Iraqi reporter Muntadar
al-Zeidi hurls his shoes into history -
at President Bush - during
Bush's last press conference in Iraq
as U.S. president. Al-Zeidi is today being hailed as a national
hero by many Iraqis.
Al Iraq News, Iraq
Baghdad Bids Bush
Farewell … With a Journalist's Shoes
"Bush deserves even less than the
two shoes thrown at him by courageous Iraqi journalist Muntadar
al-Zeidi. It was a magnificent farewell gesture that
Bush will remember for the rest of his life - and a news story that the world
will remember year after year."
Baghdad, the
symbol of Arabism; Baghdad of Al Mansur and
Al Rashid and
the capital of free men who, in the shadow of their glorious past, stood
against the invaders, the greedy and the collaborators, has bid farewell to
U.S. President George W. Bush. And it has done so in a manner worthy of that
criminal, who visited us so arrogantly in spite of the deep wounds he inflicted
in his unsuccessful attempt to break the arms of free Iraqis and despite the
fact that a number of midgets chose, for personal reasons, to sail in Bush's
swamp of treachery and thuggery and be blessed in his
putrid waters.
By throwing both
of his shoes at Bush, journalist Muntadar
al-Zeidireflected the
magnitude of the rejection of Bush. The fact is that he deserves no more than
one Iraqi’s shoes, which are of far greater value than George Bush himself. At
least shoes are useful to the one wearing them, while Bush never was and never
will be of service to anyone. On the contrary, he has brought disaster and
misery not only to Iraq, but to all.
Who among us
doesn't remember what Bush’s forces did and continue to do to the Afghan
people; or what they did and still do to the wounded Iraqi people, who count
over a million widows, five million orphans and tens of thousands of disabled,
missing and imprisoned?
Then there was
the infamous Guantanamo internment camp and the scandal of Abu Ghraib prison, the stench of which makes one choke. Bush
was so indescribably brazen, despite his wounds and hands stained with the
blood of Iraqis, as to confess that his war on Iraq was based on mistaken
intelligence and on nothing more than guesses and misinformation rather than
sincere and genuine knowledge.
CHAOS AS PRESIDENT BUSH ATTACKED
WITH SHOES
When reports
arose, accusing Iraq of possessing weapons of mass destruction, Iraq denied
them - a fact that was proven later. Moreover, those same reports [the 2008 U.S.
National Intelligence Estimate] confirmed that Iran had no intention of
acquiring such weapons, despite the expressed intent of Iranian officials to
possess them and their failure to abide by regional and international requests
by many countries in Europe, Asia and America itself.
Bush’s reckless
policies have transformed America from a country that is respected into one
that is humiliated, disrespected and hated by the peoples of all nations, who
see in America an oppressive power who returned the world to the law of the
jungle in which the strong mercilessly, and with a total lack of conscience,
consume the weak.
Bush deserves
even less than the two shoes thrown at him by courageous Iraqi journalist Muntazar Al Zeidi. Even though he
will be leaving in a few days and will not be missed, this was a magnificent
farewell gesture that Bush will remember for the rest of his life - and a news
story that the world will remember year after year. His successor Barack Obama
should be mindful of this Iraqi lesson and act accordingly, so that such an
event is never repeated. Bush tried to absorb this unexpected shock by making
the claim that this was just the price of freedom. But in the eyes of the entire
world, this is just the newest lie of a small and collapsing man.
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