Did you watch the news on Sunday (yesterday)?

Blimey! You may have just missed out on arguably 'the most amusing spectacle of the G.W Bush presidency'!! 

An Iraqi journalist (Al-Baghdadiya TV, Cairo) hurled his shoes (size '10) at US president George W. Bush at a press conference in Iraq yesterday.  It was really awesome to see wee Georgie-boy duck (twice!) to fend off those (identifiable) flying objects!!

**Bush is known to undertake regular exercise classes but one could not even imagine he had such quick reflexes within his 'self-defence' armoury.

Im no psycho-analyst, but perhaps if someone did lose their family members, relatives and friends in an unjustified war, kidnapped, beaten and tortured by the so-called "liberating forces", one could may well be traumatised... into throwing his/her shoes at 'the leader of the free world'! A man that launched a holy war against (a) nation(s) to liberate it's people from tyranny and oppression!!

In a news conference with Mr Maliki, Iraqi television journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi stood up and shouted "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 also managed to dodge, Mr Zaidi said: "This is for the widows and orphans and all those killed in Iraq."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7782422.stm
 

Muntadar al-Zaidi was quickly wrestled to the ground and hauled away

President Bush dodges two shoes hurled at him by an Iraqi journalist during news conference; Press Secretary Dana Perino injured in melee

BAGHDAD -- His legacy forever linked to an unpopular war, President George W. Bush visited Iraq under intense security Sunday and declared that a long, hard conflict is necessary to protect the United States and give Iraqis hope.

"The war is not over," he said.

Bush got a size-10 reminder of the fervent opposition to his policies when a man threw two shoes at him -- one after another -- during a news conference with Iraq Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.

"This is the end!" shouted the man, later identified as Muntadar al-Zeidi, a correspondent for Al-Baghdadiya television, an Iraqi-owned station based in Cairo, Egypt.

Bush ducked both throws. Neither leader was hit. In Iraqi culture, throwing shoes at someone is a sign of contempt; Iraqis whacked a statue of Saddam Hussein with their shoes after U.S. Marines toppled it to the ground in 2003.

"All I can report," Bush joked of the incident, "is a size 10."

White House Press Secretary Dana Perino, however, was hit in the eye with a microphone as security guards scrambled to restrain al-Zeidi.