling
George Bush “a dog” and throwing his shoes, barely missing the
president in the middle of the news conference with Mr Maliki.
Iraqi television journalist Muntadar
al-Zaidi stood up and yelled “this is a goodbye kiss from the Iraqi
people, dog,” before hurling a shoe at Mr Bush which narrowly missed
him. Showing the soles of shoes to someone is a sign of contempt in
Arab culture.
With his second shoe, which the
president......
