A courageous Iraqi journalist throws his shoes at President Bush out of contempt for Bush over the Iraq war. Such a shame he misses. Bush Shoe Incident Merchandise! shop.cafepress.com You have to respect this man’s restraint. With over 1000000 Iraqis dead as a result of George’s war, flying shoes are practically flowers and candy. In the middle of the news conference with Mr Maliki, Iraqi television journalist Muntadar 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. 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.” Throwing shoes at someone, or sitting so that the bottom of a shoe faces another person, is considered an insult among Muslims. The Cairo-based al-Baghdadiya TV channel said Mr Zaidi should be freed because he had been exercising freedom of expression – something which the Americans had promised to Iraqis on the ousting of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. The programming director for al-Baghdadiya, Muzhir al-Khafaji, described the journalist as a “proud Arab and an open-minded man”. The brother of the Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at US President George W Bush has said that the reporter has been beaten in custody. Muntadar al-Zaidi has suffered a broken hand, broken ribs and internal bleeding, as well as an eye injury, his older brother, Dargham, told the BBC. Mr …

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